Tummelvision

Episode Notes

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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Episode Notes

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.

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.

Episode Notes

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.

Episode Notes

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.