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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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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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Thomas Knoll joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about love, community architecture, Zappos, tech, and humanity.

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Dave Gray, visual thinker and CEO of XPLANE, talks with Heather Gold and Deb Schultz about gamestorming, design, and visual tummeling.

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Christy Dena is a specialist in producing transmedia projects… forms of storytelling that reach across the web’s full range of communication tools. From her home in Melbourne, Australia, she joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz in discussing the history and future of online conversation.