Gadgets are like pets for geeks and the argument is shielded by the competent geeks and divas residing amongst EliteBloggers. Whilst yesterday we had with us Gina Hughes from TechieDiva ruling the face of our series and today we are in high spirit with another proficient geek. Mark Wilson, associate editor, Gizmodo made an entry into blogosphere in 2006 with a video shoot at E3 for Kotaku followed by running a This Day in Gaming series at Kotaku and “Frankenreviews” over at Gizmodo. During all this time, Mark was engaged in a day job in commercial production. Later in July 2007, he took a call to be a full-time blogger writing half days for Giz and Kotaku. And gone May onwards, he transitioned full time with just Gizmodo.

Lately seen occupied with WWDC to populate us with updates on iPhone 3G, Mark managed to devote time for EliteChoice readers and fellow bloggers’ with his interesting pool of responses. The geek in him is all set to welcome a day when robots would be efficient enough to blog. This is what he has to say: And as long as I have a robot that buys my food and pays my rent, that’s just fine with me

Here is Mark, all set to give vent to his geeky juices so don’t think, just roll over to know more about this tech spy:

Introduce yourself to my readers and take us to the flow of your day at work.
Hey, I’m Mark Wilson, Associate Editor at Gizmodo. I’ve taken a bit of a tour at Gawker Media, having written for about two years at various capacities for both Gizmodo and Kotaku (tech and video games). Now I’ve settled in to a fairly typical routine. I roll out of bed around 6:45 and go right to work on Giz.

I catch up on any news I’ve missed while sleeping before impatiently refreshing my RSS for the next 8 hours. Usually, I write until around 3:00 without any major breaks. Then I’ll take care of any outstanding emails and keep a general eye on my posts for the next half hour or so. Depending on my energy level from there, I’ll make myself get outside for a run. While I don’t formally work for the rest of the day, I’ll definitely check in on the site through the evening or work on various features.

When did you sense an inclination towards blogging? Are you satisfied with the functionality of the blogging eco-system or think there is a need for revamp?
Before I wrote for Gizmodo, I read them incessantly. I found myself linking friends on their stories daily along with my own little quips. After a while it was pretty obvious that I was, to some small extent, blogging already.

Is it there a need for a revamp? I’m not sure. The constant, linear updates of a blog are very addicting to read. And the short to medium length articles are perfect for sneaking a 5-minute break from whatever office jobs our readers are supposed to be doing. That’s not to say things won’t continue to evolve “ but blogs have certainly stuck a chord with what/how the general populace is looking to read at the time being.

What is your take on the growing nature of concept-based products? Considering the advancement in technology, don’t you think these products would be of no relevance by the time they become functional, if ever?
Concepts keep us all excited about the industry. Think about Star Wars “ better still “ think about the works of Jules Verne or Isaac Asimov. These writers predicted all sorts of things we’re seeing happening already. And in some ways, they surely shaped the imaginations of those who made today possible.

Darren Rowse from Problogger has talked about five emerging trends in blogging. Do you agree with him or feel the need to update the list?

I’m really not a blog design expert. I consider myself a writer who happens to write on a blog. But I will say that Multiple Author Blogs and Blogs Converging With Other Types Of Sites aren’t what I’d call emerging trends but things that have been around for years now.

Tell us about your ˜must-read’ or favorites blogs?
Obviously all the big tech blogs are on that list. But I enjoy the micro niche content in my spare time “ stuff like NadShot.com. I mean, here’s a blog totally devoted to illustrations of comic book characters getting hit in the nuts. Brilliant! I have a penchant for foodie blogs as well.

What all innovations in the tech industry have influenced you lately? What is the extreme of technology that you can figure put in your wildest thoughts?
Multi-touch and high speed (3G+) wireless access both have me pretty excited right now. Multi-touch is really the biggest innovation we’ve had in UI since the mouse. As for high-speed tech with areas like the 900Mhz spectrum, how can a constant connection to the world’s knowledge not be exciting? But that’s just a small chunk of it

I’m fascinated by what we’re doing with low-power tech, like LEDs, which keep getting brighter every year. There are plenty of people working on paintable displays. Think about it – you paint your living room and anything can be the TV. And e-ink this list is getting long. I guess that’s why I write about gadgets.

As for the ultimate technology, who isn’t fascinated by the potential of nanobots repairing their bodies, or beaming images straight to the optic nerves in their brains?

