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@WhiteGirlProblems Interviewed

TC: Babe, you have over 60,000 followers? Are you surprised by your success?

BW: No.

— Thought Catalog interviews @whitegirlproblems

Formspring as Journalism

Tech Crunch just posted about Seesmic being rocked by Twitter’s move in to 3rd party apps like Tweetie (recently acquired by Twitter, apparently). The post quotes Seesmic founder Loic LeMuer’s Formspring in lieu of an interview:

Q: The “general” thinking is that Twitter will either buy Seesmic, or launch their own Seesmic/Tweetdeck killer, since they’ll eventually need to earn revenue (unless Google acquires them). Thoughts?

Loic: none of that will happem, it would be a disaster for them to compete with their ecosystem, which drives 70% of their traffic

Q: Seesmic stepped away from their proprietary products (video) and latched onto TWITTER – but, isn’t it very dangerous to be 100% tied to a 3rd Party platform where you have no control? Does it worry you?

Loic: not at all, Twitter is very respectful of 3rd party apps and we’re also on Facebook and more social networks

I’m not really interested in the content here as much as the assumed credibility of the Formspring responses. All of the questions are anonymous, however we know that only LeMeur can answer them, so what does it matter who the interviewer is. I guess it’s akin to a talk show taking questions from callers, but Formspring is still different in that time is no longer an issue. Questions can be posed at 3 in the morning and answered a week later, out of order if LeMeur prefers. Obviously he can also ignore questions without anyone knowing.

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"I just love The Grizzly Bear. That project was great. It sounds like these church cathedral chords—it’s just sick what they’re doing."

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-Jay Z, in an interview with The Village Voice. (Note: Grizzly Bear will hereafter be referred to only as The Grizzly Bear.)

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"

Interviewer.: John Lennon, Lady Di or Elvis Presley?

Roberto Bolaño.: The Pogues. Or Suicide. Or Bob Dylan. Well, but let’s not be pretentious: Elvis forever. Elvis and his golden voice, with a sheriff’s badge, driving a Mustang and stuffing himself full of pills.

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—An excerpt from “Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview & Other Conversations,” which was released today, even though Amazon delivered it to the ## office yesterday (!).It’s not like The ## is writing a thesis on him or anything. Swear.