Ben Hammersley was my first guest on my Reboot podcasts this year, and his presentation was not only great - but challenging for our minds. The different people I have talked to afterwards, this was the presentation many have said to be the one with the longest lasting effect.

It is my pleasure to bring him "back" and talk with him about how his topic has evolved. Because in this new society, we not only want to express ourselves differently, but also we participate for example through podcasting in conferences, so speakers cannot hold one and the same speech several times.

His keynote for Les Blogs 2.0 is titled "Eight ideas that will really revolutionize the 21st century (and why blogging isn't one of them)" and I encourage you to go listen to it - because hearing him afterwards on some recordings is only half the fun. For more information, read his speaker bio or visit his blog.

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Mark Rogers is CEO of Market Sentinel, a web monitoring company. Topics of this interview are:

• how Market Sentinel works, and how they focus on selecting the sources which are important forthe customers


• the Influencer Index: per topic, per theme, per company and the Net Promoters index - from an old economy idea to the new world


• about their upcoming white paper "how influential are bloggers"


• his special interest for Les Blogs: how are others to deal with Spamblogs

Go to their website for more information or visit their blog.

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Chairman and co-founder of Pubsub, Salim Ismail is panelist on "Tracking/Listening to the Online World" and adds to what Marc Canter talked about in the last podcast - structured data and what this means for our life.

Topics he and I are talking about are for example

• looking into the past and using a matching engine for new events


• the first decade: "messaging", the second: "request and respond", the third: "publish and subscribe"


• structured blogging and new tools for this


• the feedmash


• Pubsub tracks Blogs, Usenet groups, airport delays, stock filings and - an XML-based earthquake system


• information should be available when a user needs them - and if they need them very quick, there is a business waiting


• what idea started Pubsub - and why bloggers make a great load test


• structured data, blogging and localization

Read his speaker bio for more information or read the session description.

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Who'd thought that Marc Canter not only talks future but has German Opera at hand when you talk to him? But perhaps this is also part of "How to socialize in the year 2055"?

I can tell you, I had a lot to laugh during this interview. We talk for example about

• digital lifestyle, structured blogging, microcontent, microformats


• meet space and how to meet women (and jobs) online


• about not looking in content, but using open standards - and have better services on top


• the new era of media blogging

Read his speaker bio for more information or visit his blog.

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Book-author Joël de Rosnay will speak on the panel "Citizen Journalism and mainstream media".

He and I talk about "old people", the success of Minitel in France, why he sometimes likes websites better than blogs, why he wants to talk to a machine, and why he would like to meet more of the 'younger' people.

Read his speaker bio for more information or visit his website.

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Dana VanDen Heuvel's interview has gotten a bit longer than the others, but this is also due to the fact that it was one of the first I recorded. As everything around RSS is very interesting to me, I naturally was hooked on listening to him. :)

Read his speaker bio or visit his blog for more information on him, or visit the company Pheedo.

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Skema is in the market for "easy publishing of audio/video" for their customer, with a special focus on easy to use and providing better meta data.

I interview founder Olivier Dufour who will be on the session for Podcasting, Photo & Video Blogging about this interesting way of using modern technology and would hope more companies would make it as easy to use.

Read his speaker bio for more information or visit his blog.

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Venture consultant Jeff Clavier moderates the panel "Investing 2.0 : The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and promises a lot of interaction with the audience.

We talk about how easy it has gotten to start a business, and which kind of interests VCs have when they look at a business. For the Panel, Jeff wants a lively conversation with ideas and concepts brought in from the audience, and he and the panel will comment if these are "good, bad or ugly". He promises it to be a lot of fun - so prepare your ideas! :)

Read his speaker bio for more information or visit his blog.

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Steve Olechowski is co-founder and COO of Feedburner, and will be talking on the RSS panel of Les Blogs.

We talk about how Feedburner listens to their publishers, the helpful introduction of iTunes support and why so many podcasters and blog owners use feedburner. Additionally you can read his speaker info or visit his his blog.

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Edu-Blogger Ewan McIntosh about getting blogs, podcasts and wikis into Scottish education system, fears of teachers and chances for everyone else. Warning: Strong Scottish accent. ;)

Visit the speaker bio or his blog at edu.blogs.com.

 

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This interview is with Roy Lindemann of the company Readspeaker who provides you with a way to 'print your audio'. Roy will be speaking at the podcasting / videocasting panel. We talk about where to use a service like Readspeaker and why it is not at all just about accessibility.

 

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The second interview features Adriana Cronin-Lukas who will be speaking at the Panel "How is blogging affecting corporations?".

Read her speaker info or her blogs at Bigblogcompany or Mediainfluencer.

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I am very happy to have Shel and Robert on for the first edition of the Lesblogs 2.0 podcast. We talk about what they expect of Paris and Lesblogs, as well as about their new book Naked Conversations. Some links for you:

• Robert: Blog, speaker info


• Shel: Blog, speaker info


• Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses

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Intro taken of "come see about me" by the british band Browser.

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According to Modern Marketing:

In a frank email exchange about Typepad's recent problems, TP's CEO Barak Berkowitz told me that Six Apart is to launch a "Business Class Service" after the big move.

A personal blogger might not care so much about whether or not his site is up 90% of the time, a business person does.

If posting on your plattform takes that long, it costs too much money. But the question will be how they will justify the probably coming price increase? Just by "pay us and you will get the service you once where used to"?

For the next month, this site will contain mainly publishing around the pre conference podcast for Les Blogs 2.0; after that it will be the place where I talk about all things new media, be it blogs, podcasts or other things to follow.

Pre conference podcasts are fun (except for the long name), and this is my third this year. I started doing this with "preboot", the precon for reboot 7 in Copenhagen and continued it with a podcast for the Podcastcon UK.

Now, with the upcoming Les Blogs 2.0, you will get one too. This post will be the collecting post where I will list all of the interviews.

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Are you a speaker I have not gotten in contact with? Please contact me at bloxpert at gmail.com! :)

While setting up interviews with speakers from Les Blogs 2.0 (let me rephrase that: trying to schedule), I encountered the problem of not being able to find a way to contact most of the people on the list.

Which is interesting, because many of them had a webpage, but only a few provided an email address or a contact form. Don't get me wrong: I absolutly understand the need of privacy, but there are times when somebody should be able to contact you at all. At the moment, I will probably look up the phone number of the company and place a normal landline call to get in contact - and with that use up more ressources then just a simple email.

If you might think the interview request is nothing which should go through and I am biased on that, think about it this way: Somebody is willing to offer you a great job / project. And all they got is a lousy phone number. Do you want that to happen? :)

[And when you read this entry very early, my contact form is not ready - on this domain. But on every other ones, like for example here. :)]

Lore ipsum is stupid, but it would be cool if one could just copy and paste text with meaning right away. Somehow the promised intelligent computers should come up with this - after all, this is the year 2005!