Category: Interviews

  • Any questions for Matt Mullenweg

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    I will be interviewing Matt Mullenweg of founder of WordPress and WordPress.com on Monday. If you have any questions you’d like me to ask Matt, feel free to email them to me (tom@tomrafteryit.net) or leave them here in the comments.

  • Contact details for Vint Cerf

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    Does anyone have any contact details for Vint Cerf? Vint is one of the pioneers of the Internet -he played a key role in leading the development of the TCP/IP protocols and in September, Google announced that it hired Cerf as “Chief Internet Evangelist” I’d love to do an interview with him – I realise…

  • Salim Ismail interview podcast

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    Salim broke my head in this interview! This was one of the most informative podcast interviews I have yet done – Salim introduced me to the concepts of structured blogging, and the feed mesh. Structured blogging is a whole new concept in web publishing which literally blew my mind – PubSub will be officially announcing…

  • Salim Ismail interview coming up

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    Tom Raftery
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    I will be interviewing Salim Ismail, chairman & co-founder of PubSub in the next couple of days. Pubsub is a blog search engine or as Salim likes to say a “matching engine”. I was amazed to learn, from talking to Salim here at the les Blogs 2.0 conference, that Salim lived and worked in Cork…

  • Steve Rubel Interview Podcast

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    I did an interview with Steve Rubel yesterday (Saturday) – Steve was great – he was full of interesting insights, enthusiasm, and good humour. I can see now why he has become such a successful blogger. The interview was recorded from a Skype call so the audio quality is waaaay better than the previous interviews…

  • Darren Barefoot interview podcast

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    I recorded an interview with Darren Barefoot at the end of last week but what with the Scoble’s visit and the IT@Cork conference, I haven’t had a chance to publish it until now. Darren is an uber blogger, a web marketer, he is involved in Capulet Communications, Northern voice, darrenbarefoot.com, geek travellers blog – that…

  • Michael Arrington interview

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    I was talking to Michele Neylon last night and he was in great form noting that the number of subscribers to his site had passed the 100 hundred mark – I’m afraid I punctured his balloon when I mentioned I had just been interviewing Michael Arrington – Michael only set up his TechCrunch blog reviewing…

  • Shel Israel podcast

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    The Shel Israel interview went ahead last night, as planned. Shel was great, full of warm humour, interesting insights and relevant anecdotes. below are the questions I asked him and the times in the podcast they were asked: Shel, what is it about Ireland that appeals to you? – 1:15 You guys wrote Naked Conversations…