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 triangulation, systems of acknowledgement and the tower of Babel that comes…

“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 community. Twelve year olds are now saying Facebook is for old people and Heather makes a 12-year-old’s face at the t…

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

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 Daisey vs Journalism: Ethan Zuckerman, Director of MIT Center for Civic Media [Tummelvision guest Episode 71]…

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: Rethinking Knowledge now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere and the Smartest Person in the Room is t…

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 viewed through a singular marketing/support lens. I worry that if we don’t elevate the conversation…

I first met Willo O’Brien (@willotoons) because, well, it’s hard not to meet Willo O’Brien in the San Francisco geek world. She loves people, knows what’s up and loves to make connections. Willo is an illustrator who built a successful design business called Willotoons with t-shirts,cards, websites and all the cuteness you could want to buy. In the…

Yoz Grahame (@yoz) talks about online games, real emotion, Douglas Adams, Second Life, Ning, and all manner of online communities.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz

Amber Case (@caseorganic) joins us to talk about emotion, cyber anthropology, Geoloqi, and the quantified self.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, & Deborah Schultz

Maciej Ceglowski (@pinboard) joins us to talk about the sustainability of online services, artisanal software, and ardent fan fiction communities. We highly recommend his Pinboard.in bookmarking service and his blog Idle Words.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz

Journalist Quinn Norton (@QuinnNorton) joins us to talk #SOPA and #Occupy and to introduce us to our new SEO keyword: “stochastic.”By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz

Alex Howard (@digiphile) of O’Reilly Media joins the gang to talk #sopa, the state of Congressional tech literacy, and Gov 2.0 in general.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz

Adriana Lukas (@adriana872) joins us to talk about her research on heterarchy and many other fascinating topics.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz

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.…

Jill Slater (@jilber) joins the gang to discuss everything from sustainable food and urban planning to Jewish traditions and modern Israel. She covers everything from how to teach awkward teens to dance the hora and to designing a lively urban space.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz

Grant McCracken (@grant27 | cultureby.com) is an anthropologist. He’s been director of the Institute of Contemporary Culture, senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, and research affiliate at C3 at MIT. He’s the author of Culture and Consumption, Culture and Consumption II, Plenitude, Big Hair, The Long Interview, Flock and Flow, Transforma…

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. Notes and Links: Christopher Alexander on A Pattern Language Deanna Zandt: “we walk in many worlds and belong to none“ Creative…

A just-in-the-family episode featuring a deep discussion of the Occupy Wall Street movement with Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz. If you need to register or transfer domain names, be sure to visit our wonderful sponsor Hover. Use the promo code “tummel” and receive 10% off!By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz

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. Mark joined us from Australia where he teaches at the University of Sydney’s Digital Cultures Program. He is at work on a book project entitled The Next Billion Seconds and blogs at The…

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 broa…

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 – …

Social computing scientist Liz Lawley discusses pseudonymity and anonymity, the fallacy of influence, and the serious work of games and fun on the web. Follow the discussion that unfolded during the recording at CoveritLive.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, & Deborah Schultz

Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) teaches digital media entrepreneurship and is founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Dan Gillmor’s current book project is Mediactive and you can find him on Google+. As you listen to this episode o…

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. Click here to replay the live chat.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz

Ellen Dudley of Crowdscanner joins us to talk about social interaction tools, werewolves, and improving real-life conversation. Click here to replay the live chat.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz

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. Click here to replay the live chat.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz

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.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, & Deborah Schultz

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 people. Check out the Namesake conversation about Tummeling and revisit the live chatroom discussion from C…

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 focu…

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 future of the social graph, openness, and living online. Notes and Notes: Tantek’s book: HTML5 Now: A Step…

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, and Deb Schultz to talk about his book, the governance of the Internet, and online culture. News a…

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…

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. He’s a ukulele player who enjoys singing songs from the 1930s. A…

Mark Krynsky (@krynsky) of the X PRIZE Foundation & Lifestreamblog.com joins us to talk about competition, cooperation, and the folly of trying to measure online “influence.” News and Notes: M.I.T. Media Lab Names a New Director – New York Times New Director of MIT Media Lab Talks of Encouraging Openness – Chronicle of Higher Education Peter Thiel …

Andy Carvin (@acarvin) is digital strategist for National Public Radio. He has helped NPR create their pioneering online presence, coordinated multiple crisis camps, and he’s organized the PublicMediaCamp unconference. In recent months, Andy has engaged in a globalized twitter-enabled form of tummelled journalism as he has curated, fact-checked, an…

After the recording of our “official” episode 62 discussion with NPR’s Andy Carvin, we continued for another 45 minutes of in-depth conversation about his work, deeper themes of connectedness, and some insights on the tools and mobile phone Andy uses in his work.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz

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 thi…

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.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz

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. Courtney is Producer at Subatomic Studios, founder of Women in Games Boston, and co-founder of cabaret and burlesque troupe Bitches of Destiny. News and Notes “Why a…

Thomas Knoll joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about love, community architecture, Zappos, tech, and humanity.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz

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). Searching for words to describe Silona’s tummelling skills, Kevin Marks says: “she founded the League of Technical Voters, Citability.org, she’s been the ACLU and EFF liaison to Texas Rep…

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 editor of its blog techPresident. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently WikiLeaks 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 Online is the original Tummler how-to guide. Enjoy this conversation with the godfather …

The guest this week is Juliette Powell, media strategist, author of 33 Million People in the Room and co-founder of The Gathering Think Tank. Juliette is a natural-born Tummler who catalyzes ideas and people across business, media and culture. Juliette and the gang offered some practical tummelling tips, discussed collaboration across disciplines, …

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 Graduate School of Journalism.…

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 and interface design, and whether “shipping code” is the only m…

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: “There is a new role for individuals in the web who serve as ‘antennas’ who collect and feed b…

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.By Kevin Marks and Deborah Schultz

This week on Tummelvision Umair Haque talks with us about his book The New Capitalist Manifesto, the imbalanced state of the union, Silicon Valley’s disruption deficit disorder, and much, much more. Umair is an old pal of the tummel-crew. Four years ago when I first met Umair we both had a meeting of the minds on the fundamental shifts impacting bu…

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 very public way.By Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz