Board favorite grants interview to lowly blog

[thebiglead]

We used some of your tips from the Simers thread. Thanks for them.

http://thebiglead.com/?p=996

 

[Freelance Hack]

No questions about Chris' own ass goiter surgery?

 

[Point of Order]

Who is this dastardly devil? Neat hearing from him.

 

[thebiglead]

Tempting, but we decided not to.

 

[Ace]

Good job, big lead. Nice interview.

My only suggestion: I would tone down the attitude a bit in the questions. But maybe I'm just an old fart.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

"Too Short" Jones?

 

[Ace]

"Too Short" Jones?

Too bad he can't change his handle.

Here is a photo from the bar.

 

[Freelance Hack]

"Too Short" Jones?

Too bad he can't change his handle.

Here is a photo from the bar.

The soul patch under his belly button is kinda sexy.

 

[BYH]

I haven’t looked back since, as they say, except to give high holy thanks to that janitor. The Breakfast Club had that much right. They are the brains of these operations.

Awesome. Totally awesome.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

I would tone down the attitude a bit in the questions.

Yeah, the slang seemed obvious to the point of being contrived. In a Q&A, the interviewer is the canvas and the interviewee is the painting on the canvas that people are looking at in the museum. The interviewer's skill is the questions he asks and the ability to think quickly when the interviewee's answers fail to answer a question or prompt a question the interviewer hadn't thought of. You're not competing with the interviewee, you are attempting to bring out his personality.

 

[slappy4428]

Board favorite what?

 

[JonathanG]

I would tone down the attitude a bit in the questions.

Yeah, the slang seemed obvious to the point of being contrived. In a Q&A, the interviewer is the canvas and the interviewee is the painting on the canvas that people are looking at in the museum. The interviewer's skill is the questions he asks and the ability to think quickly when the interviewee's answers fail to answer a question or prompt a question the interviewer hadn't thought of. You're not competing with the interviewee, you are attempting to bring out his personality.

Seemed to me that he did a pretty good job of that. I liked it a lot. If people want more traditional stuff, they know exactly where to find it--in traditional media.

I couldn't decide when reading this whether it was done via email?

 

[thebiglead]

I would tone down the attitude a bit in the questions.

Yeah, the slang seemed obvious to the point of being contrived. In a Q&A, the interviewer is the canvas and the interviewee is the painting on the canvas that people are looking at in the museum. The interviewer's skill is the questions he asks and the ability to think quickly when the interviewee's answers fail to answer a question or prompt a question the interviewer hadn't thought of. You're not competing with the interviewee, you are attempting to bring out his personality.

Seemed to me that he did a pretty good job of that. I liked it a lot. If people want more traditional stuff, they know exactly where to find it--in traditional media.
I couldn't decide when reading this whether it was done via email?

Thanks, Jon. And yes, it was done via email.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

If people want more traditional stuff, they know exactly where to find it--in traditional media.

Traditional media ... traditional media? You mean, like, where they pay you for your work?

 

[Perry White]

I thought this thread was going to be about this: http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/we-just-had-lunch-in-nyc-with-real.html

We just finished a two hour blogger lunch with President Clinton at his NY office in Harlem. He had reached out to a group of us a few weeks ago...simply because he wanted to meet some bloggers.

 

[Jones]

"Too Short" Jones?

Too bad he can't change his handle.

Here is a photo from the bar.

I'm ashamed about how close that is. Ashamed, but also a little proud.

 

[joe]

I was afraid this was my story.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

We used some of your tips from the Simers thread. Thanks for them.

http://thebiglead.com/?p=996

Mods -- Isn't it time we started charging this guy the ad rate?

 

[thebiglead]

If that's the case, FB, i guess it's a bad idea to post up the Mariotti interview in Chicago Magazine. Relevant to journalism and the industry, but in your eyes, too much self-promotion.
Fair enough.

 

[BG]

If people want more traditional stuff, they know exactly where to find it--in traditional media.

Traditional media ... traditional media? You mean, like, where they pay you for your work?

I get paid for my work. Sorry to squash another misconception that you hold regarding blogging.