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Open source

by Charlie Bess

Over the holidays, I mentioned that I was interviewed about open source. The content of the interview they decided to publish is listed here.

I was a bit surprised about how some of the areas were truncated and that I am the Vice President of Fidelity's Center for Applied Technologies!?!? I should check for my rights to review content next time.

I guess I should stick with the adage: any press coverage is good press coverage - or something like that.

Published Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:28 PM

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Posted by John Fowler Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:07 PM

Congratulations on your "promotion"! I guess you should be calling Fidelity and asking why you haven't been receiving your paychecks and stock options....

Seriously, this relates a little to your previous <a href="http://www.eds.com/sites/cs/blogs/eds_next_big_thing_blog/archive/2006/01/04/8311.aspx">blog entry</a> about pattern recognition finding interesting information about people. Here, someone has published something wrong about you. The automated pattern recognizers don't care. What can you do about it? Maybe in this case, you could contact the web site and tell them to correct the photo caption, but even if they were cooperative, that wouldn't correct caches and archives all over the Internet. I guess you should be happy they didn't identify you as the leader of a terrorist organization.

Posted by Dennis Howlett Friday, January 06, 2006 5:59 AM

Which is why you're better off doing a podcast. At least if the interviewer gets your position or name wrong then you can interject and make he/she look the asinine fool they're secretly thinking of making you. Interviewing Tip: It always helps to land the first verbal punch...the trick is to be subtle in doing it.

Posted by Charlie Bess Friday, January 06, 2006 4:56 PM

Dennis - I guess a podcast with you is out of the question now.

The problem with podcasts is that I am an incessant skimmer. I can't skim a podcast, although I have been known to play them at faster speeds though.

Posted by Cote' Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:44 PM

Re: podcasting. That's the complaint everyone has ;) You don't really skim over music, right? You just don't listen to bad music. The same's true for podcasts.

Besides, if you were doing a podcast it wouldn't be for you to listen to, it'd be for others: perhaps those who don't mind an unskimmable format, such as myself ;) It's hard to skim when you're walking the dog, driving around, or cleaning the house (the top 3 times I listen to podcasts).

More to the issue at hand, you should see if you can get transcripts of interviews you do and then post the full transcript on your blog: or, just make your own transcripts if feasible. Services for transcribing them can be expensive (on a personal level), but maybe EDS would pick up the tab ;)

Indeed, that's the a large part of the CEO blogger/Cuban pitch for blogs, right: finally, I can get the exact message I want out there without press filtering and (in your case) screw-ups.