Tummelvision

Kio Stark stops into Tummelvision to discuss – you guessed it – how people relate with & to technology!  Kio teaches about human social dynamics at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Topics include Kio’s ITP syllabus, “bro-gramming”, Zuck’s hoodie, instruments for […]

“You can’t have art without resistance in the materials” Quoting William Morris, Paul Ford explains that when he wants to learn something he goes out and finds the appropriate software. In the limits of the software you might find a […]

Heather Gold and Kevin Marks on Tummeling, Bubbles, and how media representations affect how people believe. Full chat transcript available here.

We’re back. Heather, Debs and Kevin talk about the tummeling stories we’ve missed over the last month. Here’s the chat transcript in full Some related links below: SXSW 2012:  A decidedly different show – PR attendance up a whopping 30% Mike […]

David Weinberger really is the perfect TummelVision guest. He’s an Internet philosopher who focuses on the big picture of how we learn and what the Net is reflecting and doing to our culture. His current book is Too Big To Know: […]

This past week celebrated the third annual “Community Manager Appreciation Day“.  As I saw the tweets roll by, I realized I have become increasingly frustrated and worried that the roll of Community Manager is not yet defined as strategic and is often […]

We talk with Stitch Labs co-founder and VP marketing Willo O'Brien about entrepreneurial creative lives and how the Net and economy have expanded the number of people working this way. We'll talk adapting the artistic life, collaboration, social media and infrastructure for this decentralized work.

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

Amber Case (@caseorganic) joins us to talk about emotion, cyber anthropology, geoloqi, and the quantified self.

Maciej Ceglowski (@pinboard) joins us to talk about the sustainability of online services, artisanal software, and social bookmarking for introverts. We highly recommend his Pinboard.in bookmarking service and his blog Idle Words.

Journalist Quinn Norton, #SOPA!, #Occupy!, and our new SEO keyword "stochastic"

Alex Howard (@digiphile) of O'Reilly Media joins the gang to talk #sopa, the state of Congressional tech literacy, and Gov 2.0

Adriana Lukas (@adriana872) joins us to talk about her research on heterarchy and many other fascinating topics.

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.

Jill Slater (@jilber) joins the gang to discuss everything from sustainable food and urban planning to Jewish traditions and modern Israel.

Grant McCracken (@grant27 | cultureby.com) is an anthropologist and author of Chief Culture Officer.

Fresh from ContactCon in New York, the gang connects with Deanna Zandt (@randomdeanna) and Dorian Taylor (@doriantaylor) to talk about privilege, taxonomies, social media alchemy, and the economics of cultural production.

A just-in-the-family episode of Heather Gold, Deb Schultz, and Kevin Marks discussing Occupy Wall Street and more.

In the first TummelVision episode of the post-Steve Jobs era, the gang is joined by Mark Pesce (@mpesce), an inventor, writer, entrepreneur, educator and broadcaster.

Jim Bower (@superid101) joins us to discuss Whyville, animal husbandry, and computational neuroscience.

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.

Social computing scientist Liz Lawley discusses pseudonymity and anonymity, the fallacy of influence, and the serious work of games and fun on the web.

Journalist and digital media expert Dan Gillmor @dangillmor joins us to talk about the future of news, technology, and community online.

Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) on tummelling at the essential social tool of the future, the web's social backbone, continuous mass conversations, and the future of thought in the age of machines.

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

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT's Media Lab. He joins us to talk about Google Plus, fan fiction, serendipity, and universal imperfect multilingualism.

Dina Mehta of convo.org joins us from Mumbai/Bombay to talk about the advent of Google+, connecting people online in times of crisis, and global conversation and community. Click here to replay the live chat.

Dan Gould is founder of Namesake, a new online business community centered around conversations. He joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz to talk about the project, as well as recent events at the intersection of tech, culture, and […]

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 […]

Tantek Çelik is an independent technologist, writer, teacher… the notorious @t on twitter… and a vocal proponent of open web standards. In the wake of the Schema announcement, Tantek joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about the present and […]

Eli Pariser is an online organizer and disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and now the board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and the author of The Filter Bubble. This week on TummelVision, Eli joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, […]

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 […]

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.

Mark Krynsky of the X Prize Foundation & Lifestreamblog.com joins us to talk about competition, cooperation, and the folly of trying to measure online "influence."

Andy Carvin, digital strategist for National Public Radio, discusses twitter journalism, tummelling the world, and truth-seeking through vulnerability.

Additional discussion with NPR's Andy Carvin. See also TummelVision episode 62.

Tummler of programmers Dion Almaer joins the gang to talk about communities and conflicts among coders, Twitter gossip, controlling our data, online "enchantment," and more.

After some technical challenges, Heather Gold joins the conversation with Courtney Stanton, on rape culture, PTSD, community, and more.

This week on TummelVision, the gang is joined by Courtney Stanton (@kirbybits), who relates her experiences contending with trolls and vitriol on the subject of rape culture in gaming.

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

Silona Bonewald of Austin, Texas weighs-in on Lady Gaga vs. Facebook, open source environments, and avoiding poisonous people (not to mention a few other topics).

Still a little hoarse from SxSW, Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz report on their experiences and are joined by guest Micah L. Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, which covers the ways technology is changing politics, and […]

From SxSW in Austin, Heather Gold and Kevin Marks talk with Howard Rheingold, who has been studying and writing inspiringly about virtual communities since the 1990s, and has been online continually since the mid-1980s. His The Art of Hosting Good Conversations […]

Uber-tummler Juliette Powell, author of 33 Million People in the Room, joins the gang to talk about how to tummel, collaborating across disciplines, leaderless revolution, and Dutch schoolchildren.

In this episode of TummelVision, the gang talks about “public parts,” revolutionary technologies, and media disruption with Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? and the forthcoming Public Parts, founder of Entertainment Weekly and professor at City University of New York’s […]

This week’s guest is Molly Steenson, a digital strategist, design researcher, architectural historian and Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. Molly joins Deb Schultz and Kevin Marks to discuss the implications of IBM’s Watson winning jeopardy, the hidden links between architecture […]

Writer Paul Ford (a.k.a., Ftrain.com) joins Kevin and Deb to talk about the Egyptian revolution, whether Arianna Huffington is a tummler, and the ultimate question of the entire Internet: Why Wasn’t I Consulted? Paul on Twitter: @ftrain Quote of the Week: […]

Brady Forrest joins Deb and Kevin to talk about the tummlers of the Egyptian revolution, humanizing oceans of data, and the birth of the now-global phenomenon of Ignite.

Umair Haque talks about his book The New Capitalist Manifesto, the imbalanced state of the union, Silicon Valley's disruption deficit disorder, and much, much more.

In addition to the usual smart, witty banter, this episode of TummelVision is graced by a sample from the work of composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa. Lisa is creating work that brings together many musicians and creates art in a […]