Microsoft Corp.'s Robert Scoble, a man who you'd be forgiven for thinking the company paid to heap criticism on it, is leaving the software giant to join a video blogging start-up called PodTech.net.
Scoble was a "technical evangelist" and strategist for Channel 9, a Web site created two years ago to strengthen ties between Microsoft and software developers. Channel 9 is one of the de facto
sources of Microsoft gossip for programmers and tech geeks seeking information about perennially delayed projects like Windows Vista. When asked why he thought Microsoft didn't mind his public
criticism, Scoble said Bill Gates "loves arguing out ideas," appreciating the fact that ideas can change the world. "How are you going to get the best ideas from 60,000 people? Let an idea get out in
the public square and let people talk about it," Scoble said. Scoble leaves Microsoft at the end of the month to join PodTech as vice president of media development.
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