Tummelvision

Tummelvision 103 Kio Stark: Stranger Studies, Incubating Emotions and Naming Lipstick Colours

Kevin Marks — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:12:20 +0000

Kio Stark stops into Tummelvision to discuss – you guessed it – how people relate with & to technology! Kio teaches about human social dynamics at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Topics include Kio’s ITP syllabus, “bro-gramming”, Zuck’s hoodie, instruments for triangulation, systems of acknowledgement and the tower of Babel that comes from an outward-focussed web.

The group makes a very important distinction that what draws most people online is connectivity – not just information – and that we are in the “nursery school” stage of development as far as building social spaces that work online.

Chat Transcript & Storify Recap

Tummelvision 100: Paul Ford, Andy Baio on the Facebook acquisition of Instagram, buying ‘community” and the New Aesthetic.

Kevin Marks — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:35:55 +0000

“You can’t have art without resistance in the materials”

Quoting William Morris, Paul Ford explains that when he wants to learn something he goes out and finds the appropriate software. In the limits of the software you might find a community.

Twelve year olds are now saying Facebook is for old people and Heather makes a 12-year-old’s face at the thought of Facebook buying Instagram. The group discusses Instagram’s future within the walls of Facebook. Will it get dragged into the Menlo Park swamp or will it go the way of Youtube? An almost purely mobile photo app with few features, Instagram is applauded as a less judgmental environment for people who don’t know how to shoot real photographs.

Spontaneity ensues as Andy Baio stops by. He is the founder of Upcoming.org, a former CTO of Kickstarter.com, and author of the Waxy.org blog. Andy is a less hopeful and thinks Instagram could very well get sawed into pieces. The conversation turns to “The New Aesthetics” – a phenomenon that Andy says smells like machine vision. Paul Ford weighs in on the topic by way of Aaron Cope and Heather by way of Bruce Sterlings’ closing talk at SXSW.

Here is a link to the entire chat transcript and a highlight reel of the show via Storify!

Show links:

Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out | Paul Ford | New York Magazine

Adobe Photoshop File Formats Specification | Adobe

What The Tech Pundits Don’t Get About Facebook’s $1B Instagram Deal | Cliff Kuang | FastCoDesign

Heather’s Instagram reaction to Facebook’s acquisition

Grab Instagrams with GramGrab

Reaction Pictures & Emoticons | MyFaceWhen

Wikipedia list of Acquisitions by Facebook

Facebook is for Old People | Patrick Moorehead | Techpinions

Instagram’s Buyout: How Does It Measure Up? | Andy Baio | Waxy.org (Wired)

An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Bruce Sterling | Wired

Why the New Aesthetic isn’t about 8bit retro, the Robot Readable World, computer vision and pirates | Rev Dan Cat

The New Aesthetic | James Bridle

the new aesthetic | Aaron Straup Cope SXSW 2012

Bruce Sterlings closing talk of SXSW 2012

Tummelvision 99: Bravo for Silicon Valley – Reality, Bubbles, Glasses and emoting through technology

Kevin Marks — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:46:45 +0000

Heather Gold and Kevin Marks on Tummeling, Bubbles, and how media representations affect how people believe.

Full chat transcript available here.

Tummelvision 98: Back from hiatus. SXSW, Mike Daisey and sexism in tech

Deb Schultz — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:30:43 +0000

We’re back. Heather, Debs and Kevin talk about the tummeling stories we’ve missed over the last month.

Here’s the chat transcript in full

Some related links below:

SXSW 2012: A decidedly different show - PR attendance up a whopping 30%

Mike Daisey vs Journalism: Ethan Zuckerman, Director of MIT Center for Civic Media [Tummelvision guest Episode 71]on the Mike Daisey Apple in China media vs journalism vs truth kerfuffle

Sexism in tech – yes, that topic again. Where we are “shocked, shocked to find sexism in tech”. Charles Arthur of The Guardian used storify to brilliantly summarize the latest uproar

Temporary hiatus – Feb 23rd

heathergold — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:36:14 +0000

We’re sorry to say that TummelVision is on temporary hiatus to deal with family priorities. There will be no show Feb 23rd and we’ll keep you updated here. Interim assignment: Buy a drink for someone you don’t know and get back to us about how it went.

TummelVision 96: David Weinberger on how the Net changes the way we think

heathergold — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:14:24 +0000

David Weinberge r really is the perfect TummelVision guest. He’s an Internet philosopher who focuses on the big picture of how we learn and what the Net is reflecting and doing to our culture. His current book is Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room.

It’s a subtitle almost as big as the Internet itself but it reflects how little concise vocabulary we have (“tummel” anyone?) to reflect the changing reality of the way we’re operating in a more networked world. Often David’s work is explaining things that are realities that any person who is “of the web” or really lives with this midset and trust level knows intrinsically.

On some level the Net itself may be doing the same thing for a reality that was always there: everything connected and flowing… all the intelligence you could ever need just right there outside you, but something we weren’t as aware of in the left-brain rational era and culture until we built something that made us *think* about this as we made it.

David has all kinds of impressive formal affiliations and qualifications, like being a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, a Co-Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and being a guy who got a PhD in philosophy and who wrote jokes for a Woody Allen comic strip. But what’s more impressive to me is that he doesn’t just noodle around abstractly about how life is meaningful, but lives in the moment as an affable guy who cares about connecting and does just that.David’s first book The Cluetrain Manifesto was written with a few other savvy cohorts in 2000 (inc. TummelVision 42 guest Doc Searls) and put into clear language and awareness outside the smallish world of dedicated netizens the way that sharing and conversations work and the way the Net made these things the new picks and shovels of business and any functioning institutional infrastructure.

Links discussed in this episode:

Too Big to Know
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - Douglas Adams in 1999
It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? - John Battelle’s Search Blog
SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals of the Web – Jaron Lanier at NYTimes.com
If Google predicts your future, will it be a cliché? - Kevin Marks

TummelVision 95: Amy Muller of Get Satisfaction on accidental start-ups, community managers, social CRM and what it takes to “get it”

Deb Schultz — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:52:21 +0000

This past week celebrated the third annual “Community Manager Appreciation Day“. As I saw the tweets roll by, I realized I have become increasingly frustrated and worried that the roll of Community Manager is not yet defined as strategic and is often viewed through a singular marketing/support lens. I worry that if we don’t elevate the conversation, the role of Community Manager is endangered of going the way of the Webmaster in the 90′s – relegated to a support position. The Webmasters of yesterday are the innovators and digital thinkers of today. These uniquely talented folks that are community managers posses many of the skills of the Tummler. When Kevin, Heather and I started Tummelvision, we specifically chose a new word because we strongly believe this is not a role but a way of thriving in a networked age. It requires design, tech and human skills and can live anywhere in an organization. Tummlers and tummeling embody the future. In a world that is no longer command and control – everyone needs to understand “the tummel”. As we see things, the role of the CEO is that of a “community manager”!

