When I was researching The New Influencers, I recorded many of my interviews. I realized after the fact that these audio exchanges might be interesting to people who want to learn more about the topic. So, with permission from the subjects, I’ve posted four of the interviews in this section of the site. Several others are in the approval process and I hope to post them shortly.

In the meantime, enjoy these. They’re all among my favorites:

• Doug Kaye talks about his boyhood in the Bay Area and how he developed a fascination and facility with sound engineering. He had all but retired a few years ago. Now, with IT Conversations and Gigavox, he’s doing the most important work he’s ever done.

• David Meerman Scott describes the incredible viral phenomenon that made his self-published e-book the talk of the PR and marketing indsutry. He’s now working on his fourth print book , and his life has changed forever as a result of that early experience.

• If you only know of Dan Bricklin as the father of the electronic spreadsheet, this interview will amaze you. Dan is a gifted programmer, but he is passionate about how information is organized and displayed. At one point during this talk, he takes out the Talmud to show its early innovations in hyperlinking. This is an amazing interview.

• Alex Boese was working on his Ph.D., figuring few people would ever read it. Then he started posting some of his work on the Internet and his life has never been the same. He’s now finishing his second book, and Museum of Hoaxes gets a million visitors a month