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I always disappointed when I see mixergy come up on HN. The article titles often look great - interviews, interesting topics, etc. - but I just don't have the a

I always disappointed when I see mixergy come up on HN. The article titles often look great - interviews, interesting topics, etc. - but I just don't have the attention span to consume talk video. I think a killer start-up might be a mix of video and transcripts... maybe outsource the transcriptions since the technology isn't there yet. Then again, I might read a transcription even if it was garbled like Google Voice messages.

brandnewlow 17y ago
He hasn't figured out a format that everyone loves.... ....but who else is doing what he's doing: Longform interviews with people who made stuff a lot of us know about? Has anyone produced a better interview with ojbyrne? kn0thing? Not that I've seen anywhere. For all the (valid) griping about how articles are presented on HN, I'd think someone like Andrew trying to create a new, "ultimate" format for presenting a longform interview would be welcomed.
- weaksauce 17y ago
  Is that not why he sends out the information in multiple ways? I count four right now: video, audio, full transcript, and a key points overview. What other ways to present a long interview are there? Are you looking for every question indexed and clickable as a link that seeks to the question in the video? That might be cool for a second viewing when you are looking for a particular answer to a question but for overall watching I think his site is pretty flexible. Note: This is not a criticism of your comment... more a call for clarification.
  - andrewljohnson 17y ago
    Hey, both of you in this thread... thanks for the info. Now that I know about the transcripts, I have a lot of reading to do :)
  - brandnewlow 17y ago
    I'm not looking for anything. I think Mixergy is terrific and was sticking up for the interviews against what I thought was unfair criticism.
jwesley 17y ago
You are disappointed in Mixergy because of your own short attention span? Why is that a problem with Mixergy. If you looked around you would also notice there are transcripts and text summaries. What I like to do is put it on in the background when I'm doing semi-menial work and then focus on it when something catches my attention. Of course talk video has it's shortcomings but Andrew is doing the best startup interviews anywhere.
jmonegro 17y ago
Stream the mp3, listen to it in chunks.
rms 17y ago
Andrew Warner does posts transcripts for all of his videos by using Mechanical Turk.

brandnewlow 17y ago

He hasn't figured out a format that everyone loves.... ....but who else is doing what he's doing: Longform interviews with people who made stuff a lot of us know about? Has anyone produced a better interview with ojbyrne? kn0thing? Not that I've seen anywhere. For all the (valid) griping about how articles are presented on HN, I'd think someone like Andrew trying to create a new, "ultimate" format for presenting a longform interview would be welcomed.

weaksauce 17y ago
Is that not why he sends out the information in multiple ways? I count four right now: video, audio, full transcript, and a key points overview. What other ways to present a long interview are there? Are you looking for every question indexed and clickable as a link that seeks to the question in the video? That might be cool for a second viewing when you are looking for a particular answer to a question but for overall watching I think his site is pretty flexible. Note: This is not a criticism of your comment... more a call for clarification.
- andrewljohnson 17y ago
  Hey, both of you in this thread... thanks for the info. Now that I know about the transcripts, I have a lot of reading to do :)
- brandnewlow 17y ago
  I'm not looking for anything. I think Mixergy is terrific and was sticking up for the interviews against what I thought was unfair criticism.

jwesley 17y ago

You are disappointed in Mixergy because of your own short attention span? Why is that a problem with Mixergy. If you looked around you would also notice there are transcripts and text summaries. What I like to do is put it on in the background when I'm doing semi-menial work and then focus on it when something catches my attention. Of course talk video has it's shortcomings but Andrew is doing the best startup interviews anywhere.

jmonegro 17y ago

Stream the mp3, listen to it in chunks.

rms 17y ago

Andrew Warner does posts transcripts for all of his videos by using Mechanical Turk.