With this is mind, we invited Amy Muller (@amygsfn) to be this week’s Tummelvision guest. Amy is what we call a natural Tummler. Connecting people and companies is pretty much akin to breathing for her. In her current incarnation, Amy is co-founder of Get Satisfaction where she helps to lead the charge of building relationships with customers through Community. She also trains and educates those same customers on how to effectively grow and manage their own customer communities. She has been in the trenches and understands that ‘designing for community” is not just about launching a facebook page or twitter account – it’s an attitude. Just take a look at the groundbreaking Company Customer Pact and you know that thriving in a networked world is territory she understands.

We specifically send a shout out to the world of hardworking folks known as community managers so we can start building some conversational bridges that broaden and deepen the discussion around catalyzing and connecting people in a networked world.

TummelVision 94: Willo O’Brien on Entrepreneurial Creatives and the Creative Economy

heathergold — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:42 +0000

I first met Willo O’Brien (@willotoons) because, well, it’s hard not to meet Willo O’Brien in the San Francisco geek world. She loves people, knows what’s up and loves to make connections. Willo is an illustrator who built a successful design business called Willotoons with t-shirts,cards, websites and all the cuteness you could want to buy. In the classic early web 2.0 era way, she mixed her own expression and connecting with early adoption of blogging and most of the new mediums. She shared a lot, speaking and meeting in life and online, about how she was doing what she was doing with other creative entrepreneurs. This path brought her together with the other co-founders of Stitch Labs where Willo is the VP of Marketing. Stitch provides infrastructure and savvy for entrepreneurial creatives who sell on Etsy and online. You can find Willo everywhere online, as willotoons.

If you’re trying to understand how to work in a more fluid economy, how your life and work integrate healthily and how the economy itself will shift as growth comes more and more from creativity, Willo O’Brien is a woman worth listening to. Oh, and if you want to get the fluid process of living with social media without all the slimy sensation that comes from self-professed gurus, please listen.

TummelVision 93: Yoz Grahame on games, emotion, Second Life, Ning, and more

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:33:17 +0000

Yoz Grahame (@yoz) talks about online games, real emotion, Douglas Adams, Second Life, Ning, and all manner of online communities.

TummelVision 92: Amber Case on Geoloqi, quantified selves, and emotion

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:01:33 +0000

Amber Case (@caseorganic) joins us to talk about emotion, cyber anthropology, Geoloqi, and the quantified self.

TummelVision 91: Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:08:55 +0000

Maciej Ceglowski (@pinboard) joins us to talk about the sustainability of online services, artisanal software, and ardent fan fiction communities. We highly recommend his Pinboard.in bookmarking service and his blog Idle Words.

TummelVision 90: Quinn Norton on SOPA!, Occupy!, and our new SEO keyword “stochastic”

Andrew Hazlett — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:08:57 +0000

Journalist Quinn Norton (@QuinnNorton) joins us to talk #SOPA and #Occupy and to introduce us to our new SEO keyword: “stochastic.”

TummelVision 89: Alex Howard on #SOPA, Gov 2.0, and Congressional tech literacy

Andrew Hazlett — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:28:33 +0000

Alex Howard (@digiphile) of O’Reilly Media joins the gang to talk #sopa, the state of Congressional tech literacy, and Gov 2.0 in general.

TummelVision 88: Adriana Lukas on Heterarchy

Andrew Hazlett — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:02:53 +0000

Adriana Lukas (@adriana872) joins us to talk about her research on heterarchy and many other fascinating topics.

TummelVision 86: Kestrin Pantera on karaoke, cellos, and #occupy

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:29:19 +0000

Kestrin Pantera @kestrin is an actor, cellist, and mobile karaoke bar impressario. She joins Heather and Kevin to talk about the RVIP Lounge, the #Occupy movement, and her creative work. Kestrin gets into the transcendent and emergent moments of tummeling, performance, and how you draw someone into something they might be nervous about.

TummelVision 85: Jill Slater on urban planning, sustainable food, and catalyzing a hora

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:39:40 +0000

Jill Slater (@jilber) joins the gang to discuss everything from sustainable food and urban planning to Jewish traditions and modern Israel. She covers everything from how to teach awkward teens to dance the hora and to designing a lively urban space.

TummelVision 84: Grant McCracken on culture, corporations, and collaboration

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:36:13 +0000

Grant McCracken (@grant27 | cultureby.com) is an anthropologist. He’s been director of the Institute of Contemporary Culture, senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, and research affiliate at C3 at MIT. He’s the author of Culture and Consumption, Culture and Consumption II, Plenitude, Big Hair, The Long Interview, Flock and Flow, Transformations and Chief Culture Officer.

TummelVision 83: Deanna Zandt, Dorian Taylor, and ContactCon

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:20:20 +0000

Fresh from #ContactCon in New York, the gang connects with Deanna Zandt (@randomdeanna) and Dorian Taylor (@doriantaylor) to talk about privilege, taxonomies, social media alchemy, and the economics of cultural production.

Notes and Links:

Christopher Alexander on A Pattern Language
Deanna Zandt: “we walk in many worlds and belong to none”
Creative Generalist
Everything is Miscellaneous
Prototype theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin and Susan Squier
Dorian Taylor on “Moving Society Past Information Hegemony”
The Tyranny of Structureless
Kevin Marks: “taxonomies are a hangover from the physical world”
Kavin Marks: “says @doriantaylor ‘so I’m working with a directed graph’ ‘you mean a tree?’ ‘no I mean a graph’”
Kevin Marks: “says @randomdeanna “privilege is a headache that you don’t know you don’t have” @heathr Like having an Apple experience, not Windows”
Heather Gold: “I just asked: how much of privilege is only knowing one taxonomy?”
Heather Gold: “‘Real communities are there before you actually need them.’ -@debs #tummel (you can’t parachute in and have ppl just respond)”
David Graeber “On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet”
Kevin Marks on “Emergent Aristocracy”
Tony Comstock on “Climax Ecology: Learning to See the Forest for the Trees”
Feministe: Steven Greenstreet proves he’s definitely not a misogynist by making rape jokes
CyborgCamp2010-SallyApplin | Strange Love Live (Talk Show) on blip.tv

Be sure to check out TummelVision sponsor Hover for all your domain name needs. Use promo code “tummel” for a ten percent discount!

TummelVision 82: Tummlers of Occupy Wall Street

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:11:09 +0000

A just-in-the-family episode featuring a deep discussion of the Occupy Wall Street movement with Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz.

If you need to register or transfer domain names, be sure to visit our wonderful sponsor Hover. Use the promo code “tummel” and receive 10% off!

TummelVision 81: Mark Pesce on Steve Jobs, collaboration, and the sources of creativity

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:13:29 +0000

In the first TummelVision episode of the post-Steve Jobs era, the gang is joined by Mark Pesce @mpesce, an inventor, writer, entrepreneur, educator and broadcaster.

