Different Sort Of Transcript

Interesting reading the first Joel/CodingHorrorGuy podcast. They assume nobody will listen and they may be right but they have transcripts online, wiki-provided allegedly for the hearing impaired but I'm guessing will mostly be read by people like me annoyed at the slowness of podcasts. (Perhaps like most "accessibility" work? Or maybe it's a charade to make the emotion of the crowd feel better about helping.)

Anyway I like this -

Atwood: Not to get into butt kissing, but I don’t think anything you've ever written has been bad.

Spolsky: Oh wait, I'll find something.

I take that as a personal challenge. Are you kidding?

Atwood: The stuff that you publicize, you take a lot of care in terms of the way you write it. The way I write is very ‘from the hip’. I don't vet my writing like you do. If you look on Paul Graham’s site, you'll see that each article is proof read by the following ten people.

Spolsky: And then some name dropping.

Atwood: Yeah the name dropping.

Interesting with a meta feel because the real virtue of these podcasts as a whole is that they're unedited versions of people who are famous (perhaps neo-Warhol-style) for their edited selves. I'm sure their authors themselves realize this too. Maybe this is like a Freudian slip blown up into a casual topical diversion.