Most of us in our organization knew this day would come. His misplaced passion led, in many cases, to evangelizing things that were NOT our business. Perhaps more importantly, his outspoken demeanor left many of us puzzled as to why he even worked here. Clearly his interests lied elsewhere. Well, that time has come, and rather unceremoniously, his office was quietly packed away today, leaving nothing but a desk and empty bookshelves.
Update: Scoble is NOT, I repeat NOT fired. Or even moving somewhere else. It is me, Scoble's next door neighbor, that moved today. The post was written in a third person narrative about _my_ departure, not his. The period at the last sentence is a link to my announcement. Yes, it was written as a sensational piece, but only in the sense of using vague wording to make you _think_ something was happening when it wasn't (Yes, Robert knew I was doing this). But I've caught more hell for this in a short period than Orson Welles did for a similar stunt. (Ok, ok. He had a better production budget. And Steven Spielberg probably won't turn my blog into a big-budget movie).
I promise to make my humor less-subtle in the future. I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog :) .