Personally I think agile is best thought of as a broad church of methodologies rather than anything concrete to adhere to, and especially I think the sprint approach isn't always suited to business needs.
But a generally agile approach I think is good, and I think daily stand-up meetings are good for communication even without sprints or a maintained backlog.
Either way, daily stand-ups are the worst thing about scrum especially when they are hijacked by PMs. I'm yet to meet a develop who'd look forward to stand-ups. I know they exist somewhere :-)
If you are curious about what other people (you don't talk to a lot) are working on then Hubot is a good solution. Hubot has a great plugin to let you share what you are working on without having to deal with stand-ups.
The one thing about stand ups that I find to be a profound waste of time is reporting what you've done. Isn't that what SVN / GIT / JIRA / etc is for?
SVN/GIT commit messages and Trello/JIRA notifications sent to Slack/Hipchat/YourInternalIrcServer are a great way to aggregate all that information. You can write a Hubot/YourOtherChatBot plugin to gather and summarize that information to make it even easier to track.
By the way, with Hubot you can just say "What everybody is working on?" and it will show you the status for everybody.
And if I had to pose as Scrum Master, every incentive would push me to intentionally propagate cultishness. (Better than those unaware they're doing it, because at least I can turn it off on a dime as the situation requires.)