Thu, 6 October 2005
People ask me how to pick someone to interview. To a large degree it's an internal process: I wait for something to hit me and I'll hear a little voice that says, "That person is interesting ... let's go learn more about him (or her)." So that's what I did - I went after an interview with Alex Nesbitt. Alex actually found me first. He sent a note right out of the blue, asking if I would fill out a questionnaire about myself and TalkingPortraits which he could post as an interview on his website, digitalpodcast.com. That got my interest, of course, but when I Googled him I learned that he was the author of an outstanding white paper on podcasting called The Podcast Value Chain Report: An Overview of the Emerging Podcasting Marketplace. I found it on PRLEAP.com, which is all about accelerating search engine visibility. Now THAT really got my attention because I'm a big believer in Podcasting as a tool for increasing your search engine visibility. Since then I've found out more about Alex, including his approach to marketing and technology management practices for corporations. You see, Alex has spent years working as a management consultant for groups, including The Boston Group, and now for his own company, Coplenish Consulting Group. And he's spent years as a technophile, from the earliest days of PCs to the present. Getting back to Alex's current passion: the digitalpodcast.com directory. He's developed a directory of Podcasts, as well as a podcasting forum and a free Web 2.0-style podcast search feature. He shares the API to it for programmers to cook up their own uses of the digitalpodcast.com directory data. Background music for this interview is by Bjorn Fogelberg from his Karooshi Porn album, which can be found on Magnatune.com. The intro track is titled Life in a Tube and the outro track is Wave. Comments[2]
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