So since 2005, Google has hosted about 600 authors, writers, film makers, musicians, and chefs; for one hour talks, lectures, or interviews.
Predictably, it being Google, there's some pretty hard lefty folks up there; but also predictably for Google, there are a bunch of cool SF authors up there, as well as internet culture commentators, humorists etc...
Coincidentally, I've been going through an extended period of severe insomnia; averaging about two hours of sleep a night since a couple day before Christmas.
Predictably, me being me, since I found the full archive I've been watching them one after another. Of course me being me, I'm still reading my 100+ web sites per day, and I've been reading adventure and SF novels with the interviews as background noise.
Yeah, I believe in information overload.
Actually, the one good thing about insomnia, is that it lets me catch up on reading. My current "to read" pile is up over 200 books; and since the day before Christmas, I've managed to reduce that pile by 13 books... Of course also in that time I've received 9 more...
It never ends.
So I thought I'd post up a list of the ones I dig, that way you don't need to dig through all 600 videos. Oh, and some UNC chapel hill interviews are mixed in there, just because they're good.
Here's one of the funniest ones, from the writer of "Stuff White People Like":
and a great one from Neil Gaiman:
- Google Interviews:
- YouTube - AtGoogleTalks's Channel
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Neil Gaiman
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Neal Stephenson
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Charles Stross
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow
- YouTube - Cory Doctorow: Pwned: How Copyright turns us all into IP ser
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Christian Lander, "Stuff White People Like"
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Marco Pierre White
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Anthony Bourdain
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Mario Batali
- YouTube - Authors@Google: James Randi
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Steve Wozniak
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Stan Lee
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Daniel Wilson & Anna Long
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Greg Bear
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Kyle Cassidy
- YouTube - Authors@google: Gary Vaynerchuk
- YouTube - Authors@ Google: Joe Haldeman
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Bjorn Lomborg
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Douglas Engelbart
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Steven Levy
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Lawrence Lessig
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Masaharu Morimoto
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Michael Carroll
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Robert Frank
- YouTube - Authors@Google: James Watson
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Jeffrey Kluger
- YouTube - Authors@Google: David Michaels
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Alex Roy
- YouTube - Authors@Google - Chris Anderson
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Dan Ariely
- YouTube - Authors@Google: Eric Ripert
- YouTube - Authors@google: Sam Gosling
The Woz one is amazing, but the audio and video quality are crap. It's worth it if you're into that geek history thing, but it might irritate you too much.
Anyway, I know my audience, y'all are probably going to waste as much time as I have... or at least proportionally.
