Comments on: Live: Arrington Interviews Sarah Lacy About New Book

By: CrunchNotes » Sarah Lacy Book Tour

CrunchNotes » Sarah Lacy Book Tour — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:35:50 +0000

[...] my interview with Sarah on the new book here. Digg [...]

By: david saintloth

david saintloth — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:15:27 +0000

Ditto Alan #9

And if I read another post plugging this girls book (I never heard of her before coming to this site) I am going to lose it. How do I get my business as many plugs as she as had for her book in the last week Michael? I am envious!!

Levitation display?

Teleporation perhaps?

By: Suraj Singh

Suraj Singh — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:00:12 +0000

Painful. The quality ruined what would have been a great video to watch. I watched the whole thing (did anyone else?!), but the really poor sound meant my attention deficit was certainly not in order. Almost a cross between DiggNation and GigaOm. How loud can we shout for TechCrunch to put out your own professional show? Surely you are only doing us, your users, and injustice? Can’t wait to see it, Mike?

By: Munashe

Munashe — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:58:15 +0000

nice interview, the book must be incredible. mike looks interesting though, pale

By: Jeff C

Jeff C — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:57:55 +0000

There’s a learning curve using a smart phone camera and Qik to record something like this. First, gotta have a good 3G network. Second, audio, audio, audio. If you’re not right up on people, and they’re not speaking loudly - or you don’t happen to have an extension microphone (which at this point as far as I know have to be rigged up MacGyver style, though Nokia had some specially made for Reuters field reporters) you can’t achieve good audio capture. And third - perhaps most important - when starting a Qik video (figured this out with my Nokia N95) as soon as you hit record, the first thing you’re pointing at (in this case, Ms. Lacy’s rear end) … will be the still picture that everyone sees before hitting play.

It’s a shame the quality on this isn’t good. I was interested in what they had to say. I’ve watched a number of Lacy’s Yahoo Tech Ticker interviews, caught her appearance on Fox Business’s Happy Hour … and all were terrific. The SXSW thing? Get over it.

By: kenobi

kenobi — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:35:04 +0000

I really wanted to watch this, but it’s like watching a grainy happy-slapping video. Gave up after the intro.

By the way, what’s the deal with Sarah Lacy’s website?

By: pasan

pasan — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:14 +0000

Two major windbags full of gossip and nothing more.

By: Jeff Slobotski

Jeff Slobotski — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:43 +0000

Interesting interview—is this just a “tell all” book or actually case studies involved?

By: cape-able joe

cape-able joe — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:36:15 +0000

ya know, i’m pretty, like, sure its not the first time someone has pulled out a cellphone to record something they happened to observe. there was a complete absence of a production setup; therefore, no plan to do so. No backdrop or lapel mics. it was like, like, i was really there, like watching from inside a little matchbox.
Qik is for like, fun, ya know?

By: Stella

Stella — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:18:36 +0000

i want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Miles Long

Miles Long — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:17:56 +0000

I can’t watch this…the audio and video quality is shite!

Web 2.0 tech does not trump broadcast standards; it’s just a different platform. Hire some real production guys next time. The content deserves it!

By: Adam Smith

Adam Smith — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:10:45 +0000

Waste of time. Seriously people. How many people care about - what does she call it - the ‘valley rebirth’ - outside of the valley or maybe wall street? I mean. Come on. Facebook is mainstream. Myspace is mainstream. But uh - plaxo. Got bought for a great sum for them. But mainstream? Not even close. Techcrunch - mainstream? Not even close. Subject matter doesn’t enable it to be. So much drivel. So little time. But apparently enough sexual tension that maybe there’s a reality web show about bloggers and actual writers. Who knows.

By: JosefVirek

JosefVirek — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:19:53 +0000

goddamn the video and audio quality sucks!

anyway, I think Arrington’s going to end up marrying Sarah Lacy. The sexual tension is so obvious between the two.

By: baah-baah-the-black-sheep

baah-baah-the-black-sheep — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:58:39 +0000

More Sarah, less Mike. Send your camera guy to a crash course.

By: Once You’re Lucky, Twice Your Bloody Lucky!

Once You’re Lucky, Twice Your Bloody Lucky! — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:47:04 +0000

I have thought long and hard about luck and following all this hype around the concept Sarah Lacy is promoting ‘Once Your Lucky, Twice You’re Good’. Well, I disagree with her assertion!

http://thenextweb.org/2008/05/.....ody-lucky/

By: Moudi

Moudi — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:48:34 +0000

I hope you had another camera rolling to record a higher quality of that interview.

By: r. jones

r. jones — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:33:26 +0000

not a flattering final shot. is it amateur night?

By: tagami

tagami — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:12:36 +0000

Michael -

Always great content - but in this case your media sucks.

Get a better camera, get a better mike, use a better compression for your video. Yes, I know Qik is “simple”, but you and your readers are better than this. You can be frugal, use cutting edge tools AND look great. Why not?

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:09:28 +0000

sound quality could use a little help in the future …..

By: Mircea

Mircea — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:53:17 +0000

I’ll how the book will be…just ordered it. Hope it will live to the expectations…

By: DEckoff

DEckoff — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:19:04 +0000

Good live interview.

Iif you’d like to read more in depth, Iust posted part 1 of my interview with Sarah about her new book, the good and bad of Silicon Valley, Twitter and more.

Read it here:

http://www.davideckoff.com/200....._auth.html

By: paul moran

paul moran — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:04:52 +0000

Excellent! Made me order it on Amazon! Good job to both of you.

By: wayne sutton

wayne sutton — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:02:57 +0000

Enjoyed the interview, hope to see more live streams on techcrunch

By: April Sanders

April Sanders — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:59:52 +0000

Qik quality sucks..I can’t watch more than like 15 seconds before it kills me

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:54:16 +0000

totally agree about the digg community falling apart.