Besides content generation, networking comes as a part and parcel of a blogging. What is Gizmodo or Mark doing at that front to maintain the frequent visits of its savvy readers?

We have one staffer who’s in charge of our feature content, Wilson Rothman. He does amazing networking for our site, keeping us in the loop with major companies and their newest products. That means he sends emails, makes phone calls and takes a lot of meetings to check out new gear “ even if he can’t write about it, etc.

I find it’s good to send an email a day beyond my normal social network. Sometimes I email a company’s PR team for info on a product, and sometimes I just email another writer as a hat tip to their work. Wow, I just made myself sound so organized. I’m really not. I just try to follow up with people on the things that interest me. It makes networking a whole lot more tangible and reasonable.

Japan seems to breed robots in huge numbers. Can you imagine a day when robots are efficient enough to substitute humans for all major tasks? Would you depute one to blog for you?
I think it’s pretty undeniable that robots will one day help us with just about everything we can imagine (before overthrowing us, eating our brains, etc). But when Asimo fell, it really put things in perspective for me “ seriously. Here’s the world’s most fawned-upon robot and it falls down staged stairs during a simple demonstration. That’s not to say Honda had failed with the technology; it just showed how freaking hard that bipedal robots are to make.
Sure, robots will be able to blog one day. And as long as I have a robot that buys my food and pays my rent, that’s just fine with me.

How was your experience while writing This Day in Gaming at Kotaku doing Frankenreviews on Gizmodo?
This Day in Gaming (TDIG) was even more challenging than I had imagined. Since it was a daily retrospective on video games (a sort of if today is your birthday horoscope with factual content), it took weeks of nonstop work to develop my game history database (incomplete as it may have been) and lots of additional source checking each day on top of that. That said, TDIG did seem to amass a loyal following. And it did so with the type of original, daily content that I bet could drive growth in a smaller blog.

Frankenreviews started on Gizmodo where we experimented with various new takes on the standard review roundup. We tried all sorts of things to combine these voices into one big review. I was really proud of the work from a technical standpoint, but it was a complicated writing exercise that never really gelled for me or the readers. On Kotaku, we started with a more simplistic list of quotes that worked well from the start. I learned so much about review style after closely reading so many reviews that I eventually wrote an editorial on the topic, Video Game Reviews Are Broken, Please Fix. It was generally well received, and it was a nice way to gauge what I had learned by writing so many Frankenreviews. Anyone can paste a bunch of quotes in succession. Hopefully by putting as much thought and care into this as possible, I’ve been able to construct review roundups better than the average monkey with a typewriter.

Kotaku is a place for Gamers while Gizmodo focuses upon gadgets and technology. What made you switch from Kotaku to Gizmodo?
I’d have loved to continue writing for both blogs indefinitely, but the transition was a depressingly logistical one. Both Giz and Kotaku demand a lot of trade show attendance. If you figure that each site demands 5 trips a year (which might be an underestimate) that means I’m on the road at some point every month and away from one of the two sites. This meant that I was able to double-dip a plane ticket to Germany for back-to-back video game and tech conferences, but it also meant that someone inevitably was covering for me somewhere.

Provide us with your five favorite posts you have written to date.
How my wife castrated my DVD collection
Video Game Reviews Are Broken, Please Fix
Halo3, The Ride, Hands-on
How To Launch an Apple Product in 5 Easy Steps?
Excuse Box: No Reason To Tell The Truth

Introduce us to your three gadgetry possessions that you can’t afford to miss while stepping out.
iPod nano, MacBooke Pro, Samsung A900

Which cell phone do you have right now and what do you love/hate about it?
I have a Samsung A900. It was the phone that Sprint acquired to counter the RAZR (so yeah, I’m about up with my current contract). I love that it’s durable and thin. I hate that it’s not a smartphone and is generally bad at text messaging/email/staying on/etc.

What upcoming gadget you want to possess and are impatient about?
A 3G iPhone would make me very happy as long as it doesn’t get any thicker. I really like to have a pocketable phone. (Note: I attended WWDC in the middle of this interview and it’s here now!)

You’re stranded on a desert island: What gadget do you bring?
A satellite telephone, so I can get the hell off after a few months of relaxation.

How would you like to be known as:
Gadget Guru:
Blogger:
Technophile:
Product Reviewer:
Entrepreneur
Others

Umm entertaining and knowledgeable.

