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Here’s the most recent GigaOm show without Om! But, in the latest episode of the GigaOm Show on Revision3, Liz Gannes and Joyce Kim do a good job interviewing John Lilly, the new CEO of Mozilla.
I spent some time with Lilly at a conference in Hawaii last year (I know, boondoggle!) on a scavenger hunt team and can attest to the fact that he is as smart as he seems here in this video about the future of the open-source browser company.
However we missed a week of posting the GigaOm Show on Revision3 escapes us–it had something to do with tequila and Britney Spears, but we are foggy on the exact details.
Nonetheless, here are two for the price of one (and, by price, we mean free) for your techie enjoyment.
Last month, Om Malik and his co-host, Joyce Kim, interviewed a bunch of folks while attending the TechCrunch40 conference, including the tracksuit-wearing, shaved-head-sporting Marc Andreessen (don’t get us wrong, we like the look). Also, extreme wonkery with Engadget guys and Chris Anderson of Wired on his book-worthy newest theory.
Then, it’s onto Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft’s go-to guy in Silicon Valley.
I have always thought Lewin was quite a charmer comparatively speaking (to most at Microsoft, that is, and not bad in general).
Watch carefully, as he is working as hard as he can to brush off the GoogleFacebookYouTube mindshare monster. Also, Lewin says exactly zero about Microsoft’s intentions toward Facebook.
Is it just me or does it seem exactly one million years ago when Microsoft was considered the scary Bigfoot?
This week Om Malik and his co-host Joyce Kim interview Max Levchin, Slide CEO, on the online GigaOM Show on Revision3.
I did a three-part series of interviews with Max, as well as doing a video of a visit I paid to the widgetmaker’s offices in San Francisco, and I posted them all yesterday.
But here is the GigaOm Show’s take on Max. Also, Om says a bad word!
The ever helpful Jim Louderback–now of Revision3, who works with Om Malik at his GigaOM show on that video site–comes through with an embeddable show.
And I only had to ask nice once after I complained in a post here that the online video show was not viral. Horrors!
Malik hosts the interview show weekly with lawyer Joyce Kim. Now you can see me talking with them about my thoughts about Dow Jones under new owner Rupert Murdoch, as well as on topics like blogging, traditional journalism and the doings at Facebook and Yahoo.
The video also includes a session before mine with Ryan Block of Engadget. Plus you get to see a rare, limited-edition Walt Mossberg “Craplets!” T-shirt.
Thanks Jim! (And also for paper-airplane-sitting Louie, while I blabbered away.)
That old charmer Om Malik lured me onto his online GigaOM Show on Revision3, where he and co-host Joyce Kim interviewed me for its seventh episode about a range of topics.
They included getting me to talk about what I really think of new owner Dow Jones owner Rupert Murdoch (quick summary: He’s certainly been a controversial media mogul, but we’ll see!), as well as my thoughts about blogging, traditional journalism and my two favorite Web companies to report on right now, Facebook and Yahoo.
Bonus: First up in the program is the always clever Ryan Block of Engadget, who I think is one of the sassier tech reporters out there.
I seem unable to embed the whole program–Om, get on it!–but you can see it here, and also hear it, too. But here are some pictures below, including me showing off my limited-edition Walt Mossberg “Craplets!” T-shirt.
What is Om Malik going to announce at his party tomorrow night at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco?
Valleywag wanted to know what the well-known tech blogger was up to, so we will tell them: an online television interview and analysis show on Revision3 called “The GigaOm Show.”
Along with tech lawyer Joyce Kim (who is also sister-in-law to Jason Calacanis), the weekly show will be 10-minute talks with various tech CEOs and start-up entrepreneurs.
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.