Scoble makes a good point

Friday, January 04, 2008 by Dave Winer.

Just got off the phone with Scoble. 

He told me about a blog post he just put up, entitled Erased. 

He says something really simple. When Facebook had an issue with him, they erased his presence. All traces of Scoble were gone from Facebook. 

They could have frozen his account leaving his presence as-is until they could figure out what to do about it. 

Why is it up to Facebook to decide whether or not Scoble's presence exists or not, and is this a good place to be. 

BTW, we want to do a podcast from our phone conversations. I'd love to use Twittergram, but we're limited there to 30 seconds. I wanted to use BlogTalkRadio for this, but their service does so much more than we want. I'd like to try something other than Utterz, so if you know of something, please let either Scoble or myself know. 

Think of it as Trade Secrets 2.0. 

It's the same idea that got me doing a podcast with Adam Curry in 2004. We were having interesting private phone conversations where we'd get around to saying sheez why the fuck aren't we recording this stuff. Scoble and I are at the same place the last few months. 

So if you know of something, or if you can convince the BTR guys to give us the service we want (that would be my first choice) please let me know.