"I find whether or not someone tells me that a tool that I use, frequently, and get great results from is both dead and useless a real red flag for judging a tech journalist competent or not. The second really huge red flag is the suggestion that "if only a social network had more content like Facebook, it would be more successful," because Facebook has never been a site I go to in order to get quality content. Facebook is the "drive slowly by a car wreck" of the social space; the spectacle is the only reason you drop-in. Of course, by that measure Scoble becomes clearly the asshat in this discussion; he's never met a Google product he ever liked. Don't worry though, in six months the tech journalism churn-industry will get around to breaking out the next "Google+ is dead – isn't Facebook awesome?" template-perfect articles and will keep doing what we've been doing the same time, connecting with interesting people who have things that we want to hear on subjects that we care about." - Alexander Williams