Mark joined us from Australia where he teaches at the University of Sydney’s Digital Cultures Program. He is at work on a book project entitled The Next Billion Seconds and blogs at The Human Network

Be sure to try out TummelVision’s wonderful new sponsor: Hover

Links and Comments from this episode:

Deb Schultz comments in the documentary MacHeads
Matt Bai on “What Steve Jobs Understood That Our Politicians Don’t” in the New York Times
Andy Warhol’s Meeting With Steve Jobs
Amazing true tales of Steve Jobs and Apple at Folklore.org
The Osborne effect
Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies – The Onion
MacWorld Boston 1997 – Steve Jobs returns – Bill Gates appeares on-screen
Women of Apple & Working With Steve Jobs
An encounter with one of the last of the original tummlers, Fyvush Finkel
Ada Lovelace Day

And remember to visit Hover for all your web domain needs!

TummelVision 78: Jim Bower

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:44:15 +0000

Jim Bower (@superid101) joins us to discuss his work with Whyville, animal husbandry, and computational neuroscience.

Notes & Links

Bower Lab
Numedeon, Inc.
Heather: “Whyville is 1st site we’ve heard of that allows avatar changes in context response: taping -bullies get avatars duct taped“
The view from Salesforce where Kevin, Deb, and Heather broadcast together for the first time in ages.

Your vacation viewing assignment

Andrew Hazlett — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:14:30 +0000

On September 8th, TummelVision will return in its full glory, but during our brief summer break/burning man respite, we invite you to dip into our catalog of dozens of fascinating discussions with remarkable guests. In particular, this week we’re enjoying this wonderful conversation with the legendary songwriter and tummler Allee Willis from our show’s fifth episode in glorious TWiT network video format. Check out the show notes for more about Allee, or just dive in!

Got To Shake It Up Now w/Allee Willis – Tummelvision Ep. 5 from heather gold on Vimeo.

TummelVision 77: Paul Adams on Google, Facebook, and Social Circles

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:13:05 +0000

Erstwhile Googler, now Facebooker Paul Adams (@padday) joins us to talk about his insights on “circles” and the relationship between real-life and online social networks.

Notes & Links

Culture Kitchen SF
Building a Hacker Culture in Uruguay – OSCON 2011
Scotland Yard considered shutting down Twitter – Telegraph
Paul Adam’s news-making slide deck – The Real Life Social Network
Heather, Kevin, and Deb at SXSW 2012 – Social Media Influence: We Call Bullshit
Cooking – Stack Exchange
LinkedIn map of Kevin Marks’s professional network
Kevin on “Tags and cognitive load”

Replay the whole back channel discussion via CoverItLive here.

TummelVision 75: Liz Lawley

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 02:18:38 +0000

Social computing scientist Liz Lawley discusses pseudonymity and anonymity, the fallacy of influence, and the serious work of games and fun on the web.

Follow the discussion that unfolded during the recording at CoveritLive.

TummelVision 74: Dan Gillmor

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:48:04 +0000

Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) teaches digital media entrepreneurship and is founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Dan Gillmor’s current book project is Mediactive and you can find him on Google+.

As you listen to this episode of TummelVision, follow the chat transcript from CoveritLive.

TummelVision 73: Clive Thompson on continuous mass conversations and the future of thought in the age of machines

Andrew Hazlett — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:16:21 +0000

Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) on tummelling at the essential social tool of the future, the web’s social backbone, continuous mass conversations, and the future of thought in the age of machines.

Click here to replay the live chat.

TummelVision 72: Ellen Dudley on Crowdscanner, werewolves, and improving real-life conversation

Andrew Hazlett — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:43:33 +0000

Ellen Dudley of Crowdscanner joins us to talk about social interaction tools, werewolves, and improving real-life conversation.

Click here to replay the live chat.

TummelVision 71: Ethan Zuckerman on Google Plus, fan fiction, serendipity, and universal imperfect multilingualism

Andrew Hazlett — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:56:56 +0000

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab. He joins us to talk about Google Plus, fan fiction, serendipity, and universal imperfect multilingualism.

Click here to replay the live chat.

TummelVision 70: Dina Mehta on Google Plus, disaster tummelling, and global community

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:05:28 +0000

Dina Mehta of convo.org joins us from Mumbai/Bombay to talk about the advent of Google+, connecting people online in times of crisis, and global conversation and community.

Click here to replay the live chat.

TummelVision 69: Dan Gould on Namesake, conversation, and schooling the New York Times

Andrew Hazlett — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:52:33 +0000

Dan Gould is founder of Namesake, a new online business community centered around conversations. He joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz to talk about the project, as well as recent events at the intersection of tech, culture, and people. Check out the Namesake conversation about Tummeling and revisit the live chatroom discussion from Cover It Live.

TummelVision 68: Sarah Szalavitz on story, social design, Hollywood and imposters

heathergold — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:54:37 +0000

Sarah Szalavitz (@dearsarah) does social design under her company Robot7 and teaches at the MIT Media Lab. Her background was in law and then Hollywood. A self-described “champagne socialist,” she did deals for Michael Eisner’s web video venture Veoh and has been one of the key people connecting filmed entertainment to the network economy. Her focus is now much broader than Hollywood and she focuses on systems and questions. As she says “now everyone makes media….how do we encourage people to participate.”

Storified notes from the conversation are here.

TummelVision 67: Tantek Çelik explains open web standards for poets

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:18:23 +0000

Tantek Çelik is an independent technologist, writer, teacher… the notorious @t on twitter… and a vocal proponent of open web standards. In the wake of the Schema announcement, Tantek joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about the present and future of the social graph, openness, and living online.

Notes and Notes:

Tantek’s book: HTML5 Now: A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Getting Started Today
New York Times editor Bill Keller on Twitter
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen tweeted: Jill Abramson took six months off as Times managing editor to learn digital http://nyti.ms/denx5J She returned in five: http://bit.ly/aafNMx
HuffPo: Bill Keller To Be Replaced By Jill Abramson As ‘New York Times’ Executive Editor
Jaron Lanier and his book You are Not a Gadget
YouTube Now Lets You License Videos Under Creative Commons (Remixers, Rejoice)
One example of a “social graph” (that is, Tantek’s)
IndieWebCamp
About Microformats
The Microformats crew on “how to agree on a standard“
An example of a Microformats-based search result: http://lockerz.com/s/107152515
Eli Pariser on The Filter Bubble
Google, Bing, and Yahoo’s “Schema.org“
More about RDF: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Cory Doctorow on “metacrap“
Clay Shirky on The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
@debs: via @t “the way you make standards works is not through fiat but through community – you need agreement across silos”
Check out the TummelVision itunes page: subscribe, download, review!

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

TummelVision 66: Eli Pariser on The Filter Bubble

Andrew Hazlett — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:10:37 +0000

Eli Pariser is an online organizer and disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and now the board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and the author of The Filter Bubble.

This week on TummelVision, Eli joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz to talk about his book, the governance of the Internet, and online culture.

News and Notes:

Watch Eli Pariser’s TED talk about the Filter Bubble
Kevin Marks: “Call off the Search“
David Foster Wallace, ”E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction“
Louis Gray’s blog post: “Why The Filter Bubble Is No Bubble and It’s Not Bad Either“
Kevin Marks: “There are no influencers. There are only ways of looking at people as influencers.”
October 20 in New York: Contact Summit 2011: The Evolution Will Be Social
Mathew Ingram at GigaOm: “Do We Have Too Many Filters, Or Not Enough?“

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

TummelVision 65: Open House!

