Catching up on old WallStrip interviews… good bits from NBC Integrated Media’s Beth Comstock:

“If you have great content, if you can tell good stories, you’re always going to find distribution platforms.”
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“Pre-roll ads, I’d short those, but I think what we have to do as an industry is figure out more innovative ways to do pre-roll ads because if you’re looking at them on the Internet they can’t be like television.”

The truth is I only watch WallStrip intermittently because I can’t save the file to put on the iPod to watch later — I’ve never been able to get a single podcast from iTunes, they always time out — maybe it’s a China thing? Anyway, I enjoyed this interview with Jimmy Wales, including this bit:

“Lately I’ve been on a huge Facebook kick. Mark Zuckerberg… he’s got it figured out. [He’s] very focused on the product and not abusing the customer which is very different from MySpace, which seems to be all about abusing the customer as hard as possible to monetize the site before it collapses.”

Quick link to all WallStrip videos at YouTube.

(Sorting that list by “Most Viewed” is interesting — Lindsay in a bikini I understand, but Discovery (DISCA) with 68,000+ views? What gives?)

Hey what do you know, CBS bought WallStrip. That’s great news for Howard and the lovely Lindsay and the crew of prematurely balding yet enthusiastic young men who make the show happen, congratulations!

Howard, I’m good for more than the occasional link; you should have asked me for some money, damn it. ;-)