I continue guest posting at Crowdsourcing.com and today, still fired up from my last post, which I guess can only be described as “things I hate about “social media,” I decided to try a fun little experiment.
Tired of press releases (and knowing full well that some of the “best” tech-blogs out there just re-hash press releases) I decided to offer up Crowdsourcing.com’s blog as a platform for any startup if they are willing to engage in the following three conditions.
What I proposed
1. As of now, anyone has potential to be the focus of my next post
on Crowdsourcing.com. Yes – you and your garage-based startup could end
up on this blog which is part of the Wired News network. We will link
to you and focus the entire content of the post on what you are doing.
All you need is to have a startup/project/something that is related to
crowdsourcing. (EMAIL ME).
2. You will have to get on AIM, Skype or some other video conference technology so I can interview you (recorded).
3. (and here’s the catch). I will play the part of “mean
interviewer.” I will actively try and find flaws in your site, system
or idea. I will not be nice. I will pretend its been a bad day and nobody brought me coffee. But – if you can make a good case for what you are doing, if
you can convince me, the curmudgeon, I will admit defeat and will sing
your praise from there on out. And – you will have a video
representation of you convincing a cynical jerk about the merits of
your project.
Essentially I’m inviting anyone into a game of conversational poker.
Show me what you got, I’ll show you mine and you have the potential to
come out looking good.
Who wants free press?
Cool idea. Will you be conducting the interviews using a hand puppet a la Loren Feldman?