As many of you know, I was a columnist for Engadget back in 2004-05. So it came as a rude shock when I surfed their site the other day to discover that the couple of dozen interviews I conducted with some really interesting technology movers and shakers — like Blake Krikorian, CEO of Sling Media, John MacFarlane of Sonos or Niklas Zennström (above) of Skype — were now riddled with odd characters (at least in Firefox 2.0) and, in every case, summarily cut in half. I guess AOL believes Web readers can’t make it through long interviews.
I spent some time republishing them all to the Social Media blog — thankfully, I still had the original transcripts. I hate the fact that so much of the Web seems to disappear or fall into disrepair in such a short time. These articles will now be preserved here, since AOL can’t do the job. Certainly students and scholars who study this fascinating era in tech will want access to the full interviews. They still make pretty interesting reading … and I’ll be doing a lot more interviews in the months ahead (though not for Engadget).
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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