Ahh, I missed the 1938 Media video review of ScobleShow. Short version? It wasn’t liked. He didn’t like anything. Not one thing? I love how he says “they” when referring to my video and audio work. It made me crack up. 2:30 YouTube video.

And with that, I’m outta here for Thanksgiving.

Thank you to everyone who helped me in the past year. It’s been quite a year already and I couldn’t have gotten 45 interviews without a lot of people’s help.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

More than 70 videos. 36 companies. 45 interviews. Whew!

Happy Thanksgiving! All of my shows are listed on the ScobleShow wiki that I just started over on WetPaint.

A few things I hate about my own work so far:

1) My show doesn’t work on iPods. That’ll get fixed in December.
2) My show is only video. I want MP3 versions of everything available.
3) My editing skills suck. Shorter videos would be nice.
4) My audio engineering skills suck. Later videos have two microphones and are better, but overall I need to get better at that.
5) No WMV files available. QuickTime doesn’t work on every system.
6) Many of the interviews would be much better with two cameras, or with a camera person (I did almost all of my own camera work on all this video).

What do you hate about it? What do you like? Which ones are your favorites? How many have you watched?

If you have suggestions for who I should interview, add them to the ScobleShow interview list Wiki that I started on WetPaint.

Oh, and do you like or hate ScobleShow’s new design? I think it’s a big improvement over what I used to have.

Up on ScobleShow today we have a tour of Google Kirkland.

But we have something for you Microsoft fans too! I have an interview with the Microsoft Expression Web management, as well as a very cool demo (that’s a new Web design/development/workflow tool that Microsoft is shipping).

Elsewhere on PodTech is a LunchMeet conversation with Wesabe, which is a financial management site.

That brings me to two months of ScobleShows. I’m preparing a Wiki of all the shows, which will be up shortly.

Now, you know I love TechMeme. Last week I interviewed Kevin Burton, who does Tailrank, so I’ve been giving that a much better looking at than I’ve done recently. Yesterday Megite updated too, so I looked into that.

All three of these are interesting ways to see what the blogosphere is talking about. But, I notice I keep going back to TechMeme, and I think I found the reason why:

More info density per scroll.

But there’s an even better reason: no spam on TechMeme. Yes, it’s elitist, yes, it tracks only a small number of blogs compared to TailRank and Megite (TechMeme tracks a few thousand compared to about 150,000 for TailRank, according to Burton — TechMeme expands daily depending on linking behavior, though, so it’s hard to figure out just how many blogs are being tracked), but the quality on TechMeme is much higher overall, I find.

Here, visit TailRank for the post about Mike Arrington. Can you spot the splogger? Hint, it’s naikmichel, which copies all my content.

But, to me, TechMeme seems to have better choices for its top stories and less scrolling to see more stories. I’m getting to like TailRank, though, it’s definitely coming on strong and is much better than last time I looked at it.

Dave Winer defends Nick Denton and Valleywag today.

Me? I see it a bit differently. I don’t see that Valleywag has noticeably changed its stripes. Yeah, so far they haven’t followed anyone into a bathroom and that is an improvement over the old Valleywag — if it holds.

But, Dave also notes that Valleywag wants to be TechCrunch. I say it can’t do that. Why? Cause TechCrunch is all about building companies and people up while Valleywag is all about tearing companies and people down.

Both functions are needed. If you have hype without anti-hype, no one will believe the stuff that really should be listened to.

It comes from nature. Look at El Capitan in Yosemite. The forces that put El Capitan there are like TechCrunch. The forces (it was a glacier) that dug the valley out and exposed El Capitan for the largest chunk of granite around are like Valleywag.

Why will TechCrunch get the best breaking news (Nick Denton said he was jealous of Mike for getting the YouTube/Google story first)? Cause people like builders more than destructors and will reward that behavior with information sharing more. But, Denton might have the last laugh anyway. Destructors are a lot more entertaining, so I bet that Valleywag will have a bigger audience.

Over on Geek Entertainment TV are some of the top Quake 4 players: the girlz of destruction. I’m more partial to the interview Irina did with the guy who started Alive in Baghdad.

For those who don’t live in the United States this one by Ze Frank probably won’t make all that much sense. But, it’s a funny guide to surviving visits with family.

The tech blogosphere was getting boring for the past few minutes so Emre Sokullu and Richard MacManus saves us from the hell of boredom by talking about the Google OS.

I think they are both drinking better Merlot than I am. Can you send over a bottle?

