Who are you and what do you do?

I’m David Churbuck and I am the Vice President of Global Web Marketing for Lenovo.

What services/products do you offer?

Personal computers: notebooks and desktops. We make ThinkPads and IdeaPads, the Best Engineered PCs in the world.

Who/where is your audience?

Global

What is the website?

Work: http://www.Lenovo.com. Personal: http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress

Well-Funded or Bootstrapped?

Public.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?  10 years?

In five years: Lenovo, the challenges and opportunities are huge. Ten years: building wooden skiffs, writing unpublishable novels, and teaching writing.

Where were you born – where do you live now?

Born in Boston, now live in Cotuit in my Great-great-grandfather’s house.

PC or Mac?

PC of course.

Where did you go to school?

Yale College, BA, 1980

What Social Networks are you on?

Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut, Twitter, Flickr, del.icio.us, etc. Too many.

Greatest invention ever?

TCP/IP and the spork

TCP/IP is the essence of the internet, the thing that makes it free, the thing that makes it belong to no one, not to AOL, not to CompuServe, but to everybody. It is the free railroad car for information. It is the protocol that makes these words get to you.

The spork — I salute the genius who combined the spoon and fork in one utensil.

Person you believe has contributed most to the world of technology?

Douglas Englebart known as the inventor of the computer mouse, but, in some opinions, the true father of the concept of the “personal” computer while at the Stanford Research Institute in the early 70s. A genius and a really good guy. Read “What the Dormouse Said” by John Markoff for the story.

Where have you traveled in your life?

Most of the US, China, India, Europe

Why set up shop on Cape Cod?

Seven generations must have seen something to like. I am 100 yards from some of the best rowing water on the east coast, can live off clams and bluefish, and have the place pretty much to myself from October to May.

5 Websites you go to every day?

Churbuck.com (daily blog post)
Google Reader (other people’s blogs and my RSS feeds
FriendFeed
A series of Cape news sites
And http://summergames.lenovo.com (my summer project is organizing 100 athlete bloggers for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

What’s on your iPod right now?

The last episode of Lost that I watched on the way to Bangalore two weeks ago and a two hour exercise mix I call Power Erg that makes children weep.

What is on your desktop/screensaver right now?

A shot of the Fenway Clubhouse taken from the right field deck at sunset.

You are on a deserted island – do you bring a laptop or book?

Book. Something impenetrable that no person in their right mind would read unless they really were desperate:. Finnigan’s Wake, or Tristam Shandy or anything by Thomas Pynchon. Laptop would be good for 12 hours (if it was a ThinkPad X300 with the extra-battery slice), then what?

Phone call or text message?

Skype (davidchurbuck) or Twitter (@dchurbuck)

Feel free to tell us anything else….?

In the early 90s I helped make a Milli Vanilli video shot here in Cotuit. (I drove the boat)

Thanks, Dave!