Comments on: What a great start to 2008 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/ Enabling a Reliable, Consistent and Trusted Experience Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:15:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Shane http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-277565 Shane Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:20:25 +0000 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-277565 Well done Paul and I’m glad no anxieties have arisen from the high expectations cast upon you... (Apologies for drawing attention away from you here with this one) but on the note of watchfulness worthies for 2008... Are you aware of bigthink.com??? A new networking site that aims to mix interviews with public intellectuals from a variety of fields, from politics, to law to business, and allows users to engage in debates on issues like global warming and the two-party system. It plans to add new features as it goes along, including a Facebook-like application for social networking. Site co-founder Peter Hopkins said he would like the site to become a popular place for college students looking for original sources. The interview style, which Big Think’s founders said was derived from a technique used by filmmaker Errol Morris, places the interviewer in an even smaller closet, behind a shower curtain, hidden from the subject and making the person asking the questions almost an afterthought. The subject hears the questions from a closed-circuit monitor. The finished product even eliminates the interviewer’s voice, and the questions appear as text on the screen. The goal is to not create a confrontation between interviewer and interviewee, or goad the subject into saying something provocative (but if it happens, that is a bonus.) In debt report: http://news.websitegear.com/view/35054 Do you believe this is a site worthy of been this year’s success storey? (next to you of course :) Well done Paul and I’m glad no anxieties have arisen from the high expectations cast upon you…

(Apologies for drawing attention away from you here with this one) but on the note of watchfulness worthies for 2008…

Are you aware of bigthink.com???

A new networking site that aims to mix interviews with public intellectuals from a variety of fields, from politics, to law to business, and allows users to engage in debates on issues like global warming and the two-party system. It plans to add new features as it goes along, including a Facebook-like application for social networking. Site co-founder Peter Hopkins said he would like the site to become a popular place for college students looking for original sources.

The interview style, which Big Think’s founders said was derived from a technique used by filmmaker Errol Morris, places the interviewer in an even smaller closet, behind a shower curtain, hidden from the subject and making the person asking the questions almost an afterthought. The subject hears the questions from a closed-circuit monitor.

The finished product even eliminates the interviewer’s voice, and the questions appear as text on the screen. The goal is to not create a confrontation between interviewer and interviewee, or goad the subject into saying something provocative (but if it happens, that is a bonus.)

In debt report: http://news.websitegear.com/view/35054

Do you believe this is a site worthy of been this year’s success storey? (next to you of course :)

]]> By: Peter Alan http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-269356 Peter Alan Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:11:05 +0000 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-269356 Where's Sethi. He needs to be watched!! He told a friend of mine that he is setting up an association. Something to like the Interactive, Mobile, Media, Marketing and Mashup association. If true, you have to give him credit for optimism. Where’s Sethi. He needs to be watched!!

He told a friend of mine that he is setting up an association.

Something to like the Interactive, Mobile, Media, Marketing and Mashup association. If true, you have to give him credit for optimism.

]]> By: blending the mix » Blog Archive » 2008 - already a better year than 2007 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-268218 blending the mix » Blog Archive » 2008 - already a better year than 2007 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:34:37 +0000 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-268218 [...] as I guess many others do, but for someone of Damien’s stature (Paul Walsh says it best here) to recognise my occasional rants as worthy of note is truly [...] [...] as I guess many others do, but for someone of Damien’s stature (Paul Walsh says it best here) to recognise my occasional rants as worthy of note is truly [...]

]]> By: john conroy http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-268214 john conroy Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:31:29 +0000 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-268214 I came here (subscribed) through a blog post that recommended you (during xmas) on.... I think it was Techcrunch?? Gr8 blog guys- keep it up. (ps I'm a contributor at CMSWire.com) I came here (subscribed) through a blog post that recommended you (during xmas) on…. I think it was Techcrunch?? Gr8 blog guys- keep it up.
(ps I’m a contributor at CMSWire.com)

]]> By: Paul Walsh http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-268040 Paul Walsh Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:37:14 +0000 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-268040 Thanks Paul - looking forward to seeing you at another event soon :) Thanks Paul - looking forward to seeing you at another event soon :)

]]> By: Paul Fabretti http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-267812 Paul Fabretti Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:44:04 +0000 http://segala.com/blog/what-a-great-start-to-2008/#comment-267812 It's well deserved mate and if you don't know it, you should. You do more promotional work by being part of the communities you serve than anyone I know. It’s well deserved mate and if you don’t know it, you should. You do more promotional work by being part of the communities you serve than anyone I know.

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