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20 Questions Interactive Interview

After my recent blog-interview over at Jennifer's History and Stuff, I thought about how an interactive interview could be done that would be interesting enough to hold attention of readers in the short-attention-span theater of blogworld. I recalled the "20 Questions" interviews that once ran in Playboy Magazine (yes, I looked at the pictures AND read the articles...), and how in some of the interviews the questions seem to be spurred by the responses to prior questions in a way that was a little different than a traditional question-answer interview, possibly because of the format of limiting the interview to twenty questions.

Then yesterday, Joe Gandelman of The Moderate Voice posted his responses (in two places, his own weblog and at Dean's World) to some questions posed by LaShawn Barber on blogging. I've always enjoyed Joe's writing and found his career as a professional entertainer interesting. What he revealed in response to the questions on blogging about his motivations made him seem like a good victim candidate for my first "20 Questions Interactive Interview".

I will be sending Joe his first question later today, and I will post each question and answer pair as they are finished in a post that will be kept at the top of the site until the interview is completed. Feel free to send suggestions for questions to me at jack -at- randomfate -dot- net, although I reserve the right to not use any suggested questions.