At first I thought a talk with Phil Noble about Politics might be boring (even though I am a big fan of West Wing) but I was pleasently surprised by our talk. :)

We talk about his company Politics Online, how politicians do understand the net (or not) and what he sees for the future of politics.

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• what is Politics Online about?


• why don't I just go to my newspaper site?


• what is the vision and has it come true?


• the fascination individuals are impowered by the net


• spend time with things which will change the world


• what is the major difference between european and american politics?


• his idea why the french have so many blogs ;)


• examples of the impact of technology on both sides


• often forgotten: John Kerry raised most of his money online


• how he is surprised that there are not many more independet organisations in Europe


• which european politicians really impress him


• differences between older and younger people in using technology


• how excited he is to meet everybody in Paris

Additional mentioned links: Jib Jab and Move On

Tim Bonnemann has transcribed a part of this interview. (thx)

Tag(s): leweb, leweb3, pre conference podcast, interview, politics online, phil noble,

Second guest is Tristan Nitot of Mozilla Europe - and we start of with statistics as well, but let that not keep you away from listening to him.

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• the role of Mozilla Europe and why Firefox is important to the internet society


• why privacy concerns may help Firefox numbers in Europe


• how he got involved with Mozilla Europe


• why normal people still do not use Firefox and how to set them up correctly


• IE 7 and how it is nice to see Microsoft back in the game


• the open nature of Firefox and the great extension system


• the surprising fact that you can make a living out of open source and that it really worked


• innovation are great!


• more choices help everyone and do push standards

Tag(s): leweb, leweb3, pre conference podcast, tristan nitot, mozilla europe, firefox, ie7

First interview guest is David Sifry of Technorati. He does post regulary the "state of the blogosphere" but hearing those numbers is a bit different than just reading them. Topics include:

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• development in the international blogosphere, especially the problems in France and Korea


• the language barrier and how Technorati deals with it


• the state of the spam blogs and what Technorati does about it


• how a tool like openid is relevant for a company like Technorati


• a link to last years interview with David Sifry for LesBlogs

David is going on a photowalk in Paris, read more information about this on his blog.

Tag(s): leweb, leweb3, pre conference podcast, david sifry, technorati