I really haven’t been following Robert Scoble for very long.

Last week I started following all of the top 25 Twitterers found on Twitterholic.

It took a post from Jason Calacanis to even get me to Scoble’s blog today.

On his blog, Scoble basically said that most of the websites showcasing at DEMO 2008 pretty much suck. (DEMO 2008 is a show for startup web companies.) Anyone even remotely interested in marketing on the web needs to read this post right now.

Startups Your Web Site Sucks

Once you’re done, click on to the next post that says “Scoble Sucks“, too. I want you to see the kind of heat Robert Scoble got for speaking his mind. And most importantly — I want you to see how he handles the heat. This is a really great example about how to properly keep the conversation going.

Anyway, alot of the ’startup community’ is pissed at him for saying those sites sucked - some even saying things along the lines of “I thought you were our guy” or “I thought you had our back” or whatever.

Man, the ‘Scoble Haters’ are totally missing the freaking point!

From where I sit — Robert Scoble just did those Startups a huge freaking favor. He pretty much gave them harsh hyper-critical advice that’s probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to them if they quickly put it into action. Hell, you can’t even buy this type of criticism.

Alright. Go read those two posts now and when you’re done reading the two Scoble posts, I’d really love to hear what you think. Let me know your thoughts on this.

Harris Fellman
The Weekly Buzz