Chelsea Holden Baker, of frog design, looks at how better planning and a different design choice could have changed the outcome of the now-infamous 2008 SXSW discussion between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and reporter Sarah Lacy.
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Tim Leberecht and Adam Richardson both work for Frog Design, a consulting firm specialized in designing innovative products and services for Fortune 500 clients. On the Matter / Anti-Matter blog, they engage in a debate around questions they face day-to-day in their work, using convergence/divergence as a lens through which to look at the pressing issues in business, culture, and technology. What makes a successful convergent product or a successful divergent innovation? Is convergence a myth that users don't really care about, or is the current state of convergence just not satisfying enough for them to embrace? How much divergence of innovation is good, and when does it just become confusing? How do you stay on top of people's ever changing needs and wants?
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I watched the entire interview, and while Lacy's style was very casual, IMO, she was asking some very good questions, and more importantly, getting some good information out of Zuckerberg.
If that's not what the audience / mob wanted too bad. Let them zing the performance when it was over, not act out like a bunch of petulant children.
- by poprockskill March 12, 2008 12:26 PM PDT
- What I find to be the biggest "Train Wreck", this phrase used because it has become the phrase du jour of everyone covering this story, is that sites like CNET are trying to make this story into something of historical importance. What we saw is a bubbly woman with a fun personality interview an extremely boring person, a CEO who, as we know, won't say ANYTHING that we don't expect them to say in the first place. Who decided this guy deserved to be part of one of the most exciting music festivals in North America? To me, THAT'S the "Train Wreck".
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(3 Comments)Do you guys get one "Internet Cool Point" by regurgitating this story each day? Do you get 2 for using the word "Twitter" in the story?
Jeez! 170,000 hits when searching for "SXSW Train Wreck". And we thought the Jamestown Koolaid drinkers were the definition of brainless cult.