Photo credit: JD Lasica - Robert Scoble and his wife Maryam

Robert Scoble, arbiter of all that is cool in the tech startup scene, has some advice for you. What’s that? What do you mean you don’t want to hear it?!

@marshallk launching a non-gadget tech startup the night before CES is pretty stupid, if you ask me. about 10 hours ago from web in reply to marshallk

Guess what, Scobie- HE DIDN’T ASK YOU!

@Scobleizer no offense intended but IMHO your strong opinions about what’s stupid aren’t your most valuable contributions to conversation about 10 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to Scobleizer

Ah yes. Marshall has now joined a growing club of people basically telling Scoble to shut his hole about things he knows nothing about. As usual, of course, it didn’t work:

@marshallk no offense taken. I just think that releasing news this week is going to be like swimming up stream. But that’s just me. about 10 hours ago from web in reply to marshallk

Um..yeah it’s pretty much just you, El Rotundo. Most people think releasing tech news during a tech conference is a neato idea. Not that it matters anyway for this startup:

@Scobleizer in this case founder is super engineer & helped start FBook, so I suspect publicity neither anxiously sought nor worried about about 10 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to Scobleizer

Zing! Suck it, Scoble! Pretty sure that company isn’t going to hurt for publicity. I love how more and more people who know what they are doing are starting to call Scoble out on his stupidity. I have never understood why anyone listens to him in the first place. It’s like he got lucky one time and stumbleed his way into a job with some cred, and since then people take his opinions seriously because well, people did that once and it’s sort of a habit.

No one seems to notice his opinions are idiotic and unwanted, it’s Robert Scoble, and for some reason we all listen to him! It’s horribly sad for people who aren’t really part of tech – they don’t realize how much the tech scene is some kind of Shinto nation where the five selected people are worshipped as gods no matter whether they deserve it or not. That’s how ignorant windbags like Scoble keep getting quoted. It needs to stop already.

Paul Carr, renowned author, is writing another book. No, he totally is. He’s going to wrap it up any day now. He means it! He’s going to finish that book right after he does this thing, or something. Then he’ll finish. He swears!

Tappity tap tap tap. I swear next week I’m going to have my deadlines back in some kind of order. #probably 4:43 PM Jan 3rd from Seesmic

OH: “It’s not difficult: just keep typing until you’ve finished, you lazy hack.” (I’m in my hotel room on my own) 10:57 PM Jan 3rd from Seesmic

Heading to brunch – and then a whole day of writing ahead. #nosleeptillepilogue about 10 hours ago from Seesmic

Taking forever to get into a stride today – looks like I’ll be writing all night tonight. I mean, it worked for Proust, right? about 3 hours ago from Seesmic

I guess Arrington had heard enough of Carr’s bullCrap at that point,  and just wants him to shut up about it already:

@paulcarr please finish your dang book so we don’t have to listen to you procrastinate any longer. about 2 hours ago from Tweetie

All he and Lacy talk about is how they are working on their books. WE GET IT. You are writing a book, one you seem to think will be on par with something produced by Proust, but in reality will be in the Big Lots bargain bin within 3 months.

I wish they would both just shut the up about how they are writing books already. Less talking about your Crapty books, more improving your writing so your books won’t be Crapty. Ok sweeties? Thanks.

For a while now, you’ve all seen me rave about Rachel. It’s not because David Karp is her boyfriend. Before I knew she was dating The Amazing Karpov I used to love her Library Sciences blog. She posts a lot of cool old photos and quotes, and it was always such fun to read.

Then I find out she’s a vegan chef (heard this through a fifth hand party, may be inaccurate) and I think “dang, where was she when I was trying to be vegan?” Not that she could keep me away from Franzia and velveeta (not vegan) but maybe would’ve opened up some new vistas in vegan cuisine for me.

I almost hate to post this. It’s so kissass. But I just think Rachel is a superstar and so adorable. She’s just unsnarkable. She’s cute and funny and like what you really wish an American Apparel ad would be in real life if they didn’t all look like a Fiona Apple video. I know, I know, this is what gushing sounds like. Total girl crush. I don’t care if Karpov disappears from her life or marries her – things like this make it clear that the true star of this tumblr power couple is Rachel!

And shut up, you know you want to hang out with her, even if you want to tell her what a vegan hipster douche you think she is. She seems cool and gracious and nice, and would probably have a great comeback to your insult.

