Bloggers met the man for dinner, not Borat, not AliG, nonono, the mighty BillG (not my abbreviation), paid trips all inclusive. Other bloggers think: man got away to easily. Well, big tech blogger Scobleizer defends the guys and states that it is easy to be impressed and really difficult to ask tough questions and anyway BillG knows how to talk around a tough one, so why trying.
Scoble is right of course, I hate to admit it. And... would I have asked a tough question, would I have tried to nail him if he evades my question? I hope I would, and that would have meant being better than Jeremy Paxman, the tough BBC interviewer... who turned into a real softie a couple of years ago (update: 1999). Asked Bill Gates how it felt to be the richest man in the world, or something like that. And so it went on and on, one of the biggest interview disappointments, especially with the fuzz BBC generated for this Paxo interview at the time (check out this Google search). TheRegister was also disappointed and yes please read that really funny recount. My memory has not failed me.
So, dear bloggers, it doesn't matter. Even the great Paxman failed and I haven't read or seen any remarkable interviews of BillG ever (since).
And if some of those bloggers really asked questions like Neill Kennedy or Molly E. Holzschlag did, well, there is nothing to get angry about. That is MUCH better than most of the pros ever did in their interviews.
Scoble is right of course, I hate to admit it. And... would I have asked a tough question, would I have tried to nail him if he evades my question? I hope I would, and that would have meant being better than Jeremy Paxman, the tough BBC interviewer... who turned into a real softie a couple of years ago (update: 1999). Asked Bill Gates how it felt to be the richest man in the world, or something like that. And so it went on and on, one of the biggest interview disappointments, especially with the fuzz BBC generated for this Paxo interview at the time (check out this Google search). TheRegister was also disappointed and yes please read that really funny recount. My memory has not failed me.
So, dear bloggers, it doesn't matter. Even the great Paxman failed and I haven't read or seen any remarkable interviews of BillG ever (since).
And if some of those bloggers really asked questions like Neill Kennedy or Molly E. Holzschlag did, well, there is nothing to get angry about. That is MUCH better than most of the pros ever did in their interviews.
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