Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss the Cluetrain Manifesto on its 25th anniversary, how the world has and hasn't changed since, and about SCaLE 21x (Southern California Linux Expo) coming up March 14. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

In this episode of 'Reality 2.0', hosts Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza, an AI expert. The discussion centered on the potential of AI and its relationship to personal empowerment. Exploring the current state of AI, the hosts express concerns about data security and appropriately leveraging AI's capabilities for individual b…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls learn all about Project Bluefin, a new cloud native friendly Linux distribution, from its creator, Jorge Castro, and Kyle Rankin, its newest enthusiast. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Jorge Castro and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Worksta…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about his journey into Kubernetes and the cloud native landscape. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation — The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, …

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Kyle Rankin discuss the personal AI tools they'd like to have, what's available, and how they might come together. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI commercial users get sued - The Verge — Some u…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Michael Stolarczyk about the complex ways in which physical goods go around the world, and behind-the-scenes strategies at play. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Michael Stolarczyk. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman chat with Joe Brockmeier about WordPress turning 25 and our increasing desires to carve out our own homes on the web. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Joe Brockmeier. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about his new book for aspiring authors, discuss the publishing process, self-discipline, marketing, and share their expertise from their decades as authors. Notes: [00:01:04] Intro to Kyle's new book, "How To Write A Tech Book." [00:04:52] Vetting your idea and pitching to a publisher [00:09:24…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about rescuing personal archives, personal AI, and preserving our identities. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to David Kirichenko about Ukraine, journalism, troll farms and disinformation in times of war. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: David Kirichenko. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Kirichenko Profile and Collections - Wakelet — David Kirichenko is a Ukrainian-American freelance journalist.…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Josh Hester about his new project exploring personal AI. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Josh Hester. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Don't Fear The AIBy Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Golda Velez about the state of AI, how it relates to identity, ethics, and where this all goes from here. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Golda Velez. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about a proposal for authenticating content with cryptographic signing, and saving the internet. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it. — LLMs break the internet. The going rate f…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to prolific tech author, Kyle Rankin, about how he recently self-published his latest book, and how that differs from his many experiences with traditional publishers. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Kyle Rankin - Books and Publications Spot…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss an open letter to pause AI development. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society' | Reuters — Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence e…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Shawn's head's appearance at the recent SCaLE conference and 3D printing, all while having a little too much fun. Hit play if you always wondered about our Myers-Briggs types. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Supp…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls hear Dave Huseby's new ideas about identity verification and data authenticity in commerce. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Dave Huseby. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Cryptid Technologies — Necessary Security at Unprecedented Scale We offer flexible APIs for building zero-knowledge proof …

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza about AI-based search. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Ezequiel Lanza. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Perplexity AI: Ask Anything Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again - The New York Times — Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft …

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk to Don Marti about Permission Slip, the new data privacy app from Consumer Reports. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Don Marti and Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Introducing Permission Slip, the app to take back control of your data | Digital Lab a…

Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers about teaching tech skills with online video and building communities. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: BASH Scripting 101 - YouTube Shawn Powers - Wikipedia — Shawn Powers (born 19 July 1975) is a journalist, Open Source evangelist, carto…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dan Miller of Opus Research about the future of Speech and AI. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Dan Miller. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Dan Miller, Author at — Dan Miller has over 25 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate strategy for telecom service pr…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk about Facebook's recent Irish problems, Google's Performance Max ad product, and digress into discussing the Houston food scene as we welcome back Reality 2.0 for 2023. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Data Protection Commission tries to make victory of its U-turn on Fa…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Ezequiel Lanza and Tony Mongkolsmai about ChatGPT, generative AI, and open source software. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Ezequiel Lanza and Tony Mongkolsmai. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Attention is All You Need – Google Research — The dominant sequence transduction models a…

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn have fun with ChatGPT, rant about email disasters, and chat about Apple's new encrypted backups. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue — We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Why The U.S. Fell Behind In Phone Manufacturing - YouTube JMP: Your phone number on e…

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin discuss the ups, downs, and how-tos of using Mastodon amid Twitter's recent instability. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A S…

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk digital wallets and current events. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: The digital wallet will be the biggest instrument of personal agency since the browser—but only if we make it ours — Apple and Google already have a …