Andrew Hazlett — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:20:23 +0000

Regular TummelVision chat room contributor @Xenophrenia joins in a discussion of open source, copyright, economics, and more in this first ever “Open House” episode. We hope to make a regular feature out of this kind of episode (our version of a call-in hour).

News and Notes:

Kevin Marks has dubbed Deb Schultz a “knowledge bricoleur“
Video of Kevin’s Ignite talk at Google i/o
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet – Douglas Adams writing in 1999
Tyler Cowen’s new book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
Films by writer and chat room regular Tony Comstock
Good Manners in the Age of Wikileaks - Slavoj Žižek in the London Review of Books
Eli Pariser’s TED talk on the internet’s “filter bubble”

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

TummelVision 64: Lloyd Davis on Social Artistry, Collaboration, and Travel

Andrew Hazlett — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:15:39 +0000

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.

He’s a ukulele player who enjoys singing songs from the 1930s. And he recently traveled coast-to-coast trip across the United States, as vividly recorded here.

He’s currently resurrecting the Tuttle Club’s conversational process for consulting with large organisations about digital engagement strategies.

TummelVision 63: Mark Krynsky on X Prizes, competition, cooperation, and “influence”

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:09:07 +0000

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.

TummelVision 62: Andy Carvin of NPR.org on twitter journalism, tummelling the world, and truth-seeking through vulnerability

Andrew Hazlett — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:35:35 +0000

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.”

TummelVision 62.5: More conversation with Andy Carvin of NPR

Andrew Hazlett — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:33:02 +0000

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.

Digital Nomads and our fluid time.

heathergold — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:23:57 +0000

cc 2.0 by somethingstartedcrazy

Here’s a piece producer Andrew brought to our attention about Digital Nomads. It’s becoming increasingly common for web folk to travel as they work.

My life was totally like this on the road when I did #<3trip in the fall.
Sean Bonner who writes for boing boing lives like this and made its connection to the rise of minimalism really nicely. Staying in motion or moving with emergent impulse is an embrace of fluidity. This means you are working from the moment which is key to making agile development (software) and lean start ups (businesses) work and tummeling and UnPresenting as well. You can’t create conditions for engaging conversation or action if you do not embrace fluidity.

See also: gender as a textbox on Diaspora discussed in TV 45 with Willow Witte and Sarah Dopp

TummelVision 61: Dion Almaer on the revelation that code is produced by human beings

Andrew Hazlett — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:56:08 +0000

This week’s guest is technologist and “human dev aggregator” Dion Almaer (@dalmaer). Founder of Ajaxian.com and the just-launched FunctionSource, he has worked at companies such as Google (where he worked with Kevin), Mozilla, and Palm. He is now working at a new startup called Set Direction with his long term business partner Ben Galbraith.

In this episode, Dion reveals the shocking truth he has discovered from years of tummeling programmers: code is produced by humans. Dion talks with Deb and Kevin (Heather is performing at a gig)about communities and conflicts among coders, Twitter gossip, controlling our data, online “enchantment,” and more.

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

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

TummelVision 60.5: More talk with Courtney Stanton

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:26:12 +0000

Following the recording of episode 60 and after some technical challenges, Heather Gold joins the conversation with Courtney Stanton, on rape culture, PTSD, community, and more. This segment starts and ends abruptly (due to some mic issues), but the discussion is really absorbing.

TummelVision 60: Courtney Stanton on empathy, rape culture, and how to tummel haters

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:19:51 +0000

This week on TummelVision, the gang is joined by Courtney Stanton (@kirbybits), who relates her experiences contending with trolls and vitriol on the subject of rape culture in gaming. Courtney is Producer at Subatomic Studios, founder of Women in Games Boston, and co-founder of cabaret and burlesque troupe Bitches of Destiny.

News and Notes

“Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil” - The Independent (UK)
Are you evil? Find out, by taking researcher Simon Baron-Cohen’s empathy test
“USA Today Takes the Plunge: Paper to Pay Bonuses to Writers Based on Page Views” - Big Lead Sports
“Google Saves The News!” – Forbes
“The Suck Fairy” – Jo Walton at Tor.com
“100 Things You Should Know About People: #8 — Dopamine Makes You Addicted To Seeking Information” – Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. - What Makes Them Click
“Listen to Yourself” – xkcd
“Ben Folds, Damian Kulash, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman to Write, Record Eight Songs in Eight Hours” – Berklee College of Music

Links related to Courtney’s experiences in confronting rape, sex, and trolling in gaming communities:

“The Pratfall of Penny Arcade” Debacle Timeline
The original ‘rape as punchline’ comic, the same joke independently invented without the rape, and the “apology” comic.
Courtney’s Ignite talk on “troll analytics” and her accompanying research analysis.
Flamer bingo by Teresa Nielsen-Hayden – phrases to look out for
“A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar” – Fugitivus

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 of Courtney’s fascinating insights, check out the supplemental discussion in episode “60.5.”

TummelVision 59: Thomas Knoll on love, community architecture, Zappos, tech, and humanity

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:28:33 +0000

Thomas Knoll joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about love, community architecture, Zappos, tech, and humanity.

TummelVision 58: Silona Bonewald on Gaga, Google, open source, and socializing geeks

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:09:59 +0000

Silona Bonewald of Austin, Texas weighs-in on Lady Gaga vs. Facebook, open source environments, and avoiding poisonous people (not to mention a few other topics).

Searching for words to describe Silona’s tummelling skills, Kevin Marks says: “she founded the League of Technical Voters, Citability.org, she’s been the ACLU and EFF liaison to Texas Republicans, and she manages to make a party for 1200 people at SXSW feel like an intimate gathering of friends.”

TummelVision 57: Micah L. Sifry on SxSW, WikiLeaks, national security, and the global transparency movement

Andrew Hazlett — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:31:52 +0000

Still a little hoarse from SxSW, Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz report on their experiences and are joined by guest Micah L. Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, which covers the ways technology is changing politics, and editor of its blog techPresident. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency.

Tummelvision 56: Howard Rheingold on crap detection, collaborative learning, and online community

Kevin Marks — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:20:24 +0000

From SxSW in Austin, Heather Gold and Kevin Marks talk with Howard Rheingold, who has been studying and writing inspiringly about virtual communities since the 1990s, and has been online continually since the mid-1980s. His The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online is the original Tummler how-to guide.

Enjoy this conversation with the godfather of online tummlers!

TummelVision at SXSW

Kevin Marks — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:46:00 +0000

All of the TummelVision hosts, and many of the guests, will be spending the next week or so in Austin, Texas for South by South West (SXSW).

For me, the point of 20,000 web geeks squishing into a few blocks of downtown Austin for a week is to hugely increase the chances of having interesting conversations with old friends, and making new ones.

It’s the Peer Group and a Stiff Drink principle made manifest. If you want to understand it, read Laura Fitton‘s excellent introduction post.

If you want to find us, here are our speaking sessions (and those of our guests), and the one’s they’re attending or tracking.

As Laura says, keep your eyes open as we’ll be around plenty of other places too.

