Summary: Joshua Schachter, founder of del.icio.us, is someone I’ve wanted to talk to from the very first day of this podcast. As we’ll discuss, del.icio.us …

Summary: Josh Marshall is one of the key people who brought blogging into the realm of serious, award winning and respectable journalism. The story of …

Summary: Well, as we say in this episode, he’ll always be known as the inventor of the hashtag, but Chris Messina has been central to …

Summary: Everyone knows Karen Wickre, because she’s one of those classic connectors. Once we finally got in touch, I wasn’t surprised to learn we knew …

Summary: Kevin Scott is the current Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. We talk about his entire career, how being an academic seemed to be his …

Summary: Today we continue my efforts to preserve the history of the ISP industry. Today it feels like the Internet is simply all around us …

Summary: 20 years ago, the acclaimed documentarian Doug Block released a landmark film, Home Page. Doug’s documentary accidentally chronicled the birth of blogging, featuring several …

Summary: We’ve had a couple of people come on here to discuss how the New York Times got online, but the spiritual yin to their …

  Summary: We’ve had a couple of people come on here to discuss how the New York Times got online, but the spiritual yin to …

Summary: I said in the book, I think TheGlobe.com was the quintessential dot-com company. We spoke to one of the cofounders previously, Todd Krizelman. Todd …

Summary: David Schwartz is the Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, the company behind the cryptocurrency XRP. What is it like to start, build and build …

Summary: Ken Norton is a partner at GV, Alphabets venture capital arm, but before that, he was a product manager at Google, where he led …

Summary: Matt Britton not only sold the first ads to and for Facebook, way back in 2004, he gives us a really insightful and, frankly, …

Summary: I figure most of you should know who Matt Cutts is, but if you don’t, let’s just leave it at this: he’s about to …

Summary: The history of Craig Newmark, craigslist and other odds and ends that didn’t make the book! Listen: Listen Right Here On Web Listen on …

Summary: John McCrea is a Zelig-like personality who pops up in so many of the narratives we’ve already covered: Apple. Netscape. Doing battle with Microsoft. …

Summary: This story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social …

Summary: Lisa Napoli got a job straight out of college at CNN in its earliest days, which is a crazy startup story in it’s own …

Summary: Rosanne Siino has been on my list to talk to from day one of this podcast. As you know, I started by reaching out …

Today we’re going to go back to take a look at early journalism on the web. Karl Mattson helped launched one of the first political …