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Sarah Lacy & Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: sounds like she Capri Cafaro’d* him but others didn’t like it


I wasn’t there, I don’t know either of them, but I did see the tweets.

This BlogHer post gives a good background on what was happening as Sarah Lacy interviewed the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, at the SXSW conference a couple of days ago.

Thank you to Jen Lemen for posting a link to the video of the interview, now up at Techcrunch, in a comment at the aforementioned BlogHer post.  (Now, if anyone sees a transcript of it…I love those – but in this instance, video is probably better.)

Also recommended is this post by Brian Solis. It’s excellent.  I should be so lucky to be able to interview like Sarah Lacey.  Most people would be.

Watch and comment – how did Lacy do? How did Zuckerberg do? How did the audience do?

*Capri Cafaro-ing

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:19 am March 11th, 2008 in 'Roots News, Blogging, Culture, Marketing, Media, Tech, Women, Writing 

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3 Responses to “Sarah Lacy & Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: sounds like she Capri Cafaro’d* him but others didn’t like it”

  1. 1 dave on March 11th, 2008 6:00 pm

    Honestly? She was awful. Her manner was irritatingly flirtatious, while appearing to be lobbing softballs while her audience wanted to know the gory details.

    Which is fine as far as it goes, but then the one comment she made about how “you do the job if you think it’s so easy.” was over the top and uncalled for. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

    Bottom line, if you’re a journalist and the story is about YOU, something has gone dreadfully horribly wrong. She appears not to understand that.

    http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/11/the-last-lacyzuckerberg-post/

  2. 2 NixGuy.com » A New Media Meltdown on March 11th, 2008 6:06 pm

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  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on March 11th, 2008 8:46 pm

    Thanks for commenting on this, Dave. Were you there or just following? I saw the tweets coming in real-time and know of Zuckerberg but not Sarah Lacy.

    From what I’ve read, from both ends (the totally irate and the more sympathetic let’s learn from this thing), sounds like all the parties had some role to play in how it is that this keynote went flat (or sharp, depending on how you heard it).

    To me, it seems that the organizers have the most to learn – in terms of setting expectations for the audience, the hosts, the interviewer and the interviewee.

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