TummelVision 55: Juliette Powell on how to tummel, collaborating across disciplines, leaderless revolution, and Dutch schoolchildren

Deb Schultz — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:33:36 +0000

The guest this week is Juliette Powell, media strategist, author of 33 Million People in the Room and co-founder of The Gathering Think Tank. Juliette is a natural-born Tummler who catalyzes ideas and people across business, media and culture.

Juliette and the gang offered some practical tummelling tips, discussed collaboration across disciplines, leaderless revolution, and the social dynamics Dutch schoolchildren (really).

Check out Juliette’s recent discussion on the impact of the social web on the Middle-East revolution[s] with Internet skeptic Evgeny Morozov on BBC’s WHYS blog. Bonus: She is a fellow Canadian along with Heather.

TummelVision 54: Jeff Jarvis on his public parts, revolutionary technologies, and media disruption

Kevin Marks — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:13:18 +0000

In this episode of TummelVision, the gang talks about ”public parts,” revolutionary technologies, and media disruption with Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? and the forthcoming Public Parts, founder of Entertainment Weekly and professor at City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Alex Payne: “Technology is made of people”

heathergold — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:18:48 +0000

What I’ve been saying a long time. The premise of TummelVision is that everythign is made of people. We make everything we have. Only Alex, a brilliant technologist (thank him for twitter to some degree and the upcoming bank simple which I will switch to in one second) spells it out as well as why we need to regulate tech. What motivated his post?

As part of their reporting on recent events in the Middle East last week, NPR ran a story called Internet Freedom and the US State Department. The story is an interview with Alec Ross, co-founder of nonprofit technology provider One Economy and now Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

While dodging hard questions about US companies selling restrictive or invasive technologies to repressive regimes, Mr. Ross made a statement that jumped out at me from my car stereo:

“[T]echnology itself is value-neutral. It depends on how a government chooses to use these technologies.”

I believe this is an unproductive, misguided, and all too common way of thinking about technology.

The rest of this essential post.

TummelVision 53: Molly Steenson on pneumatic tubes, the links between architecture and social software, and creating meaning without shipping code

Kevin Marks — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:10:47 +0000

This week’s guest is Molly Steenson, a digital strategist, design researcher, architectural historian and Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University.

Molly joins Deb Schultz and Kevin Marks to discuss the implications of IBM’s Watson winning jeopardy, the hidden links between architecture and interface design, and whether “shipping code” is the only measure for creating value.

A few links we discussed in this episode:

Don Norman, “I have seen the future and I am opposed” – walled gardens and over reliance on tech
OM Malik, “Change Is Good, But It’s Also Really Hard”
Ten Mindful Ways to Use Social Media- the human side of how to engage
TummelVision Ep. 40 guest Dave Gray on Company as organism
“The Meet Ben Fisher, The Hard Drinking, No Bullshit, Tech Fixer for SXSW” – Tummeling as job description
TED Conversations launches: Sign of the increasing importance of Tummeling skills moving online

Molly’s work in her own words

“I’m writing about interactivity and its origins in architecture — human-computer interaction in architecture and urbanism. Right now, I’m focusing on Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab. He was trained as an architect and then founded the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in 1968 (which later became the Media Lab in the 1980s). He tried to apply big ideas of artificial intelligence to architecture and urban planning. Think of Watson winning on Jeopardy — now imagine a Watson that could design cities and buildings in a close relationship with a person. That’s what Negroponte had in mind in the 60s and 70s. Obviously, the technology simply wasn’t advanced enough to do it — but the thinking was provocative and really interesting.

The interesting thing to me is that figures like Negroponte, Christopher Alexander (who wrote A Pattern Language) and Richard Saul Wurman (who coined the term “information architecture and founded the TED conference) are all architects by training who had a major impact on our digital worlds. Alexander’s idea about patterns were important for object-oriented programming languages, not to mention for game and interface design. Wurman is one of the godfathers of contemporary information architecture. I wonder why these architects didn’t fit well into the field of architecture but mesh so well with the ways we design today for interactivity.

Outside of my academic work, I’m also interested in mobility, mobile phones and future-casting research. I’ve spent a summer in India researching how people share mobile phones — and as we look at sustainable ways of using objects, sharing gets to be important. I’m working on an amazing project with the Institute for the Future that I can’t talk about… I’ve looked at how friendship is changing in China and England thanks to social networking sites.”

Commitment to making meaning

Kevin Marks — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:54:29 +0000

One of the reasons I care about Tummeling is to help technologists step outside their simple models of the world and think about how people actually react, so I was very encouraged to see a couple of posts by English geeks that express this well.
Paul Downey has been spreading wisdom about the Web in textual and visual form for a while, and his I Spy the Web post is a plea for more people to collect the eclectic and share it with one another.
This inspired Tom Morris to an extended meditation on I’m not an experience-seeking user, I’m a meaning-seeking human person on the necessary and valuable effort it takes to commit yourself to making meaning for others to see, whether in Wikipedia or Open Plaques or in Open Source.
Read them both, in full.

TummelVision 52: Paul Ford asks why wasn’t I consulted?

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:39:09 +0000

Writer Paul Ford (a.k.a., Ftrain.com) joins Kevin and Deb to talk about the Egyptian revolution, whether Arianna Huffington is a tummler, and the ultimate question of the entire Internet: Why Wasn’t I Consulted?

Paul on Twitter: @ftrain

Quote of the Week: “There is a new role for individuals in the web who serve as ‘antennas’ who collect and feed back to the crowd” – Paul Ford

More links and comments from this episode:

Danah Boyd on Orkut and flag-waving
Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim’s electrifying interview
UK Open Rights Group pledge conversation
Cory Doctorow responds to Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion – We need a serious critique of net activism
Douglas Rushkoff says “we’d write for free for Arianna, but not AOL” - Huffington Post and AOL: the end of Web 2.0
The leaked AOL “master plan” memo - The AOL Way
Farhad Manjoo in Slate echoes Paul Ford’s doubts about the Huffington Post business model - HuffPo’s Achilles’ Heel
Paul Ford’s instantly influential post that pegged “Why Wasn’t I Consulted” as the fundamental question of the web – The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
Paul says The Awl looks like a blog, but it is actually an important magazine about culture on the web [not that blogs aren't important]
Readability, an incredibly useful tool with a new model for rewarding producers of great writing
See also Longreads, Arts & Letters Daily, and the collective highlights of Instapaper
Kevin Marks recommends Among Others by Jo Walton to “understand how books can love you back”
Paul Ford’s entertaining and informative Ftrain FAQ

TummelVision 51: Brady Forrest on the Egyptian revolution, humanizing data, and the birth of Ignite

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:20:29 +0000

Brady Forrest joins Deb and Kevin to talk about the tummlers of the Egyptian revolution, humanizing oceans of data, and the birth of the now-global phenomenon of Ignite.

TummelVision 50: Umair Haque on tummeling our way to a new kind of capitalism

Deb Schultz — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:58:59 +0000

This week on Tummelvision Umair Haque talks with us about his book The New Capitalist Manifesto, the imbalanced state of the union, Silicon Valley’s disruption deficit disorder, and much, much more.

