Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote
During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote address Sunday here at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), on-stage interviewer Sarah Lacy out-and-out bombed, becoming much more of the story than she should have been and having the capacity crowd turn on her over the course of the hour discussion.
Posted Mar 10, 2008
Jim Cowie
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Jim Cowie:
It was not a great interview, frankly -- the previous day's interchange between Henry Jenkins and Stephen Johnson, was a much better match of personalities. But the crowd's reaction was over-the-top rude.
todd:
That sounds horrible. Facebook seems like much more of a fluke than a genius idea to me, and I guess I've never seen Zuckerberg say anything interesting about strategy, or vision, or execution--well, about anything actually. So I'm not surprised he's hard to interview well.
todd:
Two quotes from the article are interesting: "The reality is, I thought the substance of her interview was pretty strong. She asked a lot of good questions, including some that put Zuckerberg on the spot. He kept asking her how she had learned about certain points she was asking him about." And: ""Facebook is a phenomenon. The people who are participants in it want to be involved rather than reading it on a blog. I mean, this is the god of Facebook.""
That says it right there. People who eere there were facebook-believers who did not want to see their deity questioned.
Jim Cowie:
"So, I understand you're launching in France tonight?" "Um, ... (awkward silence)" "Oh, sorry, I was supposed to prompt you for that."
Shimon:
If she had taken the feedback and entered Q&A sooner, rather than getting defensive and dismissing the crowd's booing as "the downside of web 2.0", it wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad. Also it would have helped to tone down the flirting... the constant playing with her hair irritated me and several mumblers around me.
aaronh:
colby:
After watching the 60 minutes interview with Zuckerberg, I decded i didn't like Facebook as much as I did before I saw the interview
todd:
he's an interesting character because he is *not* charismatic at all. and yet, he's still successful.
jessica:
