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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

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 clichÃ©? – 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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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 Ã‡elik explains open web standards for poets

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

Tantek Ã‡elik 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”
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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 Å½iÅ¾ek 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.

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 â€” 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 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.

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.”

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 memo
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”
The AOL Way memo
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 Ã‡elik‘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.

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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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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

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.

TummelVision 26: Jessamyn West on Metafilter and tummeling communities

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

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

TummelVision 23: Howard Greenstein

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

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TummelVision 22: John Hagel on the Power of Pull

Kevin Marks — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:17:49 +0000

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TummelVision 21: Greg Elin on Open Gov’t, Data & Privacy

Kevin Marks — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:22:57 +0000

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TummelVision 20: Christen Clifford

Kevin Marks — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:17:31 +0000

TummelVision 19: Valdis Krebs on Network Weaving, mapping the social graph and finding tummlers

Deb Schultz — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:59:47 +0000

Heather, Kevin and Deb talk with Valdis Krebs, the founder and Chief Scientist at orgnet.com. Valdis is a management consultant, researcher, trainer, author, and the developer of InFlow software for social and organizational network analysis [SNA/ONA]. Since 1987, Valdis has participated in almost 500 SNA/ONA projects. His work has been covered in major media including New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, CNN, Entrepreneur, Forbes, FORTUNE, MSNBC.com and several major newspapers around the world including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, USA Today, Washington Post, and Associated Press.

Join us live at 7 PM PST/10 EST for TummelVision…

Tummelvision 18: Laura Fitton on the power of Twitter, the lazy web and you

Deb Schultz — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:06:05 +0000

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TummelVision 17: Sunny Bates on creativity, talent and Kickstarter projects

heathergold — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:45:27 +0000

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Sunny Bates is one of the most successful connectors in the Internet start-up realm. She has an extremely successful executive search firm and acts as an advisor to many start ups, including our tummeling fave Kickstarter. She brings people together and constantly creates social engagement between people.

TummelVision 16: Teresa Nielsen-Hayden and Scott Rosenberg the uber-tummlers tell us how it’s done

heathergold — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:40:43 +0000

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We speak with two great tummlers in this episode. Teresa Nielsen-Hayden is a science fiction editor and was the first boingboing comments moderator when they returned to comments in 2007. Teresa is also a blogger and the first person to practice disemvoweling online of the entire text of offensive posts.

Most important to us, she’s the original applier of the term tummel to social catalyzing in the web era (she discussed it with Kevin and then the three of us had a collective aha moment. See our story on the about page.)

Also joining us is early blogger, journalist, long-time Salong writer and editor and blogging historian Scott Rosenberg.

TummelVision 15: Janera Soerel on the art of the global conversation

heathergold — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:25:41 +0000

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TummelVision 14: Derek Powazek on designing the social website

heathergold — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:14:01 +0000

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80’s song title: “One thing leads to another”

TummelVision 13: Zoë Keating on being a one women record label

Kevin Marks — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:33:04 +0000

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Zoë Keating joined us to talk about her music and how she connects with people online. Zoë is a Classical cellist, who uses the techniques of electronic music using a ‘cello, both recorded and most strikingly live. This Wired video shows how she creates live performances like these at PopTech and SFO Airport.
Zoë used to work in tech, but quit to join a rock band on tour.

She sells here music through her website, iTunes (where she has topped the Classicla charts several times) and Amazon. Because she spends a lot of time alone in the studio with a ‘cello and a computer, she is a very active twitter user, and has found collaboratiosn with people including RadioLab, Curt Smith, and a remix project on Terry Reilly’s In C.
She first began multitracking herself as she couldn’t find 16 cellists to play all the parts, but now she organizes ‘cello tweetups that play in her style.

We talked about how it is important to always treat people as human online, and not be selling something, but conversing. We also talked about how “the music industry is by definition an operation invented to divert money spent on music away from actual musicians” – Zoë’s music was defined as non-commercial by record labels, but her audience is adequate to support her because she sells direct, without the industry middlemen taking the majority of the money – as Clay Shirky describes.

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80’s song title: I find it kind of funny and I find it kind of sad

TummelVision 12: Christian Crumlish on the mechanics of designing for online community

Deb Schultz — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:13:40 +0000

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Christian Crumlish is the Director of Yahoo’s interface library and the co-author of Designing Social Interfaces.

TummelVision 11: Cathy Brooks on finding your personal story

Kevin Marks — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:12:15 +0000

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Cathy Brooks has been part of the tech start-up scene for a long time and often connects people with one another.

Freshly back from SXSW, the fours of us discussed the events of the conference, it’s change and connections there as well as how Cathy does what she does at events there.

We spent quite a bit of time discussing the controversial keynote conversation between Havas Media Lab’s Umair Haque and Twitter co-founder and CEO Ev Williams and the mass walkout that happened during it. How do you make a good public conversation?

We recalled the Mark Zuckerberg Sarah Lacy keynote conversation of a few years ago which also failed to engage the room and had differences about why that happened.

