When it rains it pours once again.
While I was in Milan, I did this interview about The Future of Mobile Games with Paul Hyman of The Hollywood Reporter.
I've done hundreds of interviews in my 31-year career, but this guy was good. Really good. (Check him out at his communication company OpenMoves). More than a Q&A, this was a fencing match, with thrusts, parries and some definite challenges. When I got off the phone with him, I knew this one was gonna end up a little different.
And so it was.
The original ran on Wednesday in the Hollywood Reporter, but was immediately picked up by the influential Game Daily and MoCo News (the ne plus ultra blog of the mobile content industry). Next day, it was lead item in the Consumer Electronics Association's daily SmartBrief.
I got tons of calls, emails of support ("That's what we're all thinking but not saying," what the main message), as well as a couple of "Screw yous."
When you do interviews, it's impossible to know what--if anything!--is gonna connect.
But the way things work now, in what my friends Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan have labeled "The Age of Conversation," you find out almost instantly when something does.