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TummelVision 86: Kestrin Pantera on karaoke, cellos, and #occupy

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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.

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TummelVision 61: Dion Almaer on the revelation that code is produced by human beings

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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.

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