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Lloyd Davis (@lloyddavis) is Social Artist in Residence at the University of London’s Centre for Creative Collaboration. He blogs at Perfect Path and is best known as the founder of the Tuttle Club, London’s most popular and long-running meetup for anyone interested in the social web.

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Mark Krynsky (@krynsky) of the X PRIZE Foundation & Lifestreamblog.com joins us to talk about competition, cooperation, and the folly of trying to measure online “influence.”

News and Notes:

• M.I.T. Media Lab Names a New Director – New York Times
• New Director of MIT Media Lab Talks of Encouraging Openness – Chronicle of Higher Education
• Peter Thiel Believes the Future Belongs to College Dropouts – The Atlantic
• A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space – Danah Boyd at Zephoria.org
• Bogus Infringement Takedowns And The Danger Of Relying On Third Party Services With No Backbone – Techdirt
• Zephoria Inc.: About to find out how social media really works – Suw Charman-Anderson
• Finding And Buying A Domain Name – Fred Wilson at AVC.com
• Invaders from Mars – Charlie Stross
• Books by Stross at Amazon
• Manifesto: I Am Not a Brand – Maureen Johnson
• Mark’s page at Empire Avenue (“Buy and sell your friends and own anyone on the social web!”)
• Klout is a Good Start But We Need More Ingredients for an Influencer Recipe – Mark Krynsky at Lifestream Blog

Some links and notes related to the X Prize Foundation and other aspects of Mark Krynsky’s work:

• Mark manages the X PRIZE Foundation websites & services.
• A collection of web services used at X PRIZE
• He has been writing about Lifestreaming for over 4 years, and he is currently focusing on social content readers and personal activity data (Lifelogging & Quantified Self)
• The Autonomous Auto X PRIZE
• Gold Rush 2.0: A Case Study of the GoldCorp Challenge – A.C. Preston
• The X Prize Visioneering Workshop

As you listen, you can replay the fascinating conversation from our live chat room here at CoveritLive.

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Andy Carvin (@acarvin) is digital strategist for National Public Radio. He has helped NPR create their pioneering online presence, coordinated multiple crisis camps, and he’s organized the PublicMediaCamp unconference. In recent months, Andy has engaged in a globalized twitter-enabled form of tummelled journalism as he has curated, fact-checked, and shared news from the Arab democratic revolutions (and other international stories).

Heather Gold writes that Andy Carvin may be the most “successful” tummler on the web:

We’ve wanted to have Andy on for some time. I got to know him a while back and noticed how involved he was in the tech community , how open and vulnerable he was on twitter about his own life and things he’s personally coped with and how much he seemed to commit to crisis camps, in which web and IT folks get together and hack on problems to help an ongoing humanitarian crisis, such as the recent earthquake in Japan.

Andy’s commitment and knowledge about the web, community and human rights all converged into a really critical moment for the web on twitter at the end of 2010 as revolution began bubbling in Tunisia. Andy tummeled the hell out of what was going on there on the ground. He then became a key point on the web and for western journalism (possibly beyond the west too, but in the spirit of Andy’s work, we could not verify this so we’re not asserting it). Andy connected first person sources, organizers, social media participants, journalists and many regular folks around the world who just became all of these things as the world was astonished by the organizing and democratic movements that swept through Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

In doing so, Andy showed by example, how to create community, connect people, verify and ask for verification about news. And rather than just being a digital strategist and community advisor at NPR, he now seems to be a journalist and a story as the web, revolution and tummelling shift what all those things mean.

Enjoy our conversation with Andy!

News and Notes

• The Huffington Pose: Using the seductive and tantalizing tricks of a modern-day courtesan, the new media mogul puts a brave new world under her spell – Hephzibah Anderson in ADWEEK
• Here Comes Everybody – Tummlers, Geishas, Animateurs and Chief Conversation Officers help us listen – Kevin Marks at Epeus’ epigone
• The Human Blog – 2006 profile of Arianna Huffington by Emily Nussbaum in New York magazine
• Conversation is the New Attention – Christopher Fahey and Timothy Meaney at A List Apart
• The “Donahue” app – “Ideas and Experiments in the Art of Presenting”
• Heather Gold on Unpresenting
• My Sarah Jane: Remembering Elisabeth Sladen – Tor.com

At 18:08 in this episode, we starting diving deep into Andy Carvin’s work. Here are some links and stories related to his global tummelling:

• We highly recommend you check out the Chirpstory transcript of twitter conversation during the recording of this episode.
• Twitter and the Anti-Playstation Effect on War Coverage – Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc)
• Report: “Digital Natives” a Myth – Suw Charman-Anderson at ComputerWeekly.com
• Marshall Kirkpatrick on Apple, Google and other socially awkward companies – TummelVision Ep. 33, Sept. 2010

While you listen, you can follow the smart comments from our lively chat room by replaying the CoveritLive discussion.

If you’re interested in hearing more conversation with Andy, check out the supplemental discussion in episode “62.5.”

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After the recording of our “official” episode 62 discussion with NPR’s Andy Carvin, we continued for another 45 minutes of in-depth conversation about his work, deeper themes of connectedness, and some insights on the tools and mobile phone Andy uses in his work.

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News and Notes

• The Twitter pile-on – as aggregated by Techmeme
• A sense of bewronging – Doc Searls
• Nobodies: The New Somebodies – Josh McHugh at Forbes.com
• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives – a new book by Steven Levy
• Jane! Stop This Crazy Thing! – Clay and Susan Griffith on “The Jetsons” and dystopia at Tor.com
• The Tragic Death of the Flip – David Pogue at The New York Times