Joho the Blog
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November 10, 2006
Thanks to Indigo and Colin Rhinesmith, a 46-minute video of my interview of Paul Graham is now available. It starts after the overflow crowd (Paul is a rock star) had introduced itself. Paul raised some issues that I've been thinking about since. I fully intended to blog about them before this got posted, but Indigo and Colin beat me to it, damn them! ;) Paul is, to put it mildly, a stimulating thinker, speaker, writer, programmer and painter... The discussion glancingly refers to a post of mine from earlier that day. (I've listened to the first few minutes and already have found places where I want to insert an explanation of what I meant. E.g., in saying that taste is that about which we don't argue, I didn't mean to imply that everything is a matter of taste.) [Tags: paul_graham berkman video] Posted
by D. Weinberger at November 10, 2006 06:31 PM
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Comments
That was a wonderful, productive use of 46 minutes of my Saturday am. Thanks to all. Apropos the subject matter, I thought I saw a version 2.0 video interview edited to perhaps 15 minutes (with cut-aways to crisp visuals of specific items) lurking just under the 46 minute surface. Such a document would make an important addition to the archives of any center for internet & society. Volunteers? Anyone? Bueller?
To my ear a lot of the back and forth on "simple" turns on the paradox that simple really isn't (simple). An iPod may be easy-to-manipulate simple but the underlying technologies are extremely complex to most of us. PG said something like this toward the end, "…easy to use is not easy." Substituting {Appearance of Simplicity} or {Masque ** of Simplicity} for {simple} seems to resolve much of the difference between interviewer and interviewee.
**(Don't know why the ornate spelling of "mask" seems more appropriate.)
Posted by: Wray Cummings | November 11, 2006 03:12 PM
If someone wants to make a cut of it, I'd love to see what they come up with.
Posted by: David Weinberger | November 12, 2006 11:21 AM