Umair is an old pal of the tummel-crew. Four years ago when I first met Umair we both had a meeting of the minds on the fundamental shifts impacting business and culture in a networked world. Our major rant at the time was that this is much bigger than new technology and a new distribution channel. People were missing the point that social software and the social web are changing the rules – they are empowering individuals and groups and slicing into old economic models. This still holds true today. Most businesses are still trying to slam the proverbial square peg in a worn out old round hole while missing the fact that the hole is not round anymore and the peg – well it is now comprised of lots of little pegs [ok -done beating a dead metaphor].

Umair has been shaking things up with his great blog over at HBR and has just published his new book The New Capitalist Manifesto where he lays out many of these fundamental changes. We are proud that Tummeling fits right into the midst of it all. Please join us this Thursday for our live chat and podcast where we discuss Tummeling Capitalism – two words that many people might think are at odds with each other when in reality they go together like peanut butter and chocolate!

TummelVision 49: Lisa Bielawa on the social side of art and creativity

Andrew Hazlett — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:01:48 +0000

In addition to the usual smart, witty banter, this episode of TummelVision is graced by a sample from the work of composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa. Lisa is creating work that brings together many musicians and creates art in a very public way.

TummelVision 48: Brian Zisk on the human side of gadgetry, music, and lessons from antique online social networks

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:42:15 +0000

Brian Zisk is a strategist specializing in music, technology, and founder advising. He is a pioneering social organizer in the San Francisco Bay area. In this episode of TummelVision, Brian talks with Deb, Heather, and Kevin about CES, the continuing human importance of conferences, Quora’s imperfect community management, and the smart rules developed by antique online social networks.

Brian on Twitter: @zisk @sfmusictech @futureofmoney

Quote of the Week: “If you don’t like what someone says it’s your responsibility to not let them drive you nuts” -Brian Zisk

More links and comments from this episode:

Paul Kedrosky on how human curators are beating search by algorithm – Curation is the New Search is the New Curation
@debs: “So, a tummler is like a business development person who doesn’t get paid?”
The original music and tech tummeling space – The Pho List
Tantek Çelik‘s self-hosting with replication approach in Falcon - On Owning Your Data
The suddenly-popular service Quora takes a clumsy approach to regulating their community – Commitment to Keeping Quora High Quality
Principles for community health cited by Brian: “Tools not rules,” “own your words”
The Well – an exemplary online community – sample thread mentioned by Kevin: Topic 400: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
Twitter blocking as a “bozo filter” – Derek Powazek: Press the Magic Button and Dave Winer: Why you got blocked

TummelVision 47: Tom Coates on Yahoo!, social software, and being a proto-tummler

Andrew Hazlett — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:06:14 +0000

Tom Coates has been blogging and working on social software since well before either of them got that name. He cares very much about making the web a suitable place for people to live in, and has been doing so with Barbelith, UpMyStreet, BBC Radio, The Open Rights Group, Yahoo Brickhouse and FireEagle.

He even started a blog about Tummeling called Everything in Moderation 8 years ago.

&lt;a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=1d38eea4cb” mce_href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=1d38eea4cb” &gt;TummelVision 47: Tom Coates&lt;/a&gt;

Happy Holidays!

Deb Schultz — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:12:47 +0000

TummelVision 46: Tara Hunt Talks Whuffie, Delicious, and Shwowp!

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:22:44 +0000

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

<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=63a76d0634″ mce_href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=63a76d0634″ >TummelVision 46: Tara Hunt</a>

TummelVision 45: Willow Witte of Join the Impact on Napsterized political activism

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:46:53 +0000

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.

TummelVision 44: Stowe Boyd on social cognition, coding gender, and betweenness

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:51:44 +0000

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

Thanksgiving for Tummlers

heathergold — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:08:26 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to all our TummelVision listeners, participants, tummlers and crew.

We’re grateful for the work of so many of our guests and community who are doing great work to make the web and the people and places in their lives more connected and centered around human needs.

In lieu of a live episode this evening, please enjoy the embedded video below, a classic TummelVision episode with Zoe Keating. Tara Hunt will join us on December 16th.

Join us live again beginning next week December 2nd with Stowe Boyd. We have a fantastic live chat with some of the more phenomenal minds and wits and we really encourage you to join us live for shows which always include unpredictable, fun pre- and post-show conversations.

Many thanks for their help in the past year to TWIT.tv and Leo Laporte for launching TummelVision, Squarespace for NY studio support, Rob Blatt and Mike Vardy for production help and our former listener now producer Andrew Hazlett.

I find it kind of funny and I find it kind of sad w/Zoe Keating – Ep 13 Tummelvision from heather gold on Vimeo.

TummelVision 43: Heather Woodbury on performance, culture, and the social web

Andrew Hazlett — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:14:34 +0000

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“).

TummelVision 42: Doc Searls on consumers, capitalism, and a decade of cluetraining

Andrew Hazlett — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:28:54 +0000

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.

Doc Searls on TummelVision Tonight

Andrew Hazlett — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:28:32 +0000

Doc Searls

On Thursday, November 11, the TummelVision crew welcomes a special guest star, someone who’s worked on the web for a longtime as a leading advocate for customers advocating for themselves Doc Searls.

If you have a question for Doc, or suggestion for topics you’d like to hear discussed, please leave a comment below, tweet @TummelVision or #tummel, or email us at tummlers [at] gmail.com.

Please also join us for the live audio stream of this episode at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on Thursday at Tummelvision.tv/Live. During these broadcasts (and “after parties”), be sure to check out our always-lively chat room.

As one of the authors of the seminal Cluetrain Manifesto, Doc Searls has been a tireless advocate for many of the ideals cherished by the Tummlers. Among many other current activities, he runs Project VRM as a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. VRM stands for Vendor Relationship Management. Doc wants tools and platforms to allow people manage the way vendors (companies that sell you stuff and services) have relationships with them.

Doc’s very committed to a more humanized world, so how does tummeling fit into his vision for VRM? At what point do tummlers manage the relationship between customers and the company and when do business recognize they need tummelers to manage the company in a networked environment? How will the new VRM technologies work for real people doing this work? Or was the Cluetrain Manifesto a pipedream and a wish that peopel working for companies treat people as people?

Doc’s perspective is a rare blend of seasoned wisdom and up-to-the-minute expertise. We hope you’ll join us for this “very special episode” of TummelVision.

TummelVision 41: Josh Klein on Hacking Work

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:27:31 +0000

Josh Klein is a technologist, hacker, and rule-breaking innovator. With Bill Jensen, he’s the author of the new book Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results. In this episode of Tummelvision, he talks with Heather, Kevin, and Deb about the book, dysfunctional workplaces, and fear-free workarounds in big corporations.

Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies

heathergold — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:51:00 +0000

The people in authority who make the rules interfere with the people who know how to do the job and are in direct contact with the situation. The people who make the rules know nothing about the work they’re interfering with.