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls speculate about Twitter's future and discuss the evolution of audience engagement. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Things To Never Say To Someone Who Owns A Tesla — Unless you’d like to get run over by a rich, angry tech bro with a chip on their shoulder, you might want to …

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers talk communication breakdown in social media, its impact on our culture, and what technical solutions may exist. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid - The Atlantic — Wha…

When Doc is away, Katherine and Shawn Powers play! (With Static HTML generators) Katherine and Shawn talk about Hugo, a static site generator, WordPress, and the content creator life. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: The world’s fastest framework for building websites | Hugo — Hu…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about religion, politics, tribalism, sexism, and viral blog posts. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Green Hair, Mustard Seeds, and Me - The Brain of Shawn — It’s been a couple weeks now, and my green hair is starting to fade.…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk about Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive that aims to prevent them from lending ebooks. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with co…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss Apple's latest updates, the end of an era, neighborhoods, and more. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Apple Events - Apple Apple's Passkey Replaces Passwords With iPhone and Mac Authentication | WIRED — Apple’s iOS 16 and macOS Ventura will introduce passwordless logi…

Katherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about his Decentralized Web Camp experience. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: DWeb Camp — Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers, to gather in nature to tackle the real world challe…

Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers about home automation using a combination of open source software and proprietary devices using Home Assistant. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powere…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Adrian Gropper, CTO of Patient Privacy Rights, about health data and human rights, delegating patient agency, and health data standards. Special Guest: Adrian Gropper. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Patient Privacy Rights — Patient Privacy Rights’ purpose is to honor and empower the individual’s right to privac…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about the data cars collect, where it goes, and how we’re really just driving around in a smart phone that we don’t even own. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? – The Markup…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls celebrate Doc's birthday and chat about Amazon acquisitions and privacy legislation. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

Katherine Druckman talks to Petros Koutoupis about maintaining RapidDisk, his open source RAM disk software. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: GitHub - pkoutoupis/rapiddisk: An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devic…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables, about design and fabrication with 3D carving, maker culture, and the history of Inventables. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Zach Kaplan. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Projects | Inventables Creating the First Usable Mouse | ideo.com — In 1…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gordon Jones and Erica Barnette about Thrivacy, their new digital wallet for private, verifiable credentials. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Erica Barnette and Gordon Jones. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Understanding DIDComm. A cross-community effort to standardize… | b…

Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Adam Bergstein about the evolution of CMSes, the current landscape, and how they fit in with today’s siloed web. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Adam Bergstein. Support Reality 2.0 Links: DrupalCon 2022 Recap | Nerdstein — While the CMS and D…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Paul Bailey of Cognitive Space about open source code, aerospace engineering, managing satellites, and the space shuttle! Listen to the end for your next weekend project. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Paul Bailey . Support Reality 2.0 Links: Cognitive Space — Access t…

Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about how to advertise without being creepy. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Is Ethical Advertising Possible? – Purism — Is ethical advertising possible? We all certainly know unet…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dave Huseby of Cryptid.tech about pseudonymous authentication and verifiable data. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Dave Huseby. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Reality 2.0 Episode 112: Pseudonymous Authentication for Twitter — Katherine Druckman and Kyle Rankin talk to Dave …

Katherine Druckman and Kyle Rankin talk to Dave Huseby about his new approach to pseudonymous user authentication. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Dave Huseby and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Authentication With Pseudonymity - Cryptid Technologies — Authentication With Pseudonymity How Elon can Lega…

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Holmes Wilson about Quiet, a Tor-based peer-to-peer messaging project. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Holmes Wilson and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: GitHub - ZbayApp/monorepo — An early prototype for a peer-to-peer alternative to Slack and D…

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Shawn Powers have far too much fun continuing the conversation about Mastodon and the fediverse, with a dose of photography. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls

Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about moving from Twitter to the Fediverse using Mastodon, including how to choose a server and find your niche. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Giving social networking back to you - Mastodon — Fo…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Don Marti about ad tech and its many consequences, as well as recent efforts to reform it. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Don Marti. Support Reality 2.0 Links: IAB Tech Lab — Today, IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced an up…