--- title: "Where should I host my interview with Johanna Rothman?" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/13/where-should-i-host-my-interview-with-johanna-rothman.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/13/where-should-i-host-my-interview-with-johanna-rothman.html" published: "2004-12-13T00:12:00" updated: "2004-12-13T00:12:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "This weekend I finished editing my interview with Johanna Rothman . I think it turned out pretty cool (if I do say so myself) and Johanna is a great interviewee. I was thinking were should I host this interview, and…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Where should I host my interview with Johanna Rothman? By Roy Osherove December 13, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published December 13, 2004; technical details may be outdated. This weekend I finished editing my interview with [Johanna Rothman](http://www.jrothman.com/). I think it turned out pretty cool (if I do say so myself) and Johanna is a great interviewee. I was thinking were should I host this interview, and immediately though of two options: 1.  My own site (i have hosting that will allow this, even the bandwidth) 2.  [ITConversations.com](http://www.itconversations.com/) (which is known for having some great content) So, before I decided I contacted Doug Kay, the head chief of RDS software and the person who runs ITConversations.com and after listening to it, he agreed that it is good enough to host. With some conditions: -  I need to cut the interview down to less than an hour (That's cutting at least 10 minutes of good chat), preferably to 45 minutes. -  I need to give them exclusive rights to publish (though I retain the rights to publish if they don't) which means I can't post it on my site (with full content) and on their site as well. So, what do **you** think I should do? _\[**Update** - perhaps I didn't make the point clear enough. The reason they want exclusivity is because Doug will be spending a lot of time editing, uploading and spreading the material around. It's all free content and they want to attract sponsors. That is less likely to happen is for every show they put out there will be a fuller alternative on another site taking away hits. On the other hand, up to 14,000 people can listen on it if it's hosted over there, and will also get a chance to see a link to my blog, so that can't be half bad. \]_ ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Dec 24, 2004 ### [Not dead](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/24/not-dead.html) - Dec 19, 2004 ### [Microsoft Vs. PC Technicians](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/19/microsoft-vs-pc-technicians.html) - Dec 11, 2004 ### [What I look like (kinda)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/11/what-i-look-like-kinda.html) - Dec 9, 2004 ### [Godwin's Law](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/9/godwins-law.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/