Phil Campbell, a streetgeek videographer that resides in the UK.

Who is Phil Campbell?

“I’m a connector, I connect people with like minded people, respectful people, people who has taste in thing they’re passionate about.  Not just passionate people I think a lot of social media people will bang on about passion a lot. I think there are certain levels of passion…”

“I am a very complicated, multi-faceted  person and I am still figuring them out.  I am a old time geek been on the internet a long time and seen things ebb and flow and changed in their usual cycle like music does every three or four years. I am just yea just put in brackets..”

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How did you get started on the internet?

“I ran a bulletin board system back in 98 and it was called Fun D Mental”

“I have always had this weird thing with really short names.”

“I found out about the internet through a friend of mine that said “you want to send email?”. I said “What is email?”. Keep in mind this is 1998 this is ground breaking stuff  I went from CB radio to bulletin board systems to you can send an email to anyone around the world for free.. I thought wow that cool, I’d love a piece of that.”

How did you find out about Disqus?

“One of the biggest problems that I found with um.. using comments was the shear amount of spam. A lot of people don’t recognize… What goes on behind the scenes.”

“Probably about a year ago I saw your founder (Daniel) on Seesmic and interviewed about Disqus..”

“I thought yeah this is cool, I will give it a go.”

If we were to make a feature, which should we have?

“That’s a really good question. You’ve already got the feature I wanted and that was to bring in twitter feeds, and bring in different feeds from everywhere else. I don’t know if you’ve made that fully public yet.. Oh it’s public, very cool. Then I am fully satisfied, I am quite happy. Being a typical geek that I am though, in a months time obviously things will have moved on. I will expect features implemented Giannii but absolutely that was my only feature I really wanted.”

“One of the things with comments is and the thing that has moved on in social media. You have all these wonderful conversation going on outside of our blogs and video sites we don’t host on. We want to pull all that stuff together. You don’t get that with blogging software..”

What are you working on now?

“I am working on a fabulous thing called Rezpondr.om”

“I’m going to give you a little bit of an exclusive. codename doorstepR. It’s using something we used at SXSW to mapping in real time. It is built on top of Rezpondr..”

“It’s a small content producers toolbox..”

“You can aggregate, transcode, and distribute”

What site do you view daily would you like to see Disqus on?

“I would say Techcruch, it gets a hell of a lot of people talking about technology.”

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If you would to hear the full interview in audio visit here. If you would like to learn more about Phil Campbell check out his website, twitter, and Rezpondr.com.

Cheers,