80’s theme song: It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It

TummelVision 10: Dave McClure live from SXSW on startups, angel investing and VC’s

Deb Schultz — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:12:57 +0000

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We ventured to SXSW where the whole TWIT crew was hosted very hospitably by the beautiful Texas co-working space. We also got the have the unique experience of seeing each other in person while we do the show.

Our guest Dave McClure is a well-known angel investor and persistent entrepreneurial advice giver. Originally a developer himself, he’s worked with too many companies to name, including SlidesShare, Paypal and Facebook. Among 499 other things, he currently runs a seed-stage investment program for Founders Fun.

Remarkably, Dave was able to not use any of his favourite 4-letter words at our request, during TummelVision, given that TWIT is aimed at a general audience including young kids. It’s taken us some time to adapt to the direction, but McClure really did yeoman’s work here and if you start reading his well-regarded blog or check out his sometimes controversial slides you’ll know why. He’s one of the most opinionated and enthusiastic peopel you’ll ever talk to about start-ups.

We discussed the tummeling he does as an angel, and the increasingly influential role angel funders (the people who provide the very first, personal funding of a company) given the decreasing costs of beginning a Net start-up. Dave also discussed what he felt VCs should be focussing on given this change.

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80’s theme song: When a Problem Comes Along, You Must Whip It

TummelVision 9: Brian Oberkirch on the art of small good things

Deb Schultz — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:26:48 +0000

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We had a great chat with Brian Oberkirch on the implicit and explicit impact of the social and geo-loco services rippling through our lives. Brian is a ‘multi-lingual’ understated tummler and marketing guy who speaks geek and non geek alike. He looks at the web from a uniquely human place. We focused a bit on the need for web services and sites to do a better job educating their users on the implications of the data they are sharing in plain english as well as discussing how the features we choose to include on sites set the tone for the community – i.e. ratings systems, game mechanics, “number of followers” etc.

Links we discussed this week:

Dewitt Clinton on the features we choose setting tone: The web would be a better place if …
Brian’s post on paying a bit more attention to the implicit effects of social services and feature: “Hell, the fall alone will kil ya”
http://www.brianoberkirch.com/2010/03/04/hell-the-fall-will-kill-ya/
Adrian Chan on game mechanics and social functionality
Dave Winer refreshing out memory on what makes a good conference

80’s theme song: Follow me, oh follow me

TummelVision 8: Bill Corbett on MST3K and bringing the audience along for the ride [explicit]

heathergold — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:45:51 +0000

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We had a great conversation with hilarious and poetic playwright and comic actor Bill Corbett (Rifftrax, Mystery Science Theatre 3000) about elements of improv, playwrighting and comedy that all relate to tummeling and succeeding in working in flow and creating social engagement.

The core elements of improv that seemed most important:
-yes, and (not denying the reality anyones presenting. This isn’t about dealing with trolls but meeting people generally where they are and adding something to it)
-being present
-commitment
-risk
-surprise

Deb related the element of surprise in the business world to 3Ms decision to capitalize on the accident or “failure” in the creation of Post-its. In tech, Kevin related it to people hacking on an existing product and the ability in the software world to change products quickly. In fear

We also had a pretty in-depth discussion of comedy, it’s evolution into snark, how it’s done on twitter and what Bill sees trending on twitter as a growing return to an approach to more direct humour.

Links from this week:
Attention has not been democratized (danah boyd)
Trust means being vulnerable to someone (Ben Laurie on Ed Felton)
Baratunde’s twitcom
Geek sincerity

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80’s theme song: Hold on Loosely

TummelVision 7: Elizabeth Churchill on ‘connecting the dots’, social software & human behavior

Kevin Marks — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:35:03 +0000

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Do you speak-a my language? Elizabeth Churchill – TummelVision Ep. 7 from heather gold on Vimeo.

There was a little Buzz, a little iPad and a lot of accents swirling around the show this week. It was our first “international parity” edition serendipitously coinciding with the Olympics; we had two brits [Kevin and Elizabeth], a Canadian [Heather] and an American [Deb]. Ironically, we did not even touch on the Games themselves but rather focused on the true international language of “connecting the dots” and the human behavior and interfaces that help folks connect. We discussed why the role of a Tummler is often taken on by the liminal or non powerful members in society and organizations as well as how the field of Computer Human Interaction is and is not changing as a a result of mass adoption of social tools. We also took a second look at Buzz and some of the Buzz backlash and what it does or does not do well when viewed through a social lens.

This week’s links:

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80’s theme song: Do You Speak-a My Language

TummelVision 6: Adrian Chan on Social Interaction Design

Kevin Marks — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:51:57 +0000

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Adrian Chan joined us to talk about Social Interaction Design, which he describes thus:

Social interaction design is UX and interaction design for social media. It’s the work of many practitioners and is applied through many practices. SxD is an application of insights into social media that starts with users. How they use social media reflects their personal and social interests as well as their relationships. The interactions occur among users, not just between users and the interface. I look for the emergent social practices that make your site, application, or service a social success.

As Google launched Buzz this week, we spent a lot of the show talking about it, and the privacy problem it raised though auto-connecting your contacts.

