Semester 2 Blog 1

Rolling Stone: The Battle For Facebook

Five Questions For Bill Gates

Some things that I think make a good interview is that it contains content that people want to know about, things that are interesting. And sometimes, making the interview short and to the point would work too--I know that I don't want to spend too much time reading one thing. Like the nightly news, people are always going from one story to the next quickly so that they can fit everything into a short amount of time and get on with their lives.

However, even if things are short, concise, and to the point, they still have to make sense. That's what the editing and revision is for--to take an interview that took half an hour to conduct (and then some for follow ups), three hours to transcribe, and ten minutes to read--and turn it into something that takes less that two minutes to read. Not only that, it flows and has some sort of chronological time line or order. In all of this, it's only highlighting the most important information, the things that matter most.