Why would Google want the hell of doing an OS? They are having a much better time just selling ads on top. And they will continue to be successful at doing that, no matter what Bill Gates says.

The real Google OS, by the way, is what’s running on their datacenters. They have teams doing nothing but writing drivers for disk drives. Why? To make their server OS work better across thousands of servers.

If Google is going to sell an OS, it’ll be a server OS that’ll be a good hosting container for a ton of Web 2008-style services. Doing an OS for a laptop or a desktop? Please.

Got a dog? Or a cat? Hey, Printing for Less guys! (They let employees bring dogs, but not cats to work).

Then you’ll wanna watch Lunch Meet with the folks who do Dogster and Catster. Oh, and they are profitable! Take THAT Web 2.0 skeptics!

Remember the good old days when it used to take Google weeks to index sites? I do. Ahh, the good old days of 2000. Anyway, as richards tirade shows us Google is now building new indexes within two days of the events (I was #1 last night, tonight I’m #31).

This is Jason as we haven’t heard him in years.

Am I doing too much Merlot, or is he asking for a job?

I have a sneaking feeling Jason has a lot more up his sleeve than a mere job.

Hey, Jason, if you’re up in Half Moon Bay, I’d love to buy you a Mojito. Our guest room is open for you anytime too.

Paul Boutin is right with his advice for TechCrunch. Speaking of which, I miss Chris Coulter’s bashing. LayZ needs the competition for coming up with better criticism cause his stuff is just not stinging the way it once used to. Chris is staying at our house. At dinner I was bugging him to start a blog and get back into the criticism game. If Chris wanted to, he could kick butt over Valleywag.

But, speaking of parties, I’m learning a lot more from my interviews than from any parties I’ve been at lately. Spending an hour with someone and asking lots of stupid questions gets more knowledge sharing to happen than any party I’ve ever seen.

The way I’ve been approaching my ScobleShow is I’ve been building my own little technology conference. I’m going with my video camera to people and companies I want to learn something from.

I make it a rule never to film at parties or events. Why? I tried for years to film at Microsoft events and never got good video. Here’s why:

1) It’s not intimate. When you film at an event, there are too many distractions, and the subject isn’t in a comfortable place. Eyes don’t lie, there’s always someone cooler to go and see than hang out with me (at the Laughing Squid Party Kevin Rose was there — there’s NO WAY I’m gonna compete with the guy who created Digg).
2) The lighting sucks. Even Thomas Hawk’s super-dooper fast lenses couldn’t work properly at the Laughing Squid party. If still cameras can’t do their job, don’t expect video to look good.
3) The audio sucks. Too noisy. At one of the Tech Crunch parties I tried to interview the guy who developed Del.icio.us. I couldn’t even hear his answers, so there was no way we were gonna have a good conversation.
4) Video and coverage from events is a commodity. At Laughing Squid there were tons of photographers. Business value comes from scarcity. There’s no way I’m going to get something of value at an event that someone else won’t also get (and will probably get from a nicer angle, or with better microphones, or a better looking host).

Translation: I agree with Doc Searls, you aren’t missing much at San Francisco parties.

There are a couple of HUGE exceptions, though:

1) If your job relies on relationships (like mine does) then going to parties is the best way to build relationships (I collect business cards, then call the people who are doing interesting things later on).
2) If your job relies on being seen and being photographed, then going to parties is a must-do thing. Reminding people you exist does help achieve some goals.
3) Rewarding your friends who’ve helped you out. Scott Beale, for instance, takes constant photos at every SF-area event I’ve been to lately and gives them away for free. So, spending another $100 and going to his party? Done deal. No option, gotta do it. Would be rude not to.

Oh, and getting to ask Kevin Rose for a photo? That’s a good reason too!

Yes, all this stuff is making us nervous. Too much of a reminder of 1999 when big parties happened all the time.

Me? I can’t wait to get to London, Wales, and Amsterdam and see what’s going on there.

One email I’d LOVE to get is Gina Trapani asking to join my network. She does LifeHacker, which is on my short list to get into our network. Oh, heck, Gina is on Jason Calacanis’ list too! Damn, Nick Denton better be giving her big bucks with all this competition to grab her away.

Christian Long asks whether I would link to a 16-year-old’s blog just because he or she asked.

I can’t promise a link. Hell, I can’t even promise I’ll answer the email (I’m only answering one out of 20 emails lately). But, I do read every email and I do consider it, even if only for five seconds.

To earn a link, though, I’d like to see more than just a couple of posts and I’d like to make sure that they add some value for my readers.

