I wasn’t actually planning on commenting on this. I mean, Scoble’s going to get enough accolades and such today that he doesn’t need any from me. Except that I feel he does, because over the last 2 years I’ve been blogging I’ve come to love and hate Scoble.

Okay, I’ve never loved or hated him, but I have a lot of respect for him. Initially I thought he was pretty cool just for being a blogger. Then I thought he didn’t deserve his position as an A-Lister. Now I realise it doesn’t matter. I think in one way Robert and I are very similar: I don’t really think we care about how many readers we have.

I know that I care about my readers. Where they’re at. What they think of my thoughts, etc. But I’d be blogging even if I had none because I love to blog and it’s simply become an extension of the way I think. I’m sure some people will see this live at my Northern Voice panel in February: I’ve started thinking in blocks of thought. Blog thinking, if you will.

Okay, it’s more like Open Source Thinking. I’ll toss an idea out, talk around it for a few minutes, wait for feedback, keep talking and eventually refine the idea to where it’s what I actually think.

I’ve only recently realised this is also how I blog.

Whether blogging has affected my thinking, or whether I always thought that way and simply drew the connection recently doesn’t matter.

What does matter is that as of today, Robert James Orwell Scoble has been blogging for 4 years.

I thought it’d be fun to go back and see the first time I wrote about Scoble. Okay, it wasn’t.

Nothing terribly enlightening. But, it’s odd how many times I have written about, targetted or talked about Scoble. He’s someone I’m looking forward to meeting next year, not because I necessarily worship him (anymore) but because I feel a sort of… Dunno, connecti0n? That sounds too stalker-esque.

Ah well, maybe I’ll figure it out later.

Either way, this is probably the longest “happy blogday” post he’ll find. Scoble, when you read this, feel free to hop on MSN. I have a 20 second question to ask you ;-)