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Article: HIGH-TECH EVANGELIST MAKES BLACKSBURG STOP [Corrected 06/09/09]

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Huey Ly, a software developer in Blacksburg, was asked how he would sum up the visit to the town Friday by Robert Scoble, the California blogging pioneer and technology evangelist.

"Blacksburg gets star geek," he said.

That's no exaggeration.

Rackspace Hosting Inc., an Internet services company based near San Antonio with major operations in Blacksburg (where Ly works), recently hired Scoble.

Friday, he showed up to take a look around at the division offices and share his latest musings on the evolution of the World Wide Web.

Scoble, 44, travels extensively in pursuit of what he calls stories of innovation on the Web, producing blog entries, videotaped interviews and myriad Web reports ...

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