What’s tougher than getting a link? Getting me to subscribe. If you get me to subscribe it’s far better than earning a link. Why? Cause then you’ll get on my link blog over and over.

When you watch my videos of SOASTA, a startup in Silicon Valley that’s building an automated Web testing tool (pretty cool, too) you’ll notice that every employee has a 30-inch Apple monitor on their desks. That isn’t all. They also bought every employee two computers: one a MacPro and another a MacBookPro. But even more, they bought everyone a 30-inch monitor for use at home with their MacBookPro.

I asked founder Ken Gardner why he did that and he said he noticed he was a lot more productive when using a 30-inch monitor and he wanted every bit of productivity he could get out his employees so he bought them all two too.

It made me want to work for Ken. And it’s not the only visionary thing he’s done with his company, either. They took the interface from Apple’s Garage Band and put it on enterprise software.

Interview and tour of SOASTA with Ken Gardner is here.
Demo of SOASTA is here.

I love the chart that Paul Kedrosky put on his blog today showing that Google’s market cap now is more than half of Microsoft’s. Read more over on Silicon Valley Watcher.

Jim Cramer, on CNBC today, said Google is going to 750. I love how he added “but it has to get to 600 first.”

The question the market is facing is “can anything slow down Google?”

The third Photowalking is now up on ScobleShow. Part II is here. This is actually not a “walking” one, but we sit down in my home office (Thomas says it’s my mansion, but it really isn’t) with Jan Kabili, who produces the excellent Photoshop Online TV and has written a ton of popular Photoshop books. She teaches Thomas a whole bunch of things about Adobe Photshop and how to use it to make your photography better (the techniques discussed will work with pretty much any photo editing tool). If you’re using a digital SLR, this is one hour that’ll make your photo workflow a lot better.

More on this Photowalking over on Thomas Hawk’s blog.

UPDATE: Congrats to Flickr on adding a new feature today where you can see what camera made the images you’re looking at. That’ll come in useful. But I wonder if it’ll properly track the camera that Flickr’s community manager was using today (Heather Champ was using a Polariod).

“Friends forever,” Chris Pirillo wrote. And what a sunset we saw on Saturday driving back from PodCamp. Life doesn’t get much better than this.

Back at ya buddy.

His wedding is gonna be a lot of fun.

UPDATE: Tom Foremski over on Silicon Valley Watcher videoed Chris (with a bit part by me) at the PodCamp over the weekend about a new content management system he’s working on.

Here’s a 30-minute uncut interview with Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate. Disclaimer, Seagate is my sponsor, so I start the interview with “why are you sponsoring my show?”

His answer? That the people he’s interested in reaching (the younger, more tech hip generation) will watch Internet video.

We talk about a variety of other things about what Seagate is trying to do.

Is this an advertisement? Yes. But it’s not like any advertisement I’ve seen on the Internet or on main stream TV.

“This is not your daddy’s disk drive company,” he says.

Some excerpts:

* Seagate had a tough time getting funding back in 1980. Why? The VCs thought no one would want to buy a 5MB hard drive.
* The way Seagate made their new 750GB drive (largest in the industry) is to stand the magnets on end, like a forest of trees, instead of laying them down like has always been done.
* They are going to go beyond just magnetic storage in future generations to build multi-terabyte drives by heating up and cooling the media to enable even tighter storage.
* Seagate is shipping new kinds of storage devices for Windows Vista that combine hard drives and Flash memory, which will speed up the boot time.
* Every TV in the world will have a hard disk on it, or around it, he says.
* “It’s amazing what shit for brains we have in this industry,” he says, when talking about the standards fight between BlueRay and HD-DVD.
* They sell hard drives into Sony’s cameras (and PlayStation 3 too).
* He wants Seagate to help facilitate content distribution. Putting all movies from, say, a movie studio and put them on a hard drive.
* He says he doesn’t shut down his PC and explains why toward the end of the video.

Sorry about the audio on me (you can hear Bill just fine, but hearing me is a bit tough). This should be the last interview that gets up that was done with one microphone (I’m getting much better about using two microphones).

He’s pretty outspoken for a CEO, among the most interesting of all the CEOs I’ve interviewed.

If you search Google for “richards tirade” you’ll find my blog. I have a feeling they aren’t looking for me, though. I think they are looking for news about Michael Richards’ racist tirade instead. The gossip blogs are going NUTS about it. UPDATE: I fixed Richard’s name, sorry for getting that wrong.

How did I know this? It showed up on my Wordpress search referer page.