Ambush Interview #123 MediaGuy

great interview so far

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Good to see Greg getting grilled!

This a great read Media, can't wait to see more. Thanks for bringin sexy back Scotty

10. How did you get involved with 2much?

Basically I've known Mark Prince since high school, around September 1980. We actually took "Data Processing" classes and learned how to enter data by making little holes in punchcards, frack me!

I knew him when he started his BBS he hosted on his home TRS 80, called "Datamate". People posted to each other and got to know each other and arranged GTs or Get-Togethers and even instant-messaged each other live.

Pretty impressive, but I wasn't so techy and the first time I got a computer was years later, a 386 IBM clone running MS DOS and a word processor!! I had joined the technological revolution and stopped typing on typewriters :P

Anyhow we went our separate ways when I ended up married and living in farmland, but he started contacting me about commissioning scripts for video projects for the web. I had experience in writing in general, and did some script doctoring at some point so I knew what he wanted without him explaining it.

And, since I had shooting and editing experience, he would get me to come down, learn the new tools and cut those together, driving down to Montreal on Friday and back three hours both ways to get back to the farm Monday morning at 5:00 AM.

Seeing what could be done, Mark hatched more project ideas and was basically ready for me when my marriage nuked out and I hopped a bus back to Montreal (my wife had totalled my car, but that's another story).

So I started in the old 2much offices 6 years ago learning first the programs to do what I wanted to do, and then new things you could do on the web. But the video thing was a little too ambitious, and I started wondering how come search engines had nothing about us... which took me back to words, and writing...

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Nice to see ambush interviews are back! They're the most entertaining thing on GFY

YAY!! Ambushes are back!!!

Great read too!

Just great! I can just see all you fucks following Greg around all night at this year's Qwebec Expo, Lipstick and markers in hand, drooling.... waiting.... "woah! Is asleep yet? Lets go! No no wait wait he just opened his eyes. Ok everyone act natural".

Missed these Sleazy, good to see them back.

Great interview, can't wait to read more Greg!

100 Ambush Interviews

Woot Sleazy, welcome back! I look forward to getting to know more people. Great interview!

That's MediaGUY... I'm sure Media would appreciate the distinction (he's someone else on here )


Why... thank you. Unles you meant Scotty??

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DAMN ya beat me to it! I was on the phone!!

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