We would like to thank all of the people who gave us constructive input through the blogosphere in the last six months. It is logitically a daunting task and below is draft #1. It includes most of you who left us comments. As we completed it, we realized that we had not followed track backs.
Also, we eliminated any Comments that were not clearly from real humans. If you left an email and no URL, we eliminated the email address, but will restore it upon your request. If we overlooked you, please let us know. There is still time to add names. If you gave us a link and missed you, please also tell us and we will add you in.
Also, this chapter needs to be edited into hardcopy so the links are to the right of your name, rather than hyperlinked.
Acknowledgements
The authors give special thanks and undying gratitude to:
- Howard Israel, for teaching his baby brother a passion for books.
- Charlie O’Brien, an eternal friend and mentor.
- Andy Ruff for having the idea that became Naked Conversations.
- Buzz Bruggeman http://buzzmodo.typepad.com/buzznovation , the Connection King for bringing Scoble and Israel together.
- Dave Winer http://www.scripting.com and Dori Smith http://www.backupbrain.com for getting Scoble interested in blogging to begin with.
- Vic Gundotra http://www.vicgundotra.com for taking a deep business risk on hiring Scoble into Microsoft.
- Loic LeMeur http://www.loiclemeur.com/english, for opening Europe to us, and giving us some of our favorite business stories.
- Six Apart for extraordinary cooperation throughout this project.
- Cluetrain Manifesto’s authors Doc Searles, David Weinberger, Rick Levine and Christopher Lock for inspiring this book long before we dreamed of writing it.
- Ernie Svenson, http://www.ernietheattorney.net/ernie_the_attorney for giving us our funniest moment. As he told us how he loved technology, the phone line went dead.
- Jill Fallon http://www.estatelegacyvaults.com/legacy for contributing the most interesting story that did not fit into our book.
- Brewster, Shel’s loyal companion and Kinko, who shared his workdesk.
- Jim Minatel http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatelfor being a friend as well as an editor.
- Joe Wikert http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe for being right about publishers and authors being partners and for picking up the Valentine's dinner tab
- Faithe Wempen http://wempen.typepad.com/sycamore_notes our copy editor who proved she is well-named.
- Steven Streight http://www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com who posted nearly as many words to our blog as we did.
- To the denizens of the blogosphere of you who left intelligent, constructive and useful comments:
Pete Dawson, http://peterdawson.typepad.com; Adam Barr, http://www.proudlyserving.com ; Al Cannistraro, http://www.happinessgym.com; Alek Komarnitsky http://www.komar.org , Alex Bishop, http://www.mozillazine.org ; Allan Jenkins http://allanjenkins.typepad.com ; Amy Bellinger, http://www.learnandteachonline.com/pmach/weblog.php ; Austin White, http://austinwhite.typepad.com ; DL Byron, http://clip-n-seal.com ; BL Ochman http://whatsnextonline.com ; Bill Riski, http://radio.weblogs.com/0108035 ; Bill Lazar, http://www.billsaysthis.com.
Blaine Moore http://www.runtowin.com ; Brian Bailey http://www.leaveitbehind.com ; Bruce DeBoer http://www.synthesiscreative.com/blog.php ; Christopher Carfi http://socialcustomer.typepad.com ; Constantin Basturea, http://blog.basturea.com ; Curt Hopkins, http://morphemetales.blogspot.com ; Darren Rowse, http://www.problogger.net ; Dave Briggs http://davebriggs.net ;
Dave Copithorne, http://www.hearingmojo.com ; David Tebbutt, http://teblog.typepad.com ; Dick Kusleika, http://www.dicks-blog.com ; DJ Coffman, http://yirmumah.net ; Dossy, http://dossy.org ; Elisa Camahort, http://workerbeesblog.blogspot.com ; Elizabeth Grigg, http://www.egrigg9000.com/mtpub ; Ephraim Cohen, ; Eric Eggertson http://www.mutually-inclusive.typepad.com/weblog ; Eric Schmenk.
Evan Erwin, http://www.misterorange.com ; Gautam Ghosh, http://gauteg.blogspot.com ; Geoff Jones http://www.geoffjones.com ; Hugh Macleod, http://www.gapingvoid.com ; Jack Nork, http://www.mason23.com/jack ; James Cherkoff, http://www.collaboratemarketing.com ; James Governor, http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor ; Jeaneane Sessum, http://allied.blogspot.com ; Jeremy C. Wright http://www.ensight.org ; Jim McGee, http://www.mcgeesmusings.net ; Joel Schultz http://www.joelschultz.com ;
Johan van Rooyen http://www.spanishpodcasting.com ; johnmoore http://brandautopsy.typepad.com ; Johnnie Moore http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog ; Jory Des Jardins http://www.jorydesjardins.com ; Josh Hallett http://hyku.com/blog ; Joshua Allen http://www.netcrucible.com/blog.
Jozef Imrich http://amediadragon.blogspot.com ; Justin Gardner http://www.kozoru.com; Kathy Sierra, http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users ; Ken Dyck, http://www.kendyck.com ; Larry Borsato. http://larryborsato.com ; Larry Hendrick http://www.sanleon.net/blog ; Laura Blaugra http://blaugra.typepad.com ; Lisa Williams, http://www.cadence90.com/wp ; Marc Orchant http://office.weblogsinc.com ; Marc Snyder, http://emm-ess.blogspot.com.
Marcus M. Sommer, http://marcussommer.blogspot.com ; Markus Pirchner, http://www.futurebytes.at ; Michael Kaplan, http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap ; Mike Torres, http://spaces.msn.com/members/mike/PersonalSpace.aspx ; Nancy White, http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/onfacblog.htm ; Nick Toop ; Niti Bahn, http://nitibhan.typepad.com/perspective . Dennis E. Hamilton, http://orcmid.com/blog ; Paul Hanson ; Paul Morriss http://little-bits.blogspot.com ; Paul Woodhouse http://butlersheetmetal.com/tinbasherblog.
Phil Jones http://www.nooranch.com/synaesmedia ; Phil Weber http://www.philweber.com ; Randy Charles Morin http://www.kbcafe.com ; Rich Westerfield, http://tsmi.blogs.com ; Roy Blumenthal, http://schmucknews.blogspot.com ; Russell Beattie, http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook ; Sam Katz; Sarah,http://theeditroom.blogspot.com; Shannon Clark, http://searchingforthemoon.blogspot.com/; Shelley Powers, http://weblog.burningbird.net ; Shital Shah,http://www.shitalshah.com/blog.
Simon Harriyott, http://www.harriyott.com ; Sriram Krishnan, http://blogs.msdn.com/sriram ; Steve Garfield, http://stevegarfield.com ; Steve Newson, http://stevenewson.blogspot.com ; Steve Shu, http://www.steveshu.typepad.com.
Tara Hunt http://www.horsepigcow.com ; Thomas Hawk, http://thomashawk.com ; Tim Aldrich, http://firstdraft.blogs.com/altfunction ; Toby Bloomberg, http://www.bloombergmarketing.blogs.com ; Tom Guarriello, http://truetalk.typepad.com , Tom Raftery, http://tomrafteryit.net/views ; Trevor Cook, http://trevorcook.typepad.com ; Wilson Ng, http://www.bizdrivenlife.net .
Thank you one and all
