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

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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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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.

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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!

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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.