As I mentioned previously, I arranged to interview Robert Scoble last night and we agreed that the interview could be podcast as part of the PR for the IT@Cork annual conference at which Robert will be speaking.
I talked to Robert for nearly an hour last night (early this morning) – he was exceedingly generous with his time. The conversation was wide-ranging, we covered the business benefits of blogging, social software (Robert’s two main topics at the conference) Robert’s job description and even the Blarney Stone (and whether or not Robert needed to kiss it when he’s in Cork to be conferred with ‘the gift of the gab’!).
In my previous post I asked were there any questions you’d like me to ask Robert and I received some good ones. I put all the questions I received to him and he answered them all – even Hostyle’s:
(I bet he won’t go near this one) Do you agree with their [Microsoft’s] dirty tactics in the past and present of disposing of competitors ala Netscape, Real Media, and the latest SCO-secret-society they are funding to smear the name of Linux?
Thanks Robert for your time and the openness with which you answered the questions.
The podcast is available for download here (13mb mp3) and is well worth downloading – there is some great advice there. I am hosting it on my own server until I get server space from someone with lots of disk and bandwidth. Apologies for the mixed quality of the audio – some (most) of it is due to my inexperience recording phone conversations and some is the fact that Robert was on his mobile.
UPDATED:
Updated with the address of the podcast – feedback welcomed!
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[…] For the non-Irish readers of this site, Tom Raftery has one of the most popular and best Irish technology blogs. He has just done a great interview with Robert Scoble which is now available as a podcast. Scoble is coming over to talk at the IT@Cork Annual Conference. This should be a fantastic day but it looks like we won’t be able to make it due to business travel. […]
[…] You’ll find a link to the podcast here, or you can download it directly here (it is 13mb mp3). […]
You should check out ourmedia.org to host the mp3. Save your bandwidth 🙂
I have used ourmedia.org in the past Justin but i find them very unreliable. They have lost two mp3’s I uploaded!
The last time I wanted to upload an mp3, I used ourmedia.org and I went to archive.org directly – I had an url from archive.org in under 12 hours, days later I still had nothing from ourmedia.
Scoble Podcast
Robert Scoble will visit Ireland for the first time near the end of this month to speak at IT Cork November 30th and also in Dublin on December 1st for an INDA event.
On the run up to his trip to Cork Tom Raftery was able to grab Scoble over the phon…
[…] However, given Yahoo!’s purchase of Flickr, Google needs a cool photo app like this to maintain a presence in this space – then again, so does Microsoft! Anyone want to start a Microsoft is buying Riya rumour? Funny, Robert Scoble didn’t mention it in the interview of him which I podcast yesterday… then again, he wouldn’t, would he? Technorati Tags: blogosphere facial recognition flickr google microsoft photo albums podcast riya robert scoble technorati web 20 […]
[…] Tom Raftery is the guy who runs the IT@Cork National Technology & Business Conference. He called me up the other day and we had a chat and he recorded that and put it up. He had previously asked his readers to send in their questions. They did, including one on open source that Tom didn’t expect me to answer. I answered that, and more, on the podcast. […]
Nice one Tom.
[…] Tom has put up his podcast of the interview with Robert Scoble. I don’t know why but the theme tune to the Flintstones started going through my head when I thought of Scoble in mp3 form. My brain is weird, what can I say. Anyway, like Homer did with his “Homer, Homer Simpson” remake, here is one for Scoble. Scoble, Robert Scoble He’s the greatest guy in history From the town of Redmond He’s making a nice guy out of Bill G. […]
[…] I recorded a phone interview with Robert Scoble on Tuesday of this week and I podcast the interview here. […]
Tom, that was fascinating. Thank you so much for this. What I really took away from this piece was when he said, “blogging is the world’s best relationship-building device I’ve ever found.” I concur. I “meet” so many fascinating and smart people this way (including yourself), and even sometimes get the privilege to meet them in person.
And I enjoyed learning about his video blog where he pops into offices of Microsoft employees and talks with them about their ideas and projects. There must be some good stuff in there. I’ll have to check it out.
Interesting stuff
Tom – if the mp3 is wreaking havoc on your bandwidth let me know and I’ll give you some space for it.
Darren – the video blog can be very interesting – it is a great way to get an insight into the faceless corporation that is microsoft. It does a tremendous job of humanising the company and it is far easier to get some concepts across (application UI, map flythroughs, etc) in a video.
Michele, thanks – I’ll take the bandwidth discussion offline.
[…] And, Tom publicly publishes an MP3 of his interview with Robert Scoble. Filed under: Blogs […]
[…] In my recent podcast with Robert Scoble, one of the issues I raised with him was how much easier text blogs are to index for a search engine, than are podcasts or videoblogs. Robert agreed that this was the case but he made the point that search engines are using link text and the text surrounding the links to podcasts and videoblogs as a means to indexing their content – not ideal but it’s a start. […]
How about a transcript? Podcasts are nonsense. What if I want to read your cast? What If Im deaf?
(Tom) Raftery and (Robert) Scoble
I know Tom from a couple of years ago when his business developed an application for a project I was managing – he was a good guy to deal with. And he’s an active blogger and ITCork head as well.
Enjoyed that Tom – quality was fine and you did not disgrace yourself at all. Good questions well presented 🙂
keith
Tim,
I have registered this site with PodZinger and it is supposed to create searchable transcripts fo podcasts.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Tom.
[…] Perhaps Bill with his access to nearly every desktop in the world and his wallet bursting with billion dollar notes could significantly change the world and make it better but I don’t read Bill’s blog (because he doesn’t have one) and I doubt if he had one he’d be linking to potential competitors, giving kudos to clever technologies no matter who made them or responding to comments. Scoble does all this and still does his day job. I don’t know was it Scoble’s influence or just a seachange in Microsoft but I can start to see humanity in Microsoft now. It is slowly becoming a company with a sense of community compared to the old Beast of Redmond persona it had. Even if Scoble didn’t have anything to do with this he has highlighted the changes and as his recent podcast with Tom Raftery showed he isn’t afraid of speaking out against evil deeds done by Microsoft. […]
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Tom lands big names for podcasts
A big shout out to Tom who has started to become a big name, both in blogging and more recently in podcasting.
Tom has only been podcasting for a short time, but already has interviewed some of the blogging heavy weights, and carried out these interv…
[…] My first interview-type podcast was with Robert Scoble – this was in the run-up to the 2005 IT@Cork annual conference. The podcast was content great but the audio quality leaves a bit to be desired. The podcast show notes give more detail and the podcast itself is available for download here (13mb mp3) Technorati Tags: it@Cork podcast robert scoble […]
Hi Tom,
Just wondering if there is a transcript of this podcast anywhere.
Brian
Not as far as I know Brian, sorry