Interviewly makes sense of Reddits messy AMAs ift.tt/1kBRpgH (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Reddit AMAs can be interesting and even insightful, but their chaotic layout makes them less than user-friendly. A Web site called Interviewly tries to clear up the chaos. The Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) gives people a chance to interact with celebrities, tech leaders, and other prominent people through Q&A sessions. Anyone who joins in on a Reddit AMA can throw out questions hoping for a response from the interviewee. But actually reading an AMA is a chore as questions, comments, conversation threads, and responses all get jumbled together. Interviewly gives a new paint job to those Reddit interviews so they appear as normal Q&As. You can easily read each question to which the interviewee responded from start to finish. As one example, heres a Reddit AMA with Bill Nye the Science Guy. And heres the same interview cleaned up courtesy of Interviewly. This is how you can tap into Interviewly: Simply fire up the Interviewly Web site. Scroll down the home page to see the more popular and most recent interviews. Clicking a specific category at the top or bottom of the page narrows the focus, so you can check out interviews in TV/film, music, technology, sports, politics, and books. An other category includes miscellaneous interviews. One feature missing on the site is a search option. You can only browse the different categories. But you can always run a Web search for Interviewly followed by the name of a specific person. Interviewly also has a Twitter feed through which you can stay informed about the latest interviews. Interviewly is a side project created by Dan Drabik out of a love for Reddit AMAs, according to its creator. On the sites About page, Drabik explains the process behind Interviewly: Reddit is great, but the format isnt conducive to interviews (so AMAs end up a bit ugly and hard to follow). Ive cleaned them up a bit, added photos, ordered the questions chronologically, and broken them into categories. For now, Ive focused on the interviews of well-known people, but that may expand in the future. Related Links:Bill Gates talks tech with Rolling StoneThis Twitch Plays Pokemon-themed Flappy Bird clone might make the Internet implodeRC helicopters appear to take off with woman in towTech Retrospect: Amazon Prime gets pricier as the Web turns 25Web inventor Berners-Lee to do Reddit AMA Wednesday
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:05:02 +0000
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