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I am Barack Obama. Ask me anything.

Often times, when celebrities or famous personalities get interviewed in the press or magazines or go on TV, the line of questioning may not be what you were thinking of.

They may be promoting a book or a movie, but you’re really interested in another facet of their life, which you may never get to know. But when they go onto a platform such as reddit, its basically an open forum where anyone with an account can log in and ask them anything, and have a very good possibility of getting an answer.

A lot of personalities have recently taken to reddit’s AMA (Ask Me Anything) section to conduct informal “interviews”, and I think the benefits are mutual.

We get to know a lot more about them, and they get to spread their beliefs and share their thoughts.

I’ve never really been a reddit user, but I think I’ll start lurking a lot more.

Here are some of the more interesting AMAs I’ll be reading:

• I am Barack Obama, AMA. (The election is less than a month, so it will be good to read)
• I am Christopher Poole (moot, founder of 4chan), AMA.
• I am Joss Whedon, AMA.
• I am Neil Strauss (author of The Game), AMA
• I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, AMA.
• We are Mars Curiosity Rover, AMA

Isn’t the internet wonderful?

Wanna startup? Don’t wanna fail? Then you need to go to Singapore’s first FailCon.

Notable speakers include Ben Huh, Founder of Cheezburger Inc, Russell Simmons, Cofounder at Yelp, Patrick Lee, Cofounder of alivenotdead.com and rottentomatoes.com.

The list includes many other entrepreneurs and VCs. See the full list of speakers and agenda.

Also, because i signed up, and because i’m such a friend, if you register now, you get a 30% discount!

FailCon happens Monday, October 15th, 2012.

Personally, I think its pretty exciting to have these conferences happening and have very notable speakers come in to share their experiences.

Excited to learn more and share after.