Tummelvision

Episode Notes

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).

Episode Notes

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‘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

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

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!