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Tara Hunt, tummler par excellence, entrepreneur, and author of The Whuffie Factor, talks with Deborah Schultz and Kevin Marks about Wikileaks, the demise of Delicious, the uses of Twitter, the essence of “Whuffie,” and her new social shopping start-up Shwowp.

“Every time I post to a social tool I feel like I’m losing the stitches of my life into a vortex” -Tara Hunt

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Willow Witte of Join The Impact talks with Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and guest host Sarah Dopp about gender, political organizing online, and queer activism in response to California’s Proposition 8.

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Social philosopher and webthropologist Stowe Boyd joins the TummelVision crew to talk about social cognition, coding gender, and “betweenness.”

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Heather Woodbury joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz to talk about culture, the social web, and performance art.

Called “a one woman Dickens” by Laurie Anderson, Heather’s work encompasses scores of characters in novelistic performances (see, for example, videos from her piece “As the Globe Warms“).

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Huffduff It [what?]

The TummelVision gang visits with an old friend, Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Some of the ideas, stories, and links mentioned in this episode:

The new “social web browser” RockMelt

Novelist Zadie Smith critiques social networks in the New York Review of Books

Intelligent responses to Zadie Smith from Alexis Madrigal and Ross Douthat

Doc on Walt Whitman

Randy Farmer on why “The Cake is a Lie” – Reputation, Facebook Apps, and “Consent” User Interfaces

Doc on the “Data Bubble”

The Wall Street Journal series on web privacy “What They Know”

A call for a new “Consumer Bill of Rights”

The Vendor Relationship Management Project wiki

Kevin Kelly on the Internet as an enormous copy machine

On the meaning of “trust” in digital parlance.

Be sure to follow Doc Searls on twitter and via his myriad projects.