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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.