Being interviewed online via email is an interesting proposition: all the questions are usually rendered before hand, making the interview more of a test or a MadLib than a conversation. It usually feels like you’re talking to a wall. Ideas don’t develop very well, they don’t flow any where. If conversations flow like rivers, this is hanging out in the kid die pool.
I’m currently interviewing several people for an upcoming feature on ForkBombr, and while it is slower, having an actual conversation is just so much better. It is crazy to think anyone would use a standard set of questions in most circumstances.
[via Ian Hines]