-Kevin Carson, Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies

Kevin’s post give me food for thought. It’s my preference not to abstract the hierarchy / network thing into information but view it as people problems or challenges. Tummeling is a kind of human self-networking that happens even within hierarchies. Many corporations function because there are individuals who take it upon themselves to make connections and bring people together across “silos” (man I hate that word). Sometimes it’s an admin assistant or project manager or someone with low “authority status” (something else Carson’s post critiques, the mistake hierarchy managers make when they look to what they see as authority rather than actual experience).

What’s most important to me about what Carson refers to as “people who know how to do the work” is not their abstract knowledge but what is experiential. Experience happens in the present. It’s where all real authority and creativity emerges.

Tummeling with Geeks

Deb Schultz — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:39:06 +0000

Part of our passion surrounding Tummelvision is stems from our desire to explore and highlight the dynamics of what is needed to create engaged social spaces online. Kevin and Deb led a session at the recent O’reilly Open Web Foo Camp where we intro’ed the concept to our beloved geek community. We had a great discussion with a number of folks including Dale Dougherty [who runs the world of Make], Sarah Novotny [program chair of OSCON] and others. As Tummlers themselves – they commented on the need for better tools for curators, creators and catalysts to help them connect with their community and for their community to connect with each other.

The intersection of our human selves and tech were popping up in many conversations and many sessions throughout the weekend. We are definitely at a unique moment – where the once binary web is just starting to recognize the need to evolve into a more organic entity that better reflects who we are and how we behave – a more reflective representation of our offline selves. Let’s face it, we take ourselves with us wherever we are. In one of the sessions led by Brady Forrest we discussed the need for Social Bots – sounds scary – but really it could potentially be about making us smarter about ourselves and our interactions – these bots could help us maintain our social relationships across many groups, sites, and tribes. They could even be a personal data stream to report back to me analytics about my life in meaningful ways. But therein lies the rub – as soon as we start heading down the “manage my life” track – it starts getting complex very quickly. We need to ensure that in our effort to create a more open web we provide for the likelihood of ever changing connections and the ability to set permissions and identity as we choose.

As both Elizabeth Churchill [Ep 7 Guest] and Shelly Farnham pointed out, not all of us want 100% transparency all the time. This leads us into many complex and complicated issues of privacy, identity, control, permissions etc. We are seeing them played out daily – everywhere – and though computers can do a better job of helping us filter and manage some of these complexities it will ultimately be up to us – the humans and the Tummlers to make it all work seamlessly and organically. The human brain and heart – are still the best at managing the nuances of our social selves.

TummelVision 40: Dave Gray on design, gamestorming, and more

Andrew Hazlett — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:27:12 +0000

Dave Gray, visual thinker and CEO of XPLANE, talks with Heather Gold and Deb Schultz about gamestorming, design, and visual tummeling.

Real-Time Crowsourcing: Tummeling at Crowd Conference 2010

heathergold — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:46:04 +0000

The 3 of us were actually in a room together to tummel the first Crowd Conference: a conference about crowdsourcing work.

TummelVision 39.5: “Director’s Cut” with additional commentary

Andrew Hazlett — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:50:18 +0000

Some additional conversation between Blaine Cook and Kevin Marks, including questions and comments from the TummelVision chat room (which features very smart people like Sarah Dopp)

TummelVision 39: Blaine Cook and the future of an open social web

Kevin Marks — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:57:08 +0000

Blaine Cook [@blaine], founding engineer at Twitter and an open web standards wizard, joins Heather, Deb, and Kevin to talk about hopes, dreams and plans for a more open, yet more personalized Internet.

Huffduff It [what?]

TummelVision 38: Kristina Halvorson on Content Strategy and Tactics

Kevin Marks — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:25:27 +0000

Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about the importance of real content in business and social interaction.

Listen and subscribe on iTunes.

Huffduff It [what?]

TummelVision 37: Schlomo Rabinowitz on Burning Man, public service

Kevin Marks — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:58:01 +0000

Schlomo joins Heather, Debs and Kevin to talk about Burning Man, co-ordinating groups, and proposes mandatory public service.

TummelVision 36: Jyri Engeström on Tech Crunch, social object theory, and Twitter activism

Kevin Marks — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:10:41 +0000

Jyri Engeström, entrepreneur and founder of Jaiku, was once Google’s “accidental sociologist.” He weaves together a wealth of knowledge of the social web and social science.

[Technical note: Even though Jyri and Kevin helped make the Internet work, they still had some technical problems recording this episode. Unfortunately the audio is not up to our usual standards. We apologise for that and think the quality of the conversation makes this worthwhile listening. We'll have Jyri back for another chat at studio quality but in the meantime, please listen to some great insights about social media.]

TummelVision 35: Steve Rosenbaum on online video, curation, and the future of media

Kevin Marks — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:48:01 +0000

Steve Rosenbaum is a pioneer in online video and someone who has been thinking deeply about “curation” since long before it became a buzzword.

You can read his insightful commentary at the Huffington Post and dip into his interesting twitter stream @magnify.

TummelVision 34: Joshua Fouts & Rita King on Diplomacy, politics, and virtual worlds

heathergold — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:08:32 +0000

Joshua Fouts and Rita King run Dancing Ink Productions and study diplomacy and cultural relations in virtual worlds. We discussed their recent project on understanding Islam in depth as well as the recent Tea Party candidate victories and the organizational approach of the Tea Party.

This Week: Zoe Keating

mikevardy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:34:27 +0000

The TummelVision crew is taking this week off, so listen to the live stream tonight at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST to catch a repeat of one of the first shows featuring Zoe Keating.

We’ll be back next week!

TummelVision 33: Marshall Kirkpatrick on Apple, Google and other socially awkward companies

Kevin Marks — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:31:48 +0000

Marshall Kirkpatrick, one of the smartest writers on the web, visits with Heather Gold, Deb Schultz, and Kevin Marks in this week’s episode of TummelVision.

Marshall is widely known as “The Lady Gaga of Tech” (according to Heather), but he also serves as Co-Editor and Vice President of Content Development at ReadWriteWeb.

Some links, concepts, and comments mentioned in this episode:

Marshall on the startup social network based on open standards [Only Burning Man Stands Between Diaspora, the Open Source Facebook, and Its Public Launch]

Kara Swisher on Apple’s Facebook problems [Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch]

Kevin Marks on Apple’s move into social [Welcome Apple, seriously]

Marshall recommends the new social search tool nsyght.com as an example of a “tummelly” tool.

The gang also talked about the new twitter-based event tracker Lanyrd and other social tools for the conferencing life (including Pathable and Plancast).

TummelVision 32: Jay Rosen on media and the people formerly known as the audience

Kevin Marks — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:23:32 +0000

Jay Rosen is professor of journalism at New York University, a prolific “mindcaster” on twitter, and a blogger at Press Think.

