Mashable interviews me on stage at Community Next conference

March 30, 2008 By

Mashable’s Pete Cashmore asked his readers for their rudest questions. It made for an interesting discussion about blogging and all sorts of stuff.

Thanks to Noah Kagan for inviting us to do this.

Filed Under: technology industry
  • sudhir

    I can’t get it to work on my N95. Any help?

  • sudhir

    I can’t get it to work on my N95. Any help?

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ SearchEngines

    Search Engines WEB did not ask a rude question:

    When did you discover that your blog had reached the Technorati Top 100…… how did that affect your blog and your life?

    Unfortunately, the audio on the interview as horrible.

    That echo combined with Pete’s accent, made it even the more difficult to understand some of what he said.

    Also, he kept looking away back to a table to study the questions – not the best example of etiquette.

    There was not eye contact at all among any of you.

    Why don’t you share your traffic stats for this blog?
    How many unique visitors do you get daily?
    Where do they come from?
    How much from Search Engines and Social Bookmarking sites?

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ SearchEngines

    Search Engines WEB did not ask a rude question:

    When did you discover that your blog had reached the Technorati Top 100…… how did that affect your blog and your life?

    Unfortunately, the audio on the interview as horrible.

    That echo combined with Pete’s accent, made it even the more difficult to understand some of what he said.

    Also, he kept looking away back to a table to study the questions – not the best example of etiquette.

    There was not eye contact at all among any of you.

    Why don’t you share your traffic stats for this blog?
    How many unique visitors do you get daily?
    Where do they come from?
    How much from Search Engines and Social Bookmarking sites?

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  • http://www.leveragency.com/ bauertim

    Robert, long time reader/viewer … 1st time poster. I went ahead and did a summary and scribble of notes on your talk @ http://timbauer.bauerfive.com/2008/03/30/blogs-money-marketing-andor-relationship … my favorite point was your ongoing press that the blog is about the relationship (author and readers) and how the back and forth takes both to a new level of insight.

    Thanks for your work

  • http://www.leveragency.com bauertim

    Robert, long time reader/viewer … 1st time poster. I went ahead and did a summary and scribble of notes on your talk @ http://timbauer.bauerfive.com/2008/03/30/blogs-money-marketing-andor-relationship … my favorite point was your ongoing press that the blog is about the relationship (author and readers) and how the back and forth takes both to a new level of insight.

    Thanks for your work

  • http://www.michaelrbeck.com/ Michael Beck

    I enjoyed watching the interview broadcast live. Contrary to the comment by @SearchEngines, the interview had more of a “conversation between friends” feel to me, which I enjoyed.

    Not to mention, this was a LIVE interview. Like any interview, the interviewer has notes he works off as the interview progresses. With questions coming from digital sources, Pete’s notes were on his laptop.

    To keep the flow, of course Pete needed to look at his notes while answers were being given. For @SearchEngines to suggest that this was in any way rude, is ridiculous.

    If this was going to be a taped and edited interview, then you would expect to see the seated, well lit interview, with the customary occasional “interviewer nodding in understanding” shot blended in while answers are being given.

    I enjoyed watching the feed live, and especially liked the response when @Scobleizer asked the audience how many were NOT on Twitter… something like only 4% raised their hands!

    I look forward to watching the next one.

  • http://www.michaelrbeck.com Michael Beck

    I enjoyed watching the interview broadcast live. Contrary to the comment by @SearchEngines, the interview had more of a “conversation between friends” feel to me, which I enjoyed.

    Not to mention, this was a LIVE interview. Like any interview, the interviewer has notes he works off as the interview progresses. With questions coming from digital sources, Pete’s notes were on his laptop.

    To keep the flow, of course Pete needed to look at his notes while answers were being given. For @SearchEngines to suggest that this was in any way rude, is ridiculous.

    If this was going to be a taped and edited interview, then you would expect to see the seated, well lit interview, with the customary occasional “interviewer nodding in understanding” shot blended in while answers are being given.

    I enjoyed watching the feed live, and especially liked the response when @Scobleizer asked the audience how many were NOT on Twitter… something like only 4% raised their hands!

