wetoku: A New Tool for Web Interviews

Alex

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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Eric's voice was louder because... Eric has a loud voice!

:-)

Wait, there's more... Eric also had a mic that came down closer to his mouth, and probably was more sensitive than Eric's.

Wetoku interviews are best conducted with a microphone that is positioned close to the mouth, and a test run is generally a good idea -- to see how well the volume is matched.
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I also keep my nice webcam tucked in a shelf at my desk, but this...this may bring it out of hibernation. But I wonder why Eric's voice was so much louder than yours.
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His name is Artem Pirniazov. Couple weeks ago all russian internet talked about him because of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9EICyaEJq0&list=UUCtG6glU2Mzlcyit6j61gIg&index=1&feature=plcp
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I tried to get more information on this building by running a few comments through Babelfish. What I learned was that YouTube commenters are just as nasty in Russian as they are in English.

"kitten you suck eternally as everything they know, and when I with you will meet you teeth gather will be on [Chertanovo]. Regards to you and to your wet-nurse from the space dogs which will break your insolent erysipelas with those inflamed from the sucking of [khuev] with lips! Here another pair of [pasanov] they want to you [ebalo] into the blood to break, soon the fact that to not climb you will not be able, to walk there will be the complicatedly deformed daughter of the female of raccoon!"
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