i was recently lucky enough to be invited to be interviewed by ryan havoc for his site havoc inspired. ryan has started a new series of interviews with web folks about how they got into the industry and where there careers began.

you can check out the interview below:-

i’d encourage you to visit ryan’s site. other interviews so far include paul boag and drew mclellan, both truly amazing guys. ryan’s done a great job and i hear there are plenty more cool interviews to come, no doubt a lot more interesting than mine

me xox

so today, i sent a tweet-out (boy i should copyright that term) to ask in your honest opinion the people that are must-follows… it had a good response and so i thought that i would post the results here:-

** Merlin Mann (hotdogsladies)
** Kevin Rose (kevinrose)
** Alex Albrecht (alexalbrecht)
** Jeff Cannata (jeffcannata)
** Dan Trachtenberg (dannytrs)
** Michael Arrington (techcrunch)
** Paul Boag (boagworld)
** Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman)
** Brightkite (brightkite)
** Paul Lomax (paullomax)
** James Whatley (whatleydude)
** Ryan Carson (ryancarson)
** London Events (londonevents)
** eChuckles (echuckles)

interesting that the top results kind of reflected those of the most popular twitter users published here, which makes sense if you think about it. it did get me to thinking about people that you should be following in different fields depending on your interests. then there’s the whole issue of wanting to follow someone because you respect their work even though they may send more personal tweets that tweets with gems of knowledge.

so the conclusion that i came to is that i’m going to get a study squat on and put together a list of twitterati that you need to be following under each categories. the categories that i have so far are industry, design, development, entrepreneurs and social media. please leave a comment below if there’s someone you’d like to be considered for the list or other categories you’d be interested in seeing. this is for you after all!



p.s. thanks to all you lovely folks that said me, but let’s face it you’re going to be biased as you were following me in the first place. i still love you more for it though, you’re the best!!