This weeks links:
Gravity7 blog
Social Interaction Design primer
SxD Salon blog
Slides:
What is sxd
personality types
user competencies
Johnny Holland is an open collective exploring the interactions of experience design.
Society for New Communications Research

Buzz commentary:
Open Standards within Buzz by Kevin Marks and Chris Messina
Privacy failings by Suw Charman and Chris Carfi
Google’s improvements
Twitter theory applied to Buzz

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80’s theme song: I Want to Know what Buzz Is

TummelVision 5: Allee Willis on collaboration, being an uber-social artist and songwriter

Deb Schultz — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:14:07 +0000

Episode 5 – Download the Show

The 80s title of today’s show comes from Stir It Up one of many hits written by our guest Allee Willis who creates in layers, in many mediums and is a pioneering social artist. Allee works in music, video animation, visual art, painting, digital forms, kitsch and in party throwing. Her focus on process and collaboration heart and pioneering tech and web understanding makes her the ur Tummelvision guest (not to mention her collection of 15 cowbells which she pulled out to play with us).

Allee’s full-length bio and very deep and engaging site are worth a real visit to get at the richness and creativity in what she is doing. A short list includes these credits: September, Boogie Wonderland, Theme Song From Friends, score for musical The Color Purple, motorized paintings that go with her hit What Have I Done To Deserve This, kitsch collaboratioins with the Del Rubio Triplets and 90 year old drummer Jerrie

Tummelvision peeps called her the Hugh Hefner of tech upon hearing that Allee has 42,000 terrabytes of data in her own server room.

If you only have time to watch one Tummelvision, make it this one. Although we think it will lead you to more. This awesome conversation made it clear that Tummelvision is picking up on a path Allee began to cut as early as 1991 to focus attention in Silicon Valley and Hollywood on the collaborative possibilities of art that is networked and never-ending.

She’s offered to come back and we’d like to find a way for everyone who’s part of the budding Tummelvison community to collaborate on a song or playing music together live. Any suggestions or software or platform recommendations are welcome.

Give the show a listen (video coming soon) and check out Allee’s stuff and buy some. to enjoy it and support her ability to make more. And let us know how you’d like to do a mass collaboration with her and Tummelvision.

This week’s links

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80’s theme song: Got to Shake It Up Now

TummelVision 4: Kathy Sierra on creating passionate users and you

Deb Schultz — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:42:42 +0000

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Kathy Sierra joined us for a great conversation about her biggest passion: you. Note-worthy moments and themes:

– How do you create excellent experiences for users
– Clay Shirky’s recent rant about women, wishing they’d show more chutzpah and self-promotion
– a useful unself promotion approach to work and social media presence than “personal branding.” It’s certainly working for Kathy.
– Why follower counts aren’t the thing to pay attention to
– the iPad’s social possibilities both online and between real life and online.
– Deb quoted the Talmud tonight, Kathy Sierra Daniel Pink and me QVC. That’s range!
– Deb got a cowbell, Heather grabbed a hairbrush and Kevin rocked out
– We never wanna get ourselves free. This week’s song is so very cowbell worthy.
– Books mentioned: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.)– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Kathy dropped his name all casual-like) and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
– Daniel Pink

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80’s theme song: Caught Up in You

TummelVision 3: Heather Champ and George Oates on setting the tone for a million user website

Deb Schultz — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:35:46 +0000

Episode 3 – Download the Show

Deb and Kevin chat with two of the women who helped make what gets called “community” in the “web 2.0” world work. Heather videos in from the airport for a minute. Champ and Oates were both involved in the creation of Flickr, considered the first real “web 2.0” site and a model of a strong community using social media. There’s no one who knows more about what design and community features and human interactions affect social engagement online. Champ and Oates are insightful and witty. They’re the opposite of Big Brother. But they are watching you.

Thanks to Director of Community at Flickr Heather Champ and Lead for the Open Library at Internet Archive George Oates.

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80’s theme song: They’re Watching You

TummelVision 2: Nicole Lazarro on social gaming, play & emotions

heathergold — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:11:45 +0000

Download the Show: Download

Thanks to guest game designer Nicole Lazzaro

What we discussed this week.

-Nicole’s thoughts on CES trends. The game world is missing the social experience. Nicole’s ideas on how games create emotion. Daniel Floyd’s great video on why video games are missing a broader female audience. Relational and social thinking is the key. If your goal is to get people engaged and involved then you are beginning to think like a tummler.

-Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg implies that privacy is dead. How does being public help you tummel and engage people?

-Vanity Fair on social media “twilebrities.” Gawker wasn’t impressed either. Anil Dash noted, in a typically thoughtful piece, that no one has over a million followers. We are quite sure than follower numbers don’t matter as much as most people assume they do.

-Tummeling Technique: Heather explained the importance of going first via the infamous Sasquatch Dance Party video.

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80’s theme song: Games People Play

TummelVision 1: Jerry Michalski the proto-tummler on the art of connecting people

heathergold — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:30:30 +0000

Recorded on Sept 22, 2009 with guest Jerry Michalski. Many thanks to the TWiT army and odtv.me for making this.

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80’s theme song: I’ll Tummel for Ya