Quick bites:
Biggest blogging mistake you did: It’s all repressed at the end of a day.
If asked to post only on one blog (not Gizmodo or Kotaku), which one would that be? Boing Boing, if they’d have me
If asked to post only on one blog (not Gizmodo or Kotaku), which one would that be? Boing Boing, if they’d have me
Advice you would have given yourself five years ago? It never hurts to ask.
If not a blogger, then A failing screenwriter or poor short story author.
Life without Internet: Not so bad, just inconvenient.
Count of professions you have been into: 3
First gadget you kept your fingers upon: Nintendo Entertainment System
One thing you hate about Gizmodo: Sometimes it feels like Menudo.

Tell us some weird things about you that most of the people don’t know.
Hmm, I met my wife in high school. I guess that’s kind of weird, but it’s always felt pretty normal to me.

If asked for giving three tips to a greenhorn blogger, what would that be?
1. Keep writing (because that’s what makes you better at writing).
2. Writing without first person fallbacks will give you more authority.
3. Read something that’s not from a blog/online at lease once a day.

Is it good to have an individual identity of a blog or run it as a part of a blogging network?

I’ve actually never started a blog “ even a personal one. Gizmodo obviously has a lot of sister sites through Gawker, and it works for us. Aside from convenient cross-site promotion of big events, our head editors have other head editors to consult as needed.
Then again, affiliation with other sites that aren’t very good could hurt a perfectly good site’s reputation. Luckily for Giz, our sister sites set a high standard.

Do you think blogs are or can be as popular as NYTimes, Time, NewsWeek are?
Blogs are inherently on niche topics and this question weighs them against general news publications “ that’s a bit tough to compare by nature. I will say that the fact that all three of those publications have blogs is a testament to the format.

Imagine a day when you are forced to stay away from blogging and gadgets. How would you cope with it?
I did that for a week in the Virgin Islands a few months back. And I didn’t miss it. Then again, I got to sit on the beach all day where nothing was expected of me. To be productive in the current labor force, you need things like Blackberries just to keep up. And the more you like your gear, the more pleasant a day at work will be.

Where do you see the Blogosphere in the future?
Written by robots.

Give us your views on EliteChoice.
I like anyone who likes me.

Whom would you recommend as my next EliteBlogger and Why?
Grab Luke Plunkett or Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku. They work internationally and on a graveyard shift but still manage to draw an audience.

You can ask me one question.
One question in trade for like 50?? I’m not so sure that’s a fair deal!
Zola: But I believe everything is fair in love, war and blogging. Kidding! Mark, I really do respect the time you have devoted in penning down the interesting responses.

And here i personally thank Mark for managing and meeting deadline besides being occupied with WWDC. Mark, we here at EliteChoice love you and your work!

Today we are delighted to have John Biggs, a familiar name over the biggest database on Earth: the INTERNET with us amongst our lively EliteBlogger series. Currently holding the flag of CrunchGear, a daily journal of all things gadget-tastic as an editor-in-chief, Biggs is mesmerized by revolutionary gadgets, gizmos, gears, technology, computer hardware and keeps himself engaged interacting with them via CrunchGear.

Having evolved as a New York-based author and consultant and written articles for publications viz. The New York Times, insyncmag, Men’s Health, Linux Journal, Popular Science and others, Bigg had an honor to work with Gizmodo team as a News Editor before leading the CrunchGear crew. Feeding its tech-hungry readers as a part of Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch Network, Bigg chooses to ignore the labels of author, blogger, entrepreneur, and shares: I’d like to be known as a guy who likes gadgets and writes about them. This is a platform that walks in synergy with the next-generation tech and aims to keep you connected, entertained, and educated.

Here I invite technophiles, techie divas and geeks to know more about this super-secret tech spy:

Introduce yourself and take us to the flow of day at work?
I wake up in the morning and write into the evening. Sometimes I go to meetings, sometimes I eat.

Having engaged with CrunchGear since its Inception in August 2006 and produced 2,430 posts, what do you think is its USP against gamut of other gadget and technology related blogs?
Since we’ve started I think we’re in the Technorati Top 100 and one of the more popular gadget blogs out there. It’s a big horse race and there are a few folks in the lead but it’s anybody’s win right now.

