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Alexis Ohanian on Colbert Report [video]
- LukeG 13y agoWait, who? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001864/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001864/
- kevando 13y agoThis was way less interesting than I had hoped for. Although I do love the giant up vote cut out.
- kn0thing 13y agoYou should've seen what we did off-camera with those upvotes and John Lithgow.
- jdkram 13y agoFor viewers outside the US using Chrome, Media Hint (https://mediahint.com/install_chrome.html https://mediahint.com/install_chrome.html).
- gum_ina_package 13y agoWhat's the point of an interview like this honestly? It was just filler.
- samuli 13y agoThe segment was an advert for a book and Samsung Galaxy Gear.
- Goladus 13y agoHonestly I thought that was a better-than-average Colbert interview. Sometimes his gags and non sequiturs completely derail the topic but this one stayed pretty focused and Alexis did a good job of getting his message across.
- kn0thing 13y ago'twas straight nerve-wracking!
- TheLegace 13y agoWell it seems like a significant majority of people may not understand what crowdsourcing and a minority not even know what reddit is just got a chance to hear about it. Even people I know who are in Engineering programs do not know what reddit is and generally how Internet technology could benefit them. I don't know if you are from SV, but it seems like someone is stuck in a classic SV bubble. Besides you never hear about the work people in tech do especially on Colbert and Daily Show. I have watched these shows religiously for many years and the only thing on peoples minds are Healthcare(US) and Rob Ford(I'm from Toronto ;).
- wf 13y agoI met him pretty recently at Compute Midwest, super nice guy. He gave a passionate talk about the same things. The book is a quick and very interesting read, as a budding entrepreneur (haha ;)) I found it pretty inspiring.
- kn0thing 13y agoThanks, wf! I didn't want to waste anyone's time with the book and I write like I speak -- that is, conversationally -- so you can get the info you need and get back to changing the world!
- saadshamim 13y agoCanadian mirror: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?videoPackage=141176 http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?videoP... - forward to part 3
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- cclogg 13y agoThanks! Glad one even exists lol. Last I checked, Comedy Network hadn't even uploaded any South Park. Man... geo restrictions... man oh man :(
- feint 13y agobeen waiting to read his book, but unfortunately its not available in australia yet (kindle format)
- kn0thing 13y agoYeah, that's annoying. Sorry, I'm sure you can find it somewhere....
- uaygsfdbzf 13y agoThe Kim Kardashian of Silicon Valley. People whose job is to be seen more than to, you know, build something.
- flycaliguy 13y agoJealous much? I've seen his sex tape and it makes Kim's look PG13.
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoReddit just seems like one of those projects that got really lucky. Digg was making its users upset, slashdot was too nerdy, and metafilter too hard to get into due to $5 cost. Early reddit was kind of a mess too. Congrats on his success, but its always odd to hear people give advice or talk about their projects when there's a large element of luck involved. To be fair, this may be true of all successful projects.
- kevando 13y agoI don't think reddit got lucky because even after becoming mega successful, it's still almost impossible to spam the site. And their "hot" algorithm is an amazing way to always provide fresh content (unless you spend hours on the site). Their luck did come though, from Digg's failure. I forget the number, but they almost doubled their page views the week after Digg's infamous update.
- TillE 13y agoReddit was popular but still very niche pre-Digg 4. Not unlike Slashdot. Digg's collapse rapidly transformed Reddit into something completely different, exemplified now by the celebrity AMAs and godawful crap on the front page. Reddit did get a number of things right, but it still won't last. They may look back at killing /r/reddit.com as a huge mistake; once upon a time, people did really talk about Reddit as one big community, and there was some sense of that. That's not the case anymore.
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- pervycreeper 13y agoI'm curious regarding his advice to potential founders that was mentioned in the interview. Is this available online in a concise format?
- kn0thing 13y agoI'm sure someone has written a TL;DR for the book... I also believe quite a few of the college stops have been recorded, but here's the entire tour schedule (the events are nearly all open to the public) http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates
- adamzerner 13y agoThere's something weirdly effective about reducto ad absurdum arguments meant to prove the opposite. In the beginning, Colbert was saying "but don't we need gatekeepers to tell us what's right?", which is obviously a bad argument. Him making the bad argument did a better job of illustrating the good arguments point, than the good argument itself.
- kn0thing 13y agoAs a guest I can tell you it's a giant mindjob to be interviewed like that.
- alayne 13y agoI watched the latest episode of Small Empires yesterday about Kitchensurfing and was very impressed. I definitely recommend the show if you are interested in startups and Alexis Ohanian http://www.theverge.com/video/small-empires http://www.theverge.com/video/small-empires
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- kn0thing 13y agoThank you! Very proud of that series. You know, I foolishly tried pitching it for a couple years to traditional publishers, getting told "we love you, this idea, but we just need to change a few things..." Inevitably I'd pass and then finally came to my senses and approached The Verge after appearing on [On The Verge.](http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/25/3114567/on-the-verge-007-levar-burton-alexis-ohanian-tim-wu http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/25/3114567/on-the-verge-007-l...) Their setup was so impressive that I realized I needed to work with them. The rest is history! We're already figuring out Season 2 and some other fun things... as I've traveled across the country on the Without Their Permission book tour, loads of people have asked for Small Empires: Their City (we're NYC for season 1). I've got a plan for scaling the project. Stay tuned and thank you so much for all the support.
- mark_l_watson 13y agoI saw Alexis talk at a Google authors talk recently. He is a great speaker and his book is a good read.
- kn0thing 13y agoWhy thank you! That was a fun Q&A. Here's that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdYblcTHCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdYblcTHCk