Just looking for people’s feedback. I’ve done some interviews with rather big-time tech folk, and I was thinking it might be fun to get them in and interview them on something other than what they are famous for.
As a for instance, I think it’d be useless to interview Jeffrey Zeldman on web standards. Everyone does it, and there’s only so many times you can ask “so, when is Microsoft going to get the picture” before it gets tiring.
It would be much more fun to interview him about, for instance Mac/PC, Open and Closed Source integration, paradigm of the web as an application, etc.
Likewise, it would be interesting to interview Steve Balmer on the user experience, Bernard Liautaud on media convergence, etc.
I’ll likely end up doing this anyways, because I think it’s fun, but it’s always good to gauge interest anyways. So, if you’re interested, comment. I’d like to have some fun!
#1 by Stephan Segraves - June 23rd, 2003 at 21:47
Sounds like a good idea to me! Maybe I could get a few of my Microsoft contacts to come in and do an interview as well.
#2 by Jeremy C. Wright - June 24th, 2003 at 10:21
That’d be fun
Want to give it a go? I think it’ll take Jeffrey a couple of days to get back to me, it normally does
J
#3 by Stephan Segraves - June 24th, 2003 at 10:58
Sure. I shoot some people some e-mails and see how many respond =)