What does your book Black Hat talks about? What made you write this book?
I wrote it as a discussion of security from a layperson’s point of view. Rather than offer advice, I tried to demystify the hacker mystique.

When did you sense an inclination towards blogging?
I became a blogger when I was laid off from print and now I’ll never go back. The magazine I left is now trying to do what I do with considerably more efficiency and speed. It’s quite ironic.

Tell us about your ‘must-read’ or favorites blogs?
BoingBoing and TechMeme are the only sites I visit in a browser.

Provide us with your five favorite posts you have written till date.
Like my children, they’re all my favorites.

Whom do you admire the most in the blogging community and why?
I admire my team. They’re a great group of guys who come from all walks of life to come together to produce an amazing site. We basically come together each morning to cover the tech industry from all over the world. I also really like Joel Johnson, who taught me everything I know.

What all innovations in the tech industry have influenced you lately? What is the extreme of technology that you can figure put in your wildest thoughts?
Nothing. The tech industry is stagnant offering only incremental changes. All it takes is to make something so unusual the iPhone, for example and the whole industry is in an uproar. They worry more about the color of the case than what is inside.

What cell phone do you have right now and what do you love/hate about it?
The iPhone. I hate that it’s not the 3G iPhone

How would you like to be known as?
Author
Blogger
Entrepreneur
Others

I’d like to be known as a guy who likes gadgets and writes about them.

What all-marketing strategies you follow to invite readers?
Nothing. If you build it they will come.

Introduce us to your three gadgetry possessions that you can’t afford to miss while stepping out.
My Omega Seamaster Chronograph, my Kindle, and my keys.

Quick bites:
Hours you invest digging net: 24
Advice you would have given yourself five years ago? I would have told myself to buy a house in Europe.
If not a blogger, then a drinker.
Life without Internet: Unimaginable.
Count of professions you have been into: 3
First gadget you kept your fingers upon: My legos.

Where do you see the Blogosphere in the future?
On the Internet.

If asked for giving three tips to a greenhorn blogger, what would that be?
Try to find an established blog to intern for. Work for free. Get to know the great bloggers. Don’t expect to start a blog and become a millionaire. It rarely happens. In fact it’s only happened once.

Is it good to have an individual identity of a blog or run it as a part of a community?
It ’s good to be individual. Communities are loud.

What piece of advice you would have given yourself five-years ago?
Invest in pork futures.

Whom would you recommend for being featured as my next EliteBlogger?
Joel Johnson, a freelance technology writer living and working in New York.

Give us your views on EliteChoice.It’s great.

You can ask me one question.
Why are you doing this?
I made a late entry into the blogosphere ecosystem (late 2006). And within months I could feel the loneliness here. Throughout day I use to engage myself playing posts over my blogs and every day proved to be a learning experience for me. Then also, I could sense something is missing. My touch with fellow bloggers! And then I kicked off strongly to do something different and ended up delivering my first round-up of 2007-Elite Blogs.

But still the distance between me and them remained and I ventured into taking my argument further of bringing the hidden faces behind all the EliteBlogs onto EliteChoice. Hence today you are here and in a way I know you with hopes to stay in touch with you. What had you thought about me for bringing forward this initiative?

Here i thank John Biggs for extracting time from his busy sked and writing back to me his interesting set of responses. Wish you luck John!

Today I take pride in having Charlie White with me here at Elite Choice, and I’m sure it’s going to be true bliss for my readers as well. For this installment, I wish I could revise my title from “Elite Blogger” to “Elite Blogebrity” as befits this established and experienced mammal of the blogging eco-system, but in the interest of consistency, I apologize for sticking to the latter.

When I approached him, asking if he would be interested in sharing his knowledge with my readers, his response was, “Sure, I’d be happy to.” That’s when my respect for him increased twofold, because even though the guy was engaged in a number of things, he still found time for us. When we caught up with Charlie, he was on his way to LA, visiting Dreamworks on a hot and confidential story, but soon thereafter quickly answered my list of questions.

White is now Associate Editor of an NBC Universal technology and consumer electronics site, Dvice. Prior to this, he was busy adding value to tech site Gizmodo by bringing 11 years of experience to the table, improving its readership from 7 million page views per month to 84 million monthly page views within 2 years, writing 4484 posts, including features, reviews and news stories.

Did I tell you he is an Emmy-award winning television professional and a professional musician who holds a double major from the University of Miami in music and television?

