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| Author | Content |
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| mcady Sep 22, 2009 6:55 PM EDT |
The only interview I can remember that ever made me nervous... and we are still waiting on his pants. |
| tuxchick Sep 22, 2009 11:42 PM EDT |
Pants? You de-pantsed Mark Shuttleworth? How wacky! I bet you could auction them off for a nice fund-raiser. OK I'll listen to the show, thanks to your clever teaser. Fiends. BTW there is no link to the show. |
| Scott_Ruecker Sep 22, 2009 11:47 PM EDT |
Here it is Carla..sorry about that. http://www.gutsygeeks.com/audio/listen.php?show_id=86&code=4... |
| tuxchick Sep 23, 2009 12:14 AM EDT |
Thanks Scott. I wonder about the pants... |
| tuxchick Sep 23, 2009 1:22 AM EDT |
Ok I listened. Good show, though enough of the suckup already. "Ooo mark we worship you!" ;) I hope you specified outerpants. |
| tracyanne Sep 23, 2009 4:44 AM EDT |
After wading through a bunch of boring self congratulatory banter and ads, I finally got to the interview. Well actually, got so bored with the banter that I fast forwarded until I go to the interview, which as it turned out was quite unexceptional, and told us nothing we could not have read a dozen times already. I don't think I'll bother next time the not so gutsy geeks are linked to. |
| Scott_Ruecker Sep 23, 2009 1:56 PM EDT |
Wow Tracy, you really thought it was that bad? I am sorry. |
| TxtEdMacs Sep 23, 2009 2:04 PM EDT |
Scott, No!!! You truncated her post, that was the positive half. YBT |
| Steven_Rosenber Sep 23, 2009 2:17 PM EDT |
As a journalist of sorts myself, I can vouch for the trouble you get when you run into a "rock star" type of interviewee. My main gig has never been conducting interviews, but I've done them with everyone from murderers (they always say they didn't do it; talk to them long enough and you'll start to believe them) to Ann Landers (sweetest lady ever ... and yes, I did ask about her feud with twin sister Eppie/Dear Abby). The key with a guy like Shuttleworth is to have questions planned out in advance. Even if you get off-track for one reason or another, you have a roadmap to get you back on track. I'm also a big fan of pre-taping and then editing. Personally, the worst thing in journalism I see are those live interviews on the network morning-news shows with "in the news" regular people that are "gets" for the various shows ("Today," "Good Morning America," etc.). The people aren't accustomed to being interviewed, they're sitting in the living room with a crew and remote questions coming from a host who's trying like mad to draw them out of their "normal-guy/gal" shell. It just makes me nervous. It's better to either interview people who are "used to it," or do those interviews pretaped and cut together the good stuff later. I won't call it ironic, because it's not, but one of the easiest kinds of interviews (in a way) is with a member of the Church of Scientology. They're trained to look at your writing hand; when you start writing, they stop talking and don't start again until you stop writing, lest you miss anything they're saying right now when you're writing down something they said previously. This is getting way OT ... but I'm sure Shuttleworth (and Jono and RMS and ESR and anybody else known by a single name or acronymically) must know that while they're rock stars in the open-source world, the other 99.99 percent of the planet doesn't know they exist. So it's a quixotic kind of fame if you buy into it. Maybe Linus has some traction outside the FOSS community. But not like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, who are pretty much pop-culture figures at this point. And no, Ballmer ain't there yet. (p.s. can you tell the coffee is flowing?) |
| tracyanne Sep 23, 2009 5:35 PM EDT |
Well actually Scott, yes. In my day job I used to have to put up with similar twaddle on a daily basis (thankfully we've hired someone to do that now, and I don't have to put up with it), where well known people in the fitness industry (well known in the fitness industry) do similar "in depth" interviews with "rock star" fitness gurus. The introductions, although better scripted, are of the same type of superlative driven, self congratulatory (look moi, look moi) banter, thankfully most of the time these fitness industry interviews are scripted, and do rather get to the point, even though they are filled with the same sickening ingratiating dribble. Somehow I expected better, but got worse. Based on what I heard on the Gutsy Geeks podcast, I'm not sure if their aim is to entertain or inform,... they did neither very well, and to my Australian ears came across as a couple of wankers. |
| TxtEdMacs Sep 23, 2009 6:29 PM EDT |
Ok, TA quit holding back, let's get to the criticism part. Stop with the nice words, though I understand you don't want to offend the jerks, since you heard you are on the list to be interviewed. Now come on, deliver the straight, unvarnished goods. Your Buddy Txt. (aka YBT) |
| Steven_Rosenber Sep 23, 2009 7:30 PM EDT |
While I've taken a few-weeks break from listening to podcasts, I've listened to many in the past few months that focus on Ubuntu, and it's hard for the hosts to check their fanboy decoder rings at the door. There's a lot of praise and "that's cool," and a lot less constructive criticism about the distro. |
| gus3 Sep 23, 2009 8:08 PM EDT |
@Steven: I've been using Ubuntu Netbook Remix off and on for a few months now. It's difficult for me not to share in the fanboyism, which is unusual for me, being a Linux user for 11 years and counting. When I'm not running UNR on the Eee, I'm running Slackware. |
| Steven_Rosenber Sep 23, 2009 8:33 PM EDT |
What, Slackware Netbook Remix isn't good enough for you? |
| gus3 Sep 24, 2009 2:35 AM EDT |
Point me towards it, and I'll definitely give it a spin. /me ducks |
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