{"id":2626,"date":"2008-07-14T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/video-how-not-to-interview-the-tech-audience\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T23:35:10","slug":"video-how-not-to-interview-the-tech-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/video-how-not-to-interview-the-tech-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How Not to Interview the Tech Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never liked getting picked on for being a nerd in Junior High through High School, and nor do I like now, fortunatly, I get paid to be a geek now. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

I do enjoy watching a reporter named KTLA’s Eric Spillman<\/a>, getting called a “Jackass” and his journalistic credibility being questioned after taunting technology lovers on the street by asking them “If they’ve ever seen a naked woman”. Although Eric received an Associated Press Television-Radio Award for “Best Live News Coverage, he clearly has failed the following interview: <\/p>\n

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What’s interesting to see is that this video (now on Digg<\/a>) above is now climbing the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) for Eric Spillman’s name<\/a> as well as many blogs citing his name<\/a>. There’s actually an upside for Eric on this he could use this to gain even more attention from the internet if he plays his cards right, but there is a lesson to be learned. While picking on nerds will always pander to one’s short term ego, it doesn’t pay off in the long term.<\/p>\n

Update: Eric has issued an apology, “Mea Culpa, YouTube Viewers” does it seem authentic<\/a>? He should be apologizing not just to YouTube viewers but the technology audience in general, betta watch out or Steve Jobs will put the hurt on ya! (link via Ryan Ozawa<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never liked getting picked on for being a nerd in Junior High through High School, and nor do I like now, fortunatly, I get paid to be a geek now. 😉 I do enjoy watching a reporter named KTLA’s Eric Spillman, getting called a … Continue readingVideo: How Not to Interview the Tech Community<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}