Rachel, I say…stay!

ps: like the Lisa Loeb ref there in the last line? yeah? ok, I know. I’m going back to my wine now.

Robert Scoble, “tech journalist“, has posted his startups to watch article for 2010. He carefully combed the internet and investors to find the startups that are really providing something unique, valuable, and cash-makeable. Or, he just told startups to email their press releases and he slapped the article up:

So, my hot startups to pay attention to in 2010 post http://bit.ly/5cdQ4s is up. If you are a startup & wanna be on next 1, drop me a line! 13 minutes ago from web

Other predictions include such staggering insights as “Trend? That we’re going to share even more info with public in future than we can ever imagine.” You know, because sharing every breath and piss someone takes on twitter isn’t enough info out in public. Now everyone needs to know that you bought Plan B from an online pharmacy on Monday morning, and tampons from drugstore.com 30 minutes later (bortches please, like you never freaked out prematurely.) Now everyone needs to know your every plan for the foreseeable future. You know what else the world needs? More ways to create iphone apps.

Hey corncob, just because another website says a startup is cool, and the CEOs email you and dazzle you with some powerpoint doesn’t mean you need to feature them. You’re up to how many now? Pick ten unique startups, not 20 iphone app sites, 10 payment systems, etc, edit edit edit, repost it. Right now it reads like an old Yahoo! category list of links.

OMGBEARS McCarthy, future frantic user of IVF, hates your loud ass kids!

Dear upstairs neighbors’ kid: You’ve been screaming and crying for a half hour straight. Aren’t you getting tired of it by now? Yes? Please? about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck

Listen you entitled yuppie larvae: Bears is TIRED. She works all day doing something. She wants to be able to come home and relax with that youtube channel of cats on roombas without hearing your screeches.

Seriously, little ones…you should probably knock it off. This is the face of a woman who snacks on children while they dream about puppies. Nobody wants that to happen. Thank you for understanding (and shut the hole up).

“I’ll never get bored with you. You’re terrifying.”

— Rachel

Unsubstantiated rumor time! You know how we here at GOMIBLOG love to whisper all kinds of dubious stories over our cubicle walls when we should be doing journalisty things. Well here’s one a lil pine cone shaped head passed on to me: David Karp wants to propose to Rachel!

I hope it’s true. Can you imagine all the tumblwhore suicide threats from the David Fan Club? And omg they will be the Trumps of Tumblarity. Or ya know, some other power couple. Hipster Brangelina!

This is a total rumor so if it’s true and I ruined some surprise, well, whatever. I doubt it’s true but it’s hilarious to contemplate these two exchanging vows over formspring.

thatgirlallison, yawn farmer, has had an ah-mazing year. She set the media social scene on fire, blazing through parties and securing her place as That Sorta Chunk Chick In The Pepto Tights.

She posted a long pointless recap of her glorious aught nine. Here are some highlights:

May: I go to Sweet and Vicious for the first Obliterati but end up leaving right away and head into an event across the street, where I meet Jonn and we go to my first Gawker HQ party.  Fun!  The Webutante Ball was this month too, I believe.

June:  Go to the second Obliterati with Dylan, and meet a bunch of cool people, including O’Leary, Tim, etc for the first time.  I meet a guy there and date him for a month or so before cutting him off after he disrespects me.  I go to the TONYs for a second year in a row and with my three fabulous TONY friends, we go to the HAIR afterparty at Tavern on the Green.  Epic!  Oh yes, Destination opens and sobriety ends for me.

October:  Halloween party in Brooklyn!  I dress up as nothing, but it is later coined as “non-descript whore.”  The last week in October is truly a week of nothing but partying and drinking.  I see a bunch of shows thanks to the ‘Pick a Tix’ booth at the Flea Market the month prior.

November:  Blip.TV party in Tribeca!  Thanksgiving happens.  Obliterati post-pones until December.  I begin to hate having this blog and realize that I’m not as much of an oversharer as I used to be.

Some other stuff about how she lost her job and got another job, met an ex at a singles party, went on a bunch of dates, it snowed in December, and she’s starting therapy in January. As you can see, thatgirlallison is gearing up to take 2010 by storm! This girl is poised for tumblr fame. I predict everyone will have heard of her by the end of this year. I mean, she hung out with Brian Van in September. She is unstoppable. I wish I were her. 2010 for the win!