Neatorama Update October 2009: Huffington Post and Interview with Technorati

Posted by Alex in Neatorama Only on October 27, 2009 at 1:58 am

Just a couple of updates:

10 Neatest NY Inventions Over at HuffPo
I wrote an article titled 10 Neatest New York Inventions Ever that got frontpaged at the Huffington Post. For example, whoddathunk that Jell-O (OK, OK, gelatin desert) was invented in New York?

Not satisfied with having built the first American locomotive and running for president (for the Greenback Party ticket), industrialist Peter Cooper decided to try his hand in desserts. In 1845, he patented the formula for powdered gelatin.

You may not know the name "Peter Cooper," but I bet you’ve heard of what his invention later became known as. That’s right. Jell-O.

Link – Thanks David!

Technorati State of the Blogosphere Interview
In addition to a completely new article-based front page and a new way to calculate the ranking of Technorati Top 100 Blogs, Technorati has just finished releasing their annual State of the Blogosphere 2009 report. Tucked in between all the interesting statistics and interviews with Internet heavyweights like Arianna Huffington, Seth Godin, Mathew Ingram, Simon Mackie, Andrew Breitbart, and Dean Takahashi, is little ol’ me.

Many thanks to Eric Olsen who conducted the interview and tolerated me being a rambling doofus and butchering the English language (and is that how I sound like? OMG!). We talked about the Neatorama Shop, how Neatorama grew, the blog’s counter-intuitive strategy of reducing pageviews, Neatorama’s statistics and so on and so on for about 23 minutes: Link

 
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wetoku: A New Tool for Web Interviews

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet on October 27, 2009 at 1:56 am

If you’re interested, my interview for Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere mentioned above was conducted using a new and free web service called wetoku.

wetoku is still in beta, but I can tell you this: it’s one to watch out for. The interview was a snap to set up – all I had to do was plug in my webcam (otherwise it sits in a box somewhere on my bookshelf) and click on a link sent to me via email. The web page consisted of the image of the interviewer (in my case, Eric Olsen of Blogcritics and Technorati) and the interviewee (me), and a simple chatbox where we can text each other. The interviewer presses the "record" button and we started talking. Simple!

It’s easy to see how wetoku can be very useful (just view all of the interviews done by Technorati for their State of the Blogosphere report). I won’t be surprised if we see many more wetoku interviews popping up in many blogs.

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Neatorama Update: Environmental Graffiti Interview and Twitter

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet, Neatorama Only on June 22, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Environmental Graffiti Interview

Karl Fabricius of Environmental Graffiti has just posted an interview with me about Neatorama and how the blog came to be. Actually it’s a story I’ve never told anyone online – so it’s a neat exclusive for Environmental Graffiti. Here’s the interview: Link – Thanks Karl, that was a treat!

Neatorama on Twitter!

A while ago, I posted about Neatorama’s account on Twitter. Long story short, we got the account @neatorama back amicably from a fan (Thanks Mike!) … and now am wondering what we should do with it.

Should we continue displaying Neatorama’s posts (using Twitterfeed?) or should we do Twitter only content (like mini-posts)? Or both? What do you think?

The only thing we’ve decided so far is that we should do twitter-only contests – so if you’re on Twitter, here’s Neatorama Twitter page: Link

 
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The Guys Behind the Mentos Thing

Posted by Miss Cellania in Blog & Internet on March 19, 2009 at 4:49 pm

If you recall the Diet Coke/Mentos phenomenon, you already know Fritz Grobe and Stephen Yoltz, even if you don’t know their names. They’re the geniuses behind the theater company Eepybird.

Geeks Are Sexy has a two-part interview with Grobe and Yoltz about how they took six months to develop the Bellagio Fountain routine for their “Experiment #137″ video and what went into the creation of their “Sticky Notes Experiments” video the next year.

You’ll also see them do the Diet Coke/Mentos routine in front of a live audience at the Maker Fair! Link

 
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Video Interview with Robot Painter Brian Despain

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Media, Movies & SciFi, Video Clips on February 18, 2009 at 7:29 pm


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Artist Brian Despain is a fantastic painter with a unique subject – robots. In this video, Roq La Rue Gallery’s Kristen Anderson and Kenny Montana interview Despain about his art, his inspiration and why he’s so passionate about robots.

– via boingboing

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by whitespace.

 
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Octuplets Mom's First Interview

Posted by Alex in Baby & Kids, Medicine on February 5, 2009 at 9:18 pm

Here’s the interview everyone’s been waiting for: Nadya Suleman, the Octuplets’ mom went straight from the hospital to an interview with NBC’s Ann Curry:

The mother of octuplets born last week in Bellflower told NBC News she wanted to have a "huge family" because she longed for personal connections she felt she lacked in her childhood.

"I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I — I really lacked, I believe, growing up," Nadya Suleman said in an interview today with NBC’s Ann Curry. "Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn’t functional. It was pretty — pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn’t?"

Link (Photo: NBC Universal)

Previously on Neatorama:

 
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Jen Stark's Paper Art

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Video Clips on December 31, 2008 at 2:09 am

We posted about Jen Stark’s amazing construction paper art a while ago on Neatorama, but we’ve just run across her interview by ArtStreet on WLRN South Florida.

It’s definitely worth another look: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Jen Stark’s website

 
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