Four interviews: Sambrook, Ozzie, Pryor, Bray

  • Interview with Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC Global News Division – Hypergene MediaBlog, April 11, 2005

    In this e-mail interview with Sambrook in March, 2005, he explains how participatory media strengthens the BBC’s core values; the BBC’s role shifting from broadcaster and mediator to facilitator, enabler and teacher; and forthcoming projects such as the Creative Archive, the Global Conversation and the BBC College of Journalism.

  • Ray Ozzie, Founder and CEO, Groove Networks, interviewed by Gartner Fellow Tom Austin on October 7, 2004 (second part of the interview)

    Collaboration in general has never been an easy sell, but it is so very much worth the effort. Truly effective collaboration lives at the intersection of technology, organizational dynamics, and social dynamics. If you only do two of the three right, it won’t achieve the desired objectives. But when you can get it right, it just works.

    Source: Randy Holloway

  • A communicational innovation: We talk to Lenn Pryor about Channel9 and the Microsoft blogs – Jon Froda and Jesper Bindslev, E-mediators, February 1, 2005

    We talked about honesty, credibility, trust, fear, transparency and authenticity at Microsoft’s Southern California-office the 1st of February 2005 . These concepts are highly debated in the blogosphere and among people interested in new media and business. We talked about how strangled the customer-business relationship had become. As Lenn puts it, right now Corporations, PR, employees and customers are in a big traffic jam. Corporate PR and marketing are not necessarily talking to the market; the customer is often left out in the cold.

  • A Conversation with Tim Bray (Sun Microsystems, Director of Web Technologies) – Jim Gray, ACM Queue, vol. 3, no. 1, February 2005:

    In 1986, after working in software at DEC and GTE, [Bray] took a job at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he managed the New Oxford English Dictionary Project, an ambitious research endeavor to bring the venerable Oxford English Dictionary into the computer age. Using the technology developed at Waterloo, Bray then founded Open Text Corporation and developed one of the first successful search engines. That experience led to his invitation to be one of the editors of the World Wide Web Consortium’s XML specification. He later founded a visualization software company called Antarctica Systems. He joined Sun Microsystems in 2004 as director of Web technologies.

    Source: Dave Winer’s Really Simple Syndication.