The last week of March has been a great several days for Mashable Interview. Speaking strictly to the production schedule I've laid out for myself, it's been one of the most ambitious I've embarked upon in a while. Speaking to all those folks has really provided us with some gems of conversations to listen to this week. If you've missed any of them, you probably aren't a subscriber in your favorite feed reader or podcatcher. Below are the links to make that happen.
If that's just too big of a commitment for you to handle, though, we'll go over the words of the week and see what sort of stuff came out of my mouth.
JamBase, the original social network for live music aficionados and producers, recently celebrated 10 years on the web and 1 million listings in their database. The function of JamBase hasn't legitimately changed in those ten years, but what we tech folks call it and the new sites we pressure them to be interoperable with have. Back when JamBase was first starting, we called them community portals. These days, they're social networks.
I had a great conversation and we touched on all the interesting interactions we'd both had with indy music in the past (he had a touring rock band as well), as well as the future (how a Rock of Gibralter website like his maintains it's relevance in the rapidly changing landscape of social media).
Ross, Mike and I all talked about these challenges and the extreme amount of thought, testing and care they've put into trying to make this the most fair place to find, perform and hire creative work.
This technically was from two weeks ago, but I really didn't promote this podcast much on the blog (releasing it really as a Mashable Conversations Extra Edition). The KidZui Browser caught my attention when they released, though, and given that it is targeted for kids age 6 to 11, i figured that rather than to give a stodgy review based on my rather adult perspective, I sat down with my six year old son, AJ, and had him play with the browser for an hour and give his thoughts and experiences on it.
This interview cost me $19 in talent fees payable to my son to produce (invoice is in the mail, Pete). Enjoy!