White is a quick, confident and honest person and it is quite apparent from his responses.

Tell us about your flow of day at work?

I work nine to five. First I read about 150 RSS feeds, finding out what has been done already. Then I write a couple of posts, and usually work on a feature, or review something fun. At lunchtime, I do a quick 2K walk around the neighborhood, a nice way to clear the mind. I wrap it up by 5, unless Stephen Schleicher and I are working on our podcast, Coolness Roundup. We goof around with that until 6:30 on Fridays. It’s all a whole lot of fun.

When did you sense an inclination towards blogging? Are you satisfied with the functionality of the blogging eco-system or think there is a need for revamp?
I liked Gizmodo and noticed the site’s writing style was similar to my own, so I kind of fell into it. I complained about all the grammatical errors on the site, and then they hired me to fix them. That turned into writing for the site, numerous posts a day for two years.
The blogging eco-system ? The blogosphere is due for a shakeup, because there are too many duplicates without any analysis or context added. Blogging is evolving into feature writing and reviews, moving in the direction of hard-core journalism. That’s good. Original content rules; copycats will die.

The maturity in blogging was sensed when many established blogging networks today picked it in 2002-2003. Do you think there is any scope left for evolving bloggers to try their luck?
There’s always room for good writing and keen insight.

What expertise did you bring to Dvice and what skills do you think have advanced from your position at Gizmodo?
I carefully choose my stories and know where to look for them. I have TV and video experience, which may come in handy when working for a site that’s part of NBC Universal. Also, I’ve been writing for a long time and have developed my own style. Finally, I am able to come up with dozens of ideas at a time, and I’m willing to take chances that could result in sudden, explosive growth.

What level of difference/value addition are you going to offer at Dvice? Having written 4484 posts for Gizmodo and around 150 plus published articles for other channels, is there a set number of posts that you wish to deliver at Dvice?
I hope to offer more unexpected commentary and context to my work at DVICE. I will strive to write things no one has thought of before. How many posts will I write? If I had a crystal ball, I could answer that one, but I am extremely happy working for DVICE. I have a great boss there at 30 Rock in New York, Pete Pachal, who gives me freedom to write about a variety of topics and is a pain-free, surgical editor with a heart of gold. It’s close to an ideal situation for me.

Your, I-have list captures around 230 episodes. It would be difficult but still if you can pick any five things from the list that you take pride in.
That list has more trivia than accomplishments, written for the sheer fun of it. But if I had to pick, these five would be landmarks, in order of occurrence:

• Recorded an album for CBS Records
• Directed a large number of live national television broadcasts
• Won an Emmy Award
• Designed and supervised construction to completion of a 3500-square-foot house
• Wrote 4484 posts for Gizmodo over two years

What factors convinced you to switch from print and TV to online and to be more specific blogging? Which one would you count as the best phase of your growth cycle viz. print, online or present blogging?
I had been working in broadcasting since I was in college in 1974, and I was getting fed up with my job at a public TV station where it seemed like everyone was just sleepwalking through their jobs and waiting for retirement. I had dabbled in writing for magazines had a column in three different trade pubs for six years so when the dot-com boom happened, I couldn’t resist jumping into it full time. Over those years, I was writing between 200,000 and 500,000 words per year. Meanwhile, I took the national PBS cooking series I was working on with me, freelance executive producing/directing it myself for one more season for broadcast on PBS. Best phase? I’ve seen the most personal growth with online writing, learning a lot, meeting a lot of interesting people, traveling the world and discovering how hard I can work without dying.

You have been a producer, director, editor, designer, radio announcer, Videographer, camera operator and much more across all four verticals i.e. radio, print, TV and online. After experimenting with numerous avatars, what next dress rehearsal is on cards for Charlie?
Let’s get this straight: This is not a dress rehearsal! Everything we do is for keeps. Next, I’ll help to build DVICE into an even better site than it is now, making it more original, insightful and entertaining unlike anything else on the web. Aside from DVICE, my business partner Stephen Schleicher and I are also working on syndicating our growing webcast, Coolness Roundup, as a national radio broadcast. I also might do a few more video projects here and there. On the home front, I’m going green, designing a completely off-the-grid house, to be constructed in 2012.

