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The New Disruptors
The New Disruptors features interviews every week with artists, producers, and makers navigating the new ways to connect with audiences and create communities, from making personal unmanned aircraft to independent movie production to industrial design — and much more.
Episodes
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Episode #25: Save the Kickstarter, Save the world
Guests: Jonathan Coulton and Greg Pak It started as Twitter banter and turned into a blockbuster Kickstarter. The Internet's Jonathan Coulton and the comic world's Greg Pak have known each other since college. And when Greg put the bug in Jonathan's ear about creating a series of comic books…
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25: Save the Kickstarter, Save the World
It started as Twitter banter and turned into a blockbuster Kickstarter. The Internet's Jonathan Coulton and the comic world's Greg Pak have known each other since college. And when Greg put the bug in Jonathan's ear about creating a series of comic books based on heros and villains in Jonathan's...
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24: Shut Your Analog Hole
Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) is a essayist, novelist, blogger, and co-editor of BoingBoing, and he is exhausting. The man is a production machine, churning out excellent book after excellent book as if writing were a job instead of something to agonize and procrastinate over. As of this writing, his...
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23: Give Me Something to Read
Marco Arment helped bring Tumblr into existence, founded Instapaper and The Magazine, co-hosted the podcast Build & Analyze, and created the podcasts Neutral and Accidental Tech Podcast with Casey Liss and John Siracusa. He has a lot going on, but less than when we recorded this two-part podcast...
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22: Modular Design
(This is the second half of a conversation with Craig Mod. Part 1 is Episode #17: Everything in Moderation. In it we covered publishing and crowdfunding; in part 2, we talk about how to cope with the multi-platform disruptive future for publications.) Craig Mod writes essays that have the power…
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21: With a Little Help from Their Friends
Topato Corporation, known as Topatoco for short, has spent nearly a decade fulfilling artists' dreams. Started by Jeffrey Rowland to ship out merchandise related to his own webcomics, he expanded in 2007 to take on making and delivering books, T-shirts, and related goods for other cartoonists.…
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20: So Successful That He Fired Himself
Marco Arment's career has come in two main acts: as the first employee of Tumblr, he helped create a service that changed the fundamental nature of blogging by introducing both ease of creation and social networking. While there, he toyed with a service, to let him read Web pages offline without...
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19: The Straphangers Association
Duncan Davidson and Greg Koenig joined forces a few years back to start Luma Labs, a firm that makes across-the-chest camera straps. The two collaborated first on Luma Loop, a free-sliding camera strap, and then created Cinch, one that holds a camera tighter but still allows for movement. The…
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18: Tea Sticklers and Coffee Impressionists
Aly and Beth Khalifa have decades of experience in product design, both as consultants for clients and in making their own stuff. The Teastick was the first product they made and sold themselves; the Impress coffee filter is the latest. The North Carolina designers are bursting with ideas and…
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17: Everything in Moderation
Craig Mod writes essays that have the power to change the way you look at everything around you. At regular but somewhat distant intervals, he posts a long bit of writing that retrains your mind to see the world as he does. But he doesn't just talk: He creates projects that demonstrate his points...
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16: Baby Got Back Catalog
Jonathan Coulton has called into existence a world in which a bearded Brooklyn-residing, Yale-graduated, Whiffenpoof-participating programmer singing songs on nerdy topics he records in a home studio posted to the Internet can quit his job, build an army of fans, give his music partly away…
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15: Serial Artistry
Zach Weinersmith, the artist behind Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, takes nerdy Web comics to their logical extreme, and has developed a huge following among science geeks. We talk about his career, the popularity of Web comics, and fulfilling big Kickstarter campaigns in this podcast. Find…
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14: No Kind of Work for a Grown Man
John Gruber is either the world's biggest Apple fanboy or the most nuanced explicator of Cupertino's smoke signals, depending on whom you ask and on what day. In a more objective reality, John's Daring Fireball is the place you go to if you want to have a bigger-picture understanding of the...
