Dag is Famous!
Our very own founder, Dag (aka. Brian Houston) and VideoSift is mentioned in a short write-up over at BrainMates. What you'll find even more interesting there is the streaming audio interview Qantas Radio conducted with Dag. Transcripts are even available from Talking Business with Peter Switzer for those of you who don't understand any English.
What do you guys think of this interview with the Sift God of Sift Gods? Does Dag sound as you had imagined? I have to say I was surprised by the timber in his voice and his sort of sharp, succinct manner of speech. To me, he sounds a little like a politician. ;-P He seems to have even absorbed a bit of an Aussie accent, mate.
As a side note, I don't know why the interviewer says the Sift gets 700k page views a month; we're well above double or even triple that number.
What do you guys think of this interview with the Sift God of Sift Gods? Does Dag sound as you had imagined? I have to say I was surprised by the timber in his voice and his sort of sharp, succinct manner of speech. To me, he sounds a little like a politician. ;-P He seems to have even absorbed a bit of an Aussie accent, mate.
As a side note, I don't know why the interviewer says the Sift gets 700k page views a month; we're well above double or even triple that number.
30 Comments
fireflyAwesome! and yes, dag has quite the radio voice! Thanks for sharing, Lucky
*quality
siftbotGold Star member firefly has awarded lucky760 one published post for this quality Sift Talk contribution.
dotdudeYay dag!
grspecheh, he called us experts.
silvercordheh, heh.
karaidlNice try, Dag, but I'm still not convinced you aren't a robot! You might have the others fooled...
And you said at 2:25 that we have a technology channel! LIES! Lies and slander!
James RoeOdd, I had never heard Dags voice either. Interesting stuff.
karaidl??? But you guys are partners!
lucky760Don't you know anything about computer geeks, karaidl? We don't like to talk to other people, including one another. That's what the Internet's for.
eric3579Nice Dag. Technology channel?
mlxI always thought Dag was sneaky...confirmed. LOL
No really, great interview. Nice voice, too!
pyrexW00t!
dotdudeMonk-
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dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
Thanks all, I've been told I have a good face for radio too.
This interview is a couple months old, or else I would have focused more on Collectives.
I was pretty nervous - definitely out of my geeky comfort zone. They just put you in this little sound booth in a comfy armchair and go, no practice or anything.
It's true that even though Lucky, James and I are partners - we've never actually heard each others voices. It's been kind of a tradition. Now that it's broken though - we've decided to have our first voice conference.
edit: For the technology channel thing, I meant the "geek" channel, but I didn't want to use the term "geek" because the last time I did that in an interview, the word was used repetitively in an annoying way.
Farhad2000Nice interview
swampgirlA voice to go w/ the picture..a nice one too. How could you 3 work together for so long and never once used a phone?
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
Actually, I think James called Lucky once, when the server blew up.
I'll fess up - I think it's me. I have a bit of a phone phobia, I honestly don't like using the phone. :-( It's so much nicer to be able to think about what you communicate, before you do it.
lucky760Boy, you said it brother. I'm not a huge fan of all this on-the-spot communication where your words are transmitted without the chance to proofread them. It's overrated.
James hasn't called me on the phone. Once when he was testing out his GTalk's voice communication he left me a gmail voicemail, but I dodged that bullet and think it's the closest we three've ever come to actually... *gulp* speaking.
karaidlIt won't be much longer until Dag has arm candy hanging off of him (Which I highly disapprove of, because you're married!) and the papparazi snappin' photos.
James RoeIf Dag gets arm candy I at least want a new laptop.
This of course means lucky has us all at a disadvantage having heard both Dag's and my own voice. Cheeky monkey.
pigeon
Farhad2000And now we observe geeks flocking together
dotdudeFarhad2000, you made me think of nickyp's Big Train post:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Train-Working-Class
OK, so they're "working class", not geeks.
thesnipeAs a former commercial DJ myself I think you did a great job. Most stuff we did in house was always live in the studio, only the big name artists would have us pre-record our interview. Very nice job promoting the site and 90% of the people I've interviewed have sounded more nervous than you. I've since gone from commercial broadcast radio to internet radio and would like to grab Dag for an interview.
enderIt's nice to finally hear you Dag. Great interview!
rickegeeI would listen to anything that man has to say about beautiful, sanctified, filthy natural birth.
thesnipe should grab both dag and James, though James' voice is hauntingly reminiscent of Evan O'Dorney
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
Hey that's a good idea, I would love to do a group, casual podcasty type thing.
karaidlOH! A SiftCast! Maybe once a month or something?
FedquipGreat Show Dag, your a media darling
karaidlThis isn't the first time VS has made news... (or at least blogs)
http://www.ck-blog.com/cks_blog/2006/07/video_as_qualit.html
http://www.cornwallseo.com/search/index.php/2007/01/09/is-videosift-the-hangout-for-hot-new-video/
http://theblogreader.net/46/videosiftcom
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/windows/2006/03/13/videosift/
http://www.brainmates.com.au/?page_id=108
http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2007-01-0111-003.shtml
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