    I look forward to watching the next one.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Rudest? That was a lovefest…

    Ruder would be the Valleywag commenters club, rudest would be YouTube/Figg commenters. Unless you define “rude” as “stuff I don’t agree with” or “smart questions that make me look stupid”. But in terms of raw pure rude, YouTube or Diggers sure take the cake. Wisdom of the masses, ahoy.

    Nearly an hour long, shaky cam video and badly-muffled audio with impossible-to-understand Redcostish accents (no extra chage). No one but the 250 would even bother a millisecond.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Rudest? That was a lovefest…

    Ruder would be the Valleywag commenters club, rudest would be YouTube/Figg commenters. Unless you define “rude” as “stuff I don’t agree with” or “smart questions that make me look stupid”. But in terms of raw pure rude, YouTube or Diggers sure take the cake. Wisdom of the masses, ahoy.

    Nearly an hour long, shaky cam video and badly-muffled audio with impossible-to-understand Redcostish accents (no extra chage). No one but the 250 would even bother a millisecond.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    When talking in front of an audience it’s good to look at the audience when you’re speaking.

    The whole shtick of the interview was that Pete was asking questions that were submitted from Mashable, so I didn’t mind him looking at his screen.

    >Why don’t you share your traffic stats for this blog?

    If you ask, I’ll email them to you. WordPress.com doesn’t have a facility to share them with you.

    >How many unique visitors do you get daily?

    I’ll give you my monthly’s:

    February: 428,249
    January: 483,612
    December: 357,357

    >Where do they come from?

    WordPress.com doesn’t share a lot of that data, so I don’t really have a great idea and I don’t really care that much. I know that a link on Digg is worth about 30,000 visitors. One on Reddit is about the same (but the audience is much more intelligent). One on Slashdot, about the same. BBC front page? 10,000. Dave Winer? A few thousand. Valleywag? A thousand. TechMeme? 1,500. But then the Google effect kicks in. I have one of the top links for “Recession” on Google, for instance. That’s been bringing me hundreds of people every day for months.

    >How much from Search Engines and Social Bookmarking sites?

    A lot, but I don’t know the percentages. Fred Wilson just shared his stats and they resonate with my experience too: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/where-my-traffi.html

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    When talking in front of an audience it’s good to look at the audience when you’re speaking.

    The whole shtick of the interview was that Pete was asking questions that were submitted from Mashable, so I didn’t mind him looking at his screen.

    >Why don’t you share your traffic stats for this blog?

    If you ask, I’ll email them to you. WordPress.com doesn’t have a facility to share them with you.

    >How many unique visitors do you get daily?

    I’ll give you my monthly’s:

    February: 428,249
    January: 483,612
    December: 357,357

    >Where do they come from?

    WordPress.com doesn’t share a lot of that data, so I don’t really have a great idea and I don’t really care that much. I know that a link on Digg is worth about 30,000 visitors. One on Reddit is about the same (but the audience is much more intelligent). One on Slashdot, about the same. BBC front page? 10,000. Dave Winer? A few thousand. Valleywag? A thousand. TechMeme? 1,500. But then the Google effect kicks in. I have one of the top links for “Recession” on Google, for instance. That’s been bringing me hundreds of people every day for months.

    >How much from Search Engines and Social Bookmarking sites?

    A lot, but I don’t know the percentages. Fred Wilson just shared his stats and they resonate with my experience too: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/where-my-traffi.html

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ SearchEngines

    Try adding this

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/30/stats-junkies-get-another-fix-woopra/

    or perhaps

    Sitemeter or Statscounter

    They all have plugins for WordPress – some have plugins or hosted versions

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ SearchEngines

    Try adding this

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/30/stats-junkies-get-another-fix-woopra/

    or perhaps

    Sitemeter or Statscounter

    They all have plugins for WordPress – some have plugins or hosted versions

  • http://www.BlackWidowNetwork.com/ Richard Dale-Mesaros

    There’s still a ton of folks out there who haven’t even grasped the concept of how a blog can have a positive influence on their business success – huge kudos to you, Seth and all of the others who GET IT. I can’t wait to see your posts and appreciate being able to stay current as this world evolves.

    We’ve been doing our bit to help real estate investors to harness the ‘new marketing’ and it would be tough without your efforts at the cutting edge.