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13: No-Host Bar Dot Net
Dalton Caldwell is the head of App.net (sometimes called ADN for App Dot Net), which some think is a Twitter competitor, but it isn't quite. It seems to be a typical venture-backed startup firm, but it is not quite that, either. There's a lot more under the surface of App.net, including neutrally...
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12: Où est la plume de ma Kickstarter?
Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang run CW&T, an art and design studio that produces an array of items ranging from purely commercial to completely aesthetic. The way they string projects along that spectrum offers a lot of insight into how one can fulfill one's own artistic vision in a world of…
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11: Expose Yourself to Art
Lumi makes a fabric-dye that becomes permanent when exposed to bright full-spectrum light, as from the sun. But that's not why the founders, Jesse Genet and Stéphan Angoulvant, are on the show. Rather, it's the way, starting with an obsession of Jesse's when she was 17, that the two bootstrapped…
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10: Go Home at 5 O'Clock
Jason Fried co-founded 37signals, a Web design company that found one of its internal tools for managing projects could be something effectively used by others. Millions of users later, 37signals offers Basecamp (overhauled substantially a year ago), Campfire, and Highrise among other services.…
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9: Iterative Imperative
Maker spaces are popping up all over where people can go and work with tools of all sorts, from woodworking to advanced 3D printers, to make things for themselves or prototype designs to manufacture. Seattle has been bereft of a large-scale facility with everything under one roof — until now.…
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8: Chain, Chain, Chain -- Chain of Tools
Tonya and Adam Engst have been disrupting publishing for 23 years, starting shortly after graduating Cornell University when they founded TidBITS, a Macintosh journal that is now the longest continuously produced Internet publication. The Engsts took the first online ad dollars (probably)…
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7: Any Color But Purple
Jim Coudal runs Coudal Partners, a small design firm in Chicago that crafts all sorts of things. More than a decade ago, the group decided to shift its business from mostly working for others to mostly working for themselves. Field Notes (with Aaron Draplin), The Deck advertising network, and…
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6: What's the Frequency, Andrea?
Andrea Seabrook spent more than a decade at National Public Radio, and covered Congress for a good part of that time. She left NPR to start something of her own: DecodeDC, a podcast and syndicated radio program (on this very network) that cuts through the blandification of politics, and speaks…
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5: Maker Love, Not Bore
Mark Frauenfelder likes to celebrate and encourage creativity in every form. He's the founder of BoingBoing, a directory of wonderful things that's encouraged "happy mutants" for over 15 years (and was a zine created with his wife, Carla Sinclair, before that), and the editor of Make Magazine…
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4: Long Stories Still Told
Evan Ratliff is cofounder, CEO, and editor of The Atavist, a monthly magazine of long-form, non-fiction journalism, and, more recently, a platform (called just "Atavist") for other publications and organizations to use to publish stories to many destinations: the Web, mobile apps, EPUB for...
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3: Good from the First Drop
Tony Konecny, better known as Tonx, has been sourcing and roasting beans for a numbers of years, and recently founded Tonx Coffee, a subscription service that delivers whole beans from small batch roasting every two weeks. It's not a bean of the month club. It's a way to bypass the overchoice…
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2: Come Fly with Me, Let's Fly, Let's Fly Away
Chris Anderson was the editor in chief of Wired Magazine for over a decade, during which time he wrote an "accidental" trilogy of three books: The Long Tail, Free, and Makers. His latest book details how a mild obsession with do-it-yourself drones (pilotless planes) sucked him into the maker...
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0: Fund, Make, Distribute
Welcome to a podcast that dives into how new ways creative people to fund, manufacture and produce, and distribute digital and physical goods to audiences they previously couldn't reach. The New Disruptors is about profound changes in the economy for making things. Listen to a brief introduction.
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The New Disruptors features interviews every week with artists, producers, and makers navigating the new ways to connect with audiences and create communities, from making personal unmanned aircraft to independent movie production to industrial design — and much more.
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The New Disruptors features interviews every week with artists, producers, and makers navigating the new ways to connect with audiences and create communities, from making personal unmanned aircraft to independent movie production to industrial design — and much more.
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