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Re: Q & A with Mashable

Daniel Delaney — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:15:40 -0000

@Alex Hillman:It seems to me that while the internet has definitely connected us and given us a democratic platform for voice, the amount of content we can physically consume hasn't changed much. As a result we've generated a great amount of extra content... most of which gets undiscovered (thought it might be great) and a lot of which is just noise.

So, would you share your thoughts on selectivity, noise, and voice? How do you advise we be more selective on what we intake, while not excluding or becoming ill-informed...

Also, I recognize socially driven news services (like Digg) and algorithmically driven content feeds (such as those in Facebook) have done this a bit. But what about in other spaces... blogs and twitter, for example?

Re: Q & A with Mashable

alexknowshtml — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:54:52 -0000

@Daniel Delaney: I'm open minded, and so is Mashable. The goal here is to widen my horizons while exploring others' interests and providing valuable information.

Entrepreneurship, technology, community, code, coworking, culture...are some of my own interests. But I'm just as interested in everyone else's.

Ask me questions that are provocative, I'm most likely to answer those.

Ask me questions that give me a reason to interview interesting people, that's what I want.

What *don't* I want?

Don't you dare ask me how to monetize your blog.
Don't you dare ask me how to get thousands of followers on twitter.

Re: Q & A with Mashable

Daniel Delaney — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:48:21 -0000

That's great! Congrats.

Is there a specific topic or focus you'd like for the questions?