    Yours with boundless enthusiasm,

    Richard :)

    Chief Deal Weaver
    http://www.BlackWidowNetwork.com

  • http://www.BlackWidowNetwork.com Richard Dale-Mesaros

    There’s still a ton of folks out there who haven’t even grasped the concept of how a blog can have a positive influence on their business success – huge kudos to you, Seth and all of the others who GET IT. I can’t wait to see your posts and appreciate being able to stay current as this world evolves.

    We’ve been doing our bit to help real estate investors to harness the ‘new marketing’ and it would be tough without your efforts at the cutting edge.

    Yours with boundless enthusiasm,

    Richard :)

    Chief Deal Weaver
    http://www.BlackWidowNetwork.com

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    SearchEngines: that stuff does NOT work on WordPress.com which is different from hosting your own WordPress.org instance.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    SearchEngines: that stuff does NOT work on WordPress.com which is different from hosting your own WordPress.org instance.

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ SearchEngines

    http://www.sitemeter.com/ and http://www.statcounter.com/ WORKS on hosted wordpress

    they both came out with a new addon within the past few months

    If javascript is not allowed – you do get an alternate version

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ SearchEngines

    http://www.sitemeter.com/ and http://www.statcounter.com/ WORKS on hosted wordpress

    they both came out with a new addon within the past few months

    If javascript is not allowed – you do get an alternate version

  • http://sevnetus.wordpress.com/ sevnetus

    Uh, can somebody get me a cup of coffee?

  • http://sevnetus.wordpress.com/ sevnetus

    Uh, can somebody get me a cup of coffee?

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  • http://youshoud.com/ you should

    you should consider losing some weight you were wearing formals(tailored trousers) in that interview becuase jeans does not fit you proper.

    video sucked by the way clarity was bad for eyes

  • http://youshoud.com you should

    you should consider losing some weight you were wearing formals(tailored trousers) in that interview becuase jeans does not fit you proper.

    video sucked by the way clarity was bad for eyes

  • http://techleaders20.blogspot.com/ Alex Hammer

    Great interview Robert. You are as articulate and composed as you are knowledgeable. Cashmore seemed, in my opinion, to be a bit too promotional on his part.

  • http://techleaders20.blogspot.com Alex Hammer

    Great interview Robert. You are as articulate and composed as you are knowledgeable. Cashmore seemed, in my opinion, to be a bit too promotional on his part.

  • http://techleaders20.blogspot.com/ Alex Hammer

    I was interested also about your comment in the interview that if one wants to be central to the conversation one must be there in the first 15 minutes, to attain central links etc. (and then the Google audience etc. comes in after that) and the effect that formal editing processes plays within that (basis of the interview question). So much that could be explored there.

  • http://techleaders20.blogspot.com Alex Hammer

    I was interested also about your comment in the interview that if one wants to be central to the conversation one must be there in the first 15 minutes, to attain central links etc. (and then the Google audience etc. comes in after that) and the effect that formal editing processes plays within that (basis of the interview question). So much that could be explored there.

  • http://w3g.exofire.net/ W3G

    Great interview!
    -W3G

  • http://w3g.exofire.net W3G

    Great interview!
    -W3G

  • http://www.sumo.tv/ Shakir Razak

    Hi Robert,

    Thanks for the interview/video, finally got through it all.

    Insightful, but my eyes still hurt -is there any way that a higher res. video can be stored on the device, so that there isn’t just one lowest-common denominator version.

    Some of these video’s are worthy of historical archive, but in the future they’ll be like black & white pictures are to many now.

    I know that forscene.net, that programe from Forbidden Technologies does something like that, but they’re not based in the U.S.

    Yours kindly,

    Shakir Razak

  • http://www.sumo.tv Shakir Razak

    Hi Robert,

    Thanks for the interview/video, finally got through it all.

    Insightful, but my eyes still hurt -is there any way that a higher res. video can be stored on the device, so that there isn’t just one lowest-common denominator version.

    Some of these video’s are worthy of historical archive, but in the future they’ll be like black & white pictures are to many now.

    I know that forscene.net, that programe from Forbidden Technologies does something like that, but they’re not based in the U.S.

    Yours kindly,

    Shakir Razak