Who Else Should We Interview?

Hello. My Name is Fire; this is my internet nickname online. I was wondering if you have ever taken a different view in interviewing? We would love you to interview a Paranormal Investigations Team, but not someone already famous like T.A.P.S. Did you know how much work and effort, compassion and dedication a real paranormal investigator must have to be able to offer their services? Especially for those that are not in the limelight of the field. We deal with a lot and help a lot. We offer help when sometimes nobody else would. Well anyway, that is just a big suggestion from us at Voices In the Dark Paranormal Investigations. Here is our mypace link, you really should read the article I wrote that only blazed the aspects of what it takes to do what we do. And my team, we love it!

With success,
Voices In the Dark

link: http://www.myspace.com/voicesxinxthexdark

Phipps is Sun Microsystems chief of open source software, a strategy the company has fully committed to as key to its long term growth and profitability. Sun claims to be the single largest contributor to open source software of any institution on Earth. It would be great to get his perspective on the implications of open source for a Fortune 500 firm so steeped in open source culture.

Yaron Koren, based in Brooklyn, is involved in several relevant projects.

Two of his creations that work in tandem are Discourse DB and the 'Semantic Forms' extension for MediaWiki. Discourse DB is a wiki that organizes "the opinions of the world's journalists and commentators about ongoing political events and issues." (So this clearly fits well with the 'crowdsourced journalism' topic, one of the five main AZ focus areas.) It has a highly stuctured backend to map the "semantic" relationships of the data that users enter, but the most innovative feature of the site, the Semantic Forms extension, allows for a more intuitive user interface than most semantic applications. While the Semantic Forms extension is in a very early phase, it does look promising, and anyone can download it for use with his/her own MediaWiki-based wiki.

Another project is Betocracy, which Yaron is currently spending less time on but which remains active. It's billed as "the simplest way to create your own prediction markets in order to predict future outcomes such as year-end corporate revenues, or popular events like elections and sports competitions."

Since time is short and since I've been in contact with Yaron recently, I'll go ahead take care of the interview if nobody has objections.

How about Chris Larsen, CEO of Prosper.com? Prosper.com works like Kiva, which is on your list, but instead of being a nonprofit, lenders earn interest on the loans they make to other Americans. They claim it works like Ebay, except instead of bidding on items, users bid on interest rates.

sent in by Ian Elwood -

1. Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen inventors of "Free Beer" an actual set of recipes that can be used to make beer and are licensed under Creative Commons.

http://www.superflex.net/information/contact.shtml

http://www.freebeer.org

2. Richard Stallman, prbably just because he started it all (GPL).

http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html

3. Crowd sourcing Education Interview any one of the professors, including DJ Spooky, Donna Haraway or Jean Baudrillard

European Graudate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland.
http://www.egs.edu/
http://www.egsuniversity.org/

"Ho poche idee, ma fisse". Fabrizio de André

The authors of Manituana, a crowdsourced literary world, deserve an interview by ZA.

I could agree to interview one of them after their book presentation at Lugano, Switzerland, next 8th June. But maybe too late. Otherwise, here is the calendar of presentations in May, and perhaps someone else in Italy can take the assignment.

Michael Tippett from NowPublic, the world's largest participatory news network.

Canadian online education maverick/czar.
http://www.downes.ca/about.htm