Can my savvy readers and fellow bloggers seek at least 10 tips from you that enabled you generate 84 million page views per month at Gizmodo? Besides posting, what all practices you use to exercise to invite readers.
1. Fresh ideas
2. Sharp writing
3. Interesting topics
4. Consistent posting
5. Accuracy
6. Humor
7. Promotion
8. Link generosity
9. Context in every post
10. Be a watchdog, not a lapdog

Your viral video was viewed more than 2.7 million times. What do you think is the reason that led to its phenomenal visibility?
It’s goofy, unusual and there’s never been anything like it. But the biggest reason: its title, GPS Gang Bang. Do you think the word Gang Bang had something to do with it?

Tell us about your ‘must-read’ or favorite blogs?
I always keep up with (and usually avoid duplicating) whatever Gizmodo and Engadget are gushing about. I read tons of blogs. If you want to be a good blogger, you first need to see what everyone else is doing, and then don’t do that. Well, unless it’s a huge story, and then you must make that story your own.

How active are you on social networking sites/engines viz. Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon or Reddit?
I am crazy about StumbleUpon. I never use Delicious or Reddit, and I check into Digg every day. On Digg, sometimes I’m frustrated by the negative comments from people who have done nothing, know nothing and have nothing better to do. The level of discourse is digging down to the depths of YouTube comments. So social networking is a mixed bag for me.

How would you like to be known as:

• Gadget Guru
• Blogger
• Technophile
• Product Reviewer
• Multi-tasker
• Entrepreneur
• Others

I want to be known as a good husband to my wife and a good father to my daughter. What everyone else thinks of me pales by comparison. I would like to be known as someone who enjoys life and is fun to be with, and whose writing is equally fun to read.

Provide us with your five favorite posts you have written to date.
Monday Night Football: Behind the Scenes

James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Can Prove $7250 Speaker Cables Are Better

10 Things to Know When Buying an HD Camcorder

SHIFT: Are solid-state drives really better than hard disks?

Top 10 world-changing electric cars

Introduce us to your three gadgetry possessions that you can’t afford to miss while stepping out.
Dash Navigator, the best GPS device yet. Connected to the web, acts as a probe for other Dash users. Someday all GPS units will be made this way.

Nikon D300 with 18-200mm VR lens: The best DSLR for the money. Great versatility, accurate exposure, perfect colors, excellent lens selection, solid feel, intuitive controls, easy navigation with custom menus.

WiLife security cameras to protect my house while I’m out. Plugs into the wall, cameras watch everything even when you can’t. Great deterrent.

Where do you see the Blogosphere in the future?
The money makers will be narrowed down to a few hundred, they will be the magazines of the future. Millions of hobbyists will keep on blogging, but most of their work will be more akin to typing than writing.

Quick bites:

Hours you invest digging net: 3 hr./day

Biggest blogging mistake you did: Didn’t start a blog in 2000 when I was already writing articles that were blog-like

One hidden truth: I am a supertaster

If asked to post only on one blog (not Gizmodo, Dvice, Coolness RoundUp, PopSci, Wired), which one would that be? Charliewhite.net

Advice you would have given yourself five years ago? Start a gadget blog, and call it Coolness Roundup.

If not a blogger, then a TV director

Life without Internet: either vacation or dark ages

Count of professions you have been into: four

First gadget you kept your fingers upon: Kodak Instamatic camera

Tell us some weird things about you that most of the people don’t know.

• I am curious about how old the trees are in my yard, and which species they are.
• I have been playing guitar for 40 years.
• I like fancy plumbing fixtures, faucets, high-end plumbing tech.
• I wonder why people are more attached to animals now than they were 30 years ago.
• I hear music playing in my head almost all the time.
• I have a collection of trade show badges numbering in the hundreds, and another collection of stickers I’ve been sticking on a trash can I’ve had for 30 years.
• I still like to watch my wife walk by; she’s as graceful as a ballerina

Give us your honest views on EliteChoice.
Smart blog, nice design and a little tightening in writing can make it much better.

Whom would you recommend for being featured as my next EliteBlogger and why?
Talk to Brian Lam from Gizmodo, he’s a good friend and will have some cogent comments for you.

You can ask me one question.
What made you decide to do profiles like this? I think it’s a good idea.
To be honest, three things:
a) Be friends with people like you
b) Generate a platform where bloggers directly can share their experiences at blogosphere
c) I believe in USPs and this move gives me one.

Many thanks Charlie for your notable presence here and we wish you luck for your future ventures and explorations.