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Judith Goldberger writes:

Robert Scoble,  (for it is he), is going dark on social media. Here is Silicon Valley this is huge news: he’s a lovable rogue, a teddy bear, your best friend, your tech advisor, your digital analyst for all things tech. And more We wish him well on the road to serenity and sobriety.

Yet, BS readers might be interested to read about the Dublin Web Summit angle:

“Late last year that life started to catch up with him. In November, after returning from a booze-filled trip to the Dublin Web Summit, Scoble announced on Facebook that he’d been sexually abused as a teenager.

More recently, Scoble announced that he had cancer, on his nose. He found this out just as he was about to begin a weekend-long party celebrating his 50th birthday at a winery in Napa.

A few days after the party, Scoble announced that he was an alcoholic and had started going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.”

SO, at a time when there needs to be a mature discussion about alcoholism generally in Irish society, and in the Irish tech industry too, I wonder will the Web Summit respond with less boozy entertainment that we saw at the Night Summit last year? The role of alcohol is militating against diversity cannot be discounted either. What woman wants to hang about with a bunch of tanked up male programmers and startup loud mouths?

READ ON: Robert Scoble In Recovery, Going Dark On Social For Two Months (Gawker)