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As you might have noticed, I have been posting interviews lately with some of the shakers of the Web and tech industries. This is something I started doing a while back and chances are, even if you are a dedicated Technmarketing reader, you missed some of my interviews. Many people have asked me for an organized and updated list of everyone I interviewed, so here it is. I will be updating the list as I interview more people.
There are not many websites and authors who I can say directly affected and inspired me to start blogging, but over the past few months, I have been fortunate enough to interview almost all of them. People like Walt Mossberg of the Wall St. Journal, David Pogue of the NY Times, and MG Siegler of TechCrunch are just a few examples.
By now, we all know that “Geek” is the new “Cool”, and I have met my share of geeks in my time, but David Pogue is on a whole new level. David has been writing a weekly personal technology column for the New York times since November, 2000. He also writes a monthly tech column for Scientific American. In addition, David is a featured guest on various TV shows including his CNBC appearances every Thursday, CBS Sunday Morning, and his show “Making Stuff” on PBS.
Twitter, with all its shortcomings, is truly a revolutionary platform. Why do I say that? Not because of the the active role it played in the world’s most recent revolutions. I am also not saying it because of the major world events for which the news first broke on Twitter. I am talking from a personal perspective. The people I have had the chance to meet and even interview, are people I would never ever have had the opportunity to connect with, had it not been for this platform.
Someone has to seriously put an end to this insanity. The problem with the Web in general is that everything is black and white. It is either great or terrible. This is true about so many industries. Take for example the mobile space. Every phone that comes out is either an “iPhone Killer” or it is so 2010 and does not belong in a market with the iPhone. Is there no middle ground?
One of the things I try to do here on this blog, is interview people who have inspired me and many others in the online world. My interviews include Guy Kawasaki, Walt Mossberg, Robert Scoble, Gary Vaynerchuk, Chris Brogan, Mike McCue, Alyssa Milano, Peter Vesterbacka, Ben Parr, and many more. All of the interviews were done via email, as in I send the questions over email and get the responses over email. However, my latest interview was a little different.
As time goes by and I spend more time on Twitter, two things seem to be happening. On the one hand, I am finding that the number of great people and amazing relationships I build on a daily basis, is only growing. As more people join Twitter and the micro blogging service hits the mainstream, I am regularly meeting new folks that are not necessarily part of the “early adopter” community, and that is great. On the flip side, more and more people are talking about Twitter and its explosive potential, which results directly in people trying to manipulate the system.
This post is somewhat of a rant. As a person who pretty much lives on the Web, I am very exposed to the power of social media. Having said that, I think by now, that topic is pretty much covered from all angles. What is not covered and what people like to brush under the carpet, are the potential down sides and even outright dangers accompanied by the advancements that social media bring.
After all this time, some things never change when it comes to the Web and social media. While it has penetrated the corporate world on levels we would never have imagined five years ago, social media is still a buzz word companies and people throw around without really understandING what it is about. The errors are on both side of the spectrum and some do not appreciate the power of the social Web while others overplay it. Here are some examples…
The Web is filled with blogs on almost every topic. Tech blogs specifically are a dime a dozen, but there is the elite group of tech outlets that truly stand out from the crowd, Mashable leads the pack. Started by Pete Cashmore in his garage in Ireland, it is not ranked as one of, if not the top tech blog on the interwebs. As a person who has guest blogged for Mashable a few times, I can safely say they deserve the popularity.
If you were online yesterday, you most likely heard that Facebook held an event in their headquarters to make some big announcement. After the resulting rumors by every leading online publication, Facebook announced three new features.