Hosts: Kevin Marks, Deb Schultz, and Heather Gold

Some links, concepts, and comments mentioned in this episode:

Jay’s legendary 2006 post [The People Formerly Known as the Audience]

Another one of Jay’s big hits [He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User]

Sarah Palin as a “media virus” [per Douglas Rushkoff's concept]

The Daily Beast on Rachel Maddow feeling compelled to cover the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy. [Rachel's Accidental War]

Dan Pink/RSA: why and when $ doesn’t get results (aka being human for white guys)

heathergold — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:10:17 +0000

Dan Pink‘s talk animated by RSA (who doesn’t seem to give the illustrator’s name, sorry). This is an evidence research-based translation of some of the basic premises we focus on in TummelVision: that we are motivated *by each other.* That we are not algorithms. The autonomy and mastery that Dan Pink is talking about, in my opinion, is what let’s someone know they are there and not merely a substitutie for a machine. Independence lets you feel choice and mastery gives you feedback and a sense of competence. But the best use of all these skills, the underlying motivator of why they are so rewarding is because they allow you to find ways to meaningfully connect with others and share usefulness and work for others.

In spiritual language that’s called service. Except our economy is now called that too. It’s the intent that’s not always the same. But as this slow thinking and analysis (as in Dan Pink’s talk) eventually moves forward it is slowly proved to people (aka the mostly white algorithm-lovin dudes running western business) that *feels* good is also effective.

-heather

Heather Gold and Deb Schultz’s tummeling session at SuperNova2010

heathergold — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:30:58 +0000

For Xenophrenia and everyone who’s asked about our recent session at SuperNova. Thanks to Kevin Werbach for having us.

A Tummel Vacation

Kevin Marks — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:42:51 +0000

We’re taking a week off this week…but don’t fret! We’re presenting “Best of” episodes when this happens (which won’t be often)!

This week you can relive our episode that featured Allee Willis. Check it out here at our regular time (Thursdays at 5 pm PST/8 pm EST).

See you next week!

Supernova Video – what is tummeling?

Deb Schultz — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:07:29 +0000

Heather and I did a brief video interview with Howard Greenstein [our episode 23 guest] after out Tummeling Session at Supernova explaining the concept. Enjoy!

Zing moments:

Heather bringing in Arthur Miller’s classic line from Death of A Salesman – “A man is not a piece of fruit.”

Debs comment that we “don’t want to live in a world where twitter becomes the form letter of yesterday.”

TummelVision 30: Brynn Evans and Julie Hamwood on social interaction design

Kevin Marks — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:28:13 +0000

Brynn Evans and Julie Hamwood visit to talk about social interaction design, the demise of Google Wave, and the myriad differences between Twitter and Facebook.

Brynn summarized the discussion at her blog with much more elegance than any show notes could could capture.

TummelVision 29: Ted Rheingold live from Supernova and ambient sociality

Deb Schultz — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:24:42 +0000

Visual Notes from our Supernova session

Deb Schultz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:32:48 +0000

Thanks to Johnny Goldstein check out his stuff at Envizualize

The importance of coordination for success

Deb Schultz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:39:35 +0000

Nice piece entitled “Team Coordination Is Key in Businesses” by the Heath bros on the importance of coordination for success. As they smartly point out:

We tend to underestimate the amount of effort needed to coordinate with other people. In one academic experiment, a team of students was asked to build a giant Lego man as quickly as possible. To save time, the team members split up their work. One person would craft an arm, another would build the torso, and so forth. (At least one person, of course, was charged with tweeting compulsively about what the others were doing.)

Often, the parts were carefully designed, yet they didn’t quite fit together properly, like a Lego Heidi Montag. The problem was that nobody was paying attention to the integration. The researchers found that the teams were consistently better at specializing than they were at coordinating.

The skills required for coordination and collaboration are indeed the skills of the Tummler! Now to discuss the HOW – the how is to reward and ensure that the role of the Tummler is indeed recognized, encouraged and rewarded.

TummelVision 28: Sarah Dopp on connectors, tummlers and community

Kevin Marks — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:57:27 +0000

TummelVision 27: Christy Dena on transmedia storytelling

Kevin Marks — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:31:49 +0000

Christy Dena is a specialist in producing transmedia projects… forms of storytelling that reach across the web’s full range of communication tools. From her home in Melbourne, Australia, she joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz in discussing the history and future of online conversation.

World and Web not as connected as we think

Deb Schultz — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:06:19 +0000

Great Ted talk from Ethan Zuckerman on the fact that we are less cross-linked and cross connected than we think we are.

Our argument to avoid the homophily that Zuckerman discusses ? Tummlers, of course!

TummelVision 26: Jessamyn West on Metafilter and tummeling communities

Kevin Marks — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:10:09 +0000

The Next Web has No Destinations (and thus needs tummlers more)

heathergold — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:40:59 +0000

How interactions on the web are changing
The next stage of the web won’t have destinations, it will be a distributed network of content and people that will get reassembled depending on context and relationships. The increase in people interactions on the web will mean that building and managing communities will be important for responding to customer suggestions, queries, and complaints. Communities will need to be embedded in consumer experiences and not built at a new destination.

Quote from -Paul Adams, UX Researcher at Google – the tummler conclusion is mine.

The Catskills on the 4th

heathergold — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:36:18 +0000

We were passing through the Catskills during the 4th weekend and we stopped at the Liberty NY museum.Tummler was a full-on regular job at these resorts and it helped launch the career of many great performers including Mel Brooks, Sid Ceasar and Joey Adams.

The people who stayed at these resorts were immigrants or children of immigrants and this was their time out of the city to spend some time in a pool, eat some good food they didn’t have to cook themselves and socialize. People often went back at the same time every year and community and participation was a big part of the experience.

Lower costs of more exotic consumer vacation destinations like the Caribbean led to the closing of these resorts but they led to a loss of connection and community.

TummelVision 25: Andrew Keen the “anti-tummler” riles up the crew

Kevin Marks — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:08:20 +0000

TummelVision 24: Colleen Kelly on GoogleTV and the TwiT Army

Kevin Marks — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:06:24 +0000

Take a walk on the human side

Deb Schultz — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:33:05 +0000

I sniffed out a few great articles that echo the Tummel Manifesto – of bringing our human-selves with us in business, culture and tech [whether online or offline]:

Linda Stone’s recent piece on “Conscious Computing: A new era of post-productivity computing?
Dev Patnaik from Jump Associates piece on the link between empathy & innovation: Innovation starts with empathy
Paul Adams’ great preso entitled the Real life Social Network demonstrates how designers are indeed recognizing the need to build a more integrated set of tools that reflect our real life behaviors.

There is definitely something in the air these days bringing forth the conversation on our more ‘human side’. An often overlooked impact of “Web2.0″ or “Social Media” – is the renewed focus on what it means to collaborate, share, participate and how can we create, design and develop systems and organizations that allow these natural behaviors to flourish. Exciting stuff – it’s about time. I hear the original promise of the Web hitting it’s mark and it sounds sweet.

TummelVision 23: Howard Greenstein

Kevin Marks — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:17:27 +0000

Episode 23 Download the show

Programming Note: New Tummel-time

Deb Schultz — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:08:17 +0000

In an effort NOT to put our east coast hostess and our east coasts guests into sleep deprivation, we are moving Tummelvision to a NEW TIME. Starting June 24th we will be LIVE two hours earlier. Join Us!

NEW TUMMELVISION TIME

5pm pst / 8pm est

We hope this new time is better for you – the participants as well!