this is my first time listening to gillmor. i don't like it. steve gillmor is a rude interviewer. i bailed after 11mins. he's pushing friendfeed to clone twitter. they don't want to. he should let it go or build this clone himself - @baratunde

Baratunde: you should listen after I come in. I want some of the same things. My four features I want? 1. XMPP so I can get FF in real time and talk with it via Google Talk. 2. SMS compatibility so I can get to it during disasters on my cell phone. 3. Much better filtering and querying abilities (aka Twitter's Track). 4. Ways to privately message people. That sure sounds a lot like I want FF to clone Twitter, but on the other hand, I don't want to lose FF's unique features, either. - Robert Scoble

Baratunde: start listening at about 33 minutes in. - Robert Scoble

Chris: that's exactly what he was doing. And I think he's right to do so. I hope they listen. - Robert Scoble

Plus, a big reason a lot of us do this is to have our side of the story heard. If we don't get to do that, then this turns into a job and/or a PR event. Screw that. - Robert Scoble

Baratunde: you should especially listen at about 50 minutes when Marc Canter gives Steve Gillmor crap and he explains himself. "All the heroin has been taken off the streets." - Robert Scoble

Baratunde - I agree with you. Gillmor is a bit of a snob and very interrupty. - Dino

I've listened to a few of these shows now, and though I agree that Gillmor is very rude and agressive I think he gets a very difficult job done, there are quite a few big ego's he has to deal with on his show - Stephen B from Alert Thingy

The last few minutes of the show were funny too, where Gillmor thanked the FF guys for putting up with his BS. - Robert Scoble

known steve for years but can't listen to him podcast, to cantankerous, feel the same about mike vizard & he's a good friend :( - mike "glemak" dunn

Wasn't that rude. Though the stuff with Chris Saad - wow. I was listening live on Ustream and it was *awkward* - Jamie

Was my first time listening to Gillmore as well. The devil's advocate, "squeaky wheel" attitude works for him to a point. Some interesting arguments got fleshed out but I don't think I could listen to him for as long as I did in this interview. Things got better when Robert was able to chime in. - James

Robert! No wonder you seem so bitter or angry lately. Get off of that show man. FIrst time listening, and it was BRUTAL! - E.B. from Alert Thingy

I listen to the Gillmor gang for the same reason I listen to right wing radio sometimes. To remind myself that I am sane :) - Deepak Singh

I was a long time Gang listener, but I stopped when they went to Podshow, lost Jon Udell, and started splitting the show into 18 pieces. I've tried to go back a couple of times, but I just don't enjoy Calacanis or Arrington. It's just not a thoughtful show any longer. - Ryan Toohil

@ Ryan listen to the show with Chris Messina the other day. Brilliant stuff - Jamie

Agreed. That was the best Gang I've heard in a long long time (like Ryan, I miss Udell, Carr and the likes). - Deepak Singh

horrible quality - horrible interviewer - but it´s about FF, so I had to listen *gg*...via feedalizr - Dieter Schwarz

whoops. i left this thread for a bit. I will give the show a chance and listen through till the end in the next few days. thanks - @baratunde

i finally listened to the rest of the show. you were right robert. it got better and more interesting. i get gillmor's style a bit more. still think he's a bit coarse, but listening to the entire show allowed me to see where he was coming from and why. i have a lot of respect for friendfeed for participating in such an exchange. i definitely learned a lot from all of you - @baratunde

IMHO, placing Friendfeed in a "Twitter box" in terms of discussing it (by the show, not by Robert!) does a disservice to the company (Friendfeed) which should be judged on its own merits. - Alex Hammer

Finally listening to this one. I suspect there's a vast global conspiracy to keep me from hearing this. - Ha3rvey #teamMonique