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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.

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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.

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Ellen Dudley of Crowdscanner joins us to talk about social interaction tools, werewolves, and improving real-life conversation.

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Lloyd Davis (@lloyddavis) is Social Artist in Residence at the University of London’s Centre for Creative Collaboration. He blogs at Perfect Path and is best known as the founder of the Tuttle Club, London’s most popular and long-running meetup for anyone interested in the social web.

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Following the recording of episode 60 and after some technical challenges, Heather Gold joins the conversation with Courtney Stanton, on rape culture, PTSD, community, and more. This segment starts and ends abruptly (due to some mic issues), but the discussion is really absorbing.