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BROADCAST DATE: Wednesday, 19 December, 2007
TIME: 10 a.m. EST/8 a.m PST
GUEST CALL-IN NUMBER: (646) 595-3863
This week's interview is with my former WELLpern friend and colleague Howard Rheingold. Howard is considered by many of us who have been on the Internet for years the consummate futurist.
Here's what Howard Rheingold has said about himself lately: In 1985, I became involved in the WELL, a computer conferencing system. I started writing about life in my virtual community and ended up with a book about the cultural and political implications of a new communications medium, The Virtual Community(1993 [New edition to be published by MIT Press in 2000]). I am credited with inventing the term "virtual community." I had the privilege of serving as the editor of The Whole Earth review and editor in chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog (1994). Here's my introduction to the Catalog, my riff on Taming Technology and a selection of my own articles and reviews from both publications.
In 1994, I was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. I quit after launch, because I wanted something more like a jam session than a magazine. In 1996, I founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched Electric Minds. Electric Minds was named one of the ten best web sites of 1996 by Time magazine and was acquired by Durand Communications in 1997. Since the late 1990s, I've cat-herded a consultancy for virtual community building.
My 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was widely acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. The weblog associated with the book has become one of the top 200 of the 8 million blogs tracked by Technorati, and won Utne Magazine's Independent Press Award in 2003. In 2005, I taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action that I have undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. The Cooperation Commons is the site of my ongoing investigation of cooperation and collective action. I teach Participatory Media/Collective Action at UC Berkeley's School of Information, Digital Journalism at Stanford University, am a non-resident Fellow of the Annenberg School for Communication, and am a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.
A CONVERSATION WITH ESTHER DYSON
BROADCAST DATE: Tuesday, 11 December, 2007
TIME: 11:30 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. PST
GUEST CALL-IN NUMBER: (646) 595-3863
This week's interview is with entrepreneur and Huffington Post Blogger Esther Dyson. If you've read her Blog at the HuffPost, you know she describes herself this way:
Esther Dyson is the Internet's court jester, a person of no institutional importance who somehow manages to speak the truth and to be heard when and where it matters. She does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004.
You can find out more from links at www.edventure.com, and especially about Flight School. Or you can e-mail her at edyson@boxbe.com. (You'll be challenged with a captcha, but give it a whirl!)
Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include 23andMe, Boxbe, CVO Group, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia)äand WPP Group (not a start-up). Some of her other direct IT investments include Flickr and Del.icio.us (sold to Yahoo!).
But that's not all by a long shot. Esther has a long running interest in Eastern Europe, as I do myself - having visited that part of the world - and does various philanthropic projects. You can read her full bio at the HuffPost to learn more about those.
I've had the privilege of interviewing this gracious lady many times over the years. My running joke, among friends, is that Charlie Rose and I have had Ms. Dyson as our guest within weeks of each other over the years. I thought I'd be ahead of Charlie this time, but he interviewed Ms. Dyson in August. Great minds, as they say. Oh well, 2008 is another year.
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12.05.07 BLOGTALKRADIO
GUESTS: The Linux.com Team
5 December, 2007 (Wednesday) Noon. CST
LISTENER CALL-IN: 646-595-3863
Slashdot.org sponsor at debate at Lightning Strikes on BlogTalkRadio.com about the Novell boycott initiatiave. Is is GNOME or OOXML? You can listen, call in and decide. Give your own questions at Linux.com.
Live podcast debate about OOXML this Wednesday starring Jeff Waugh, Roy Schestowitz, and ... you
By Linux.com Staff on December 03, 2007 (3:30:41 PM)
Linux.com ran an article headlined GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement on November 23. Jeff Waugh, the press officer on the GNOME Foundation Board, was prominently mentioned in that article and in several others to which it links. So was Roy Schestowitz, who wrote a post titled Anti-symbiosis: ODF, OOXML, Mono, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org on the Boycott Novell site, where he is a regular contributor. We thought getting them together might be illuminating.
This Wednesday, December 5, 2007, at 1 p.m. US EST (GMT -5) Linux.com is hosting a live podcast featuring Jeff Waugh, Roy Schestowitz, and reporter Bruce Byfield, who wrote the November 23 Linux.com article. Our editor in chief, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller, will moderate the discussion, which you can access either through a link we'll post here on Linux.com about 30 minutes before the conversation starts or directly at BlogTalkRadio.
You will be able to call in by phone (US non-toll-free number) to participate directly in the live conversation or, if you prefer, you can post questions here, in advance, for us to ask during the show.
The podcast will be archived for future downloading, so you'll still be able to hear it if you are unable to join us on Wednesday, but we sincerely hope you will be there, live, and that you not only listen but call in and participate in the conversation yourself.
LIGHTNING STRIKES is your place for both technology and social issues. You choose.
12.03.07 BLOGTALKRADIO
GUEST: AR Communications Senior Vice President CARMI LEVY
Co-Hosts: Rod Amis & Christina Shideler
3 December, 2007 Monday 01:00 p.m. CST
LISTENER CALL-IN: 646-595-3863
Carmi Levy is Senior Vice President of Strategic Consulting for AR Communications Inc., a Toronto, Canada-based marketing communications company specializing in strategic consulting and marketing services.
With over 12 years experience in the IT industry, Carmi is a widely quoted expert in a range of areas, including e-mail and messaging, mobile and wireless, desktop systems, help desks, and telephony/Voice over IP (VoIP). He is also an expert in IT best practices in the financial services sector.
Carmi's background includes over a decade in IT with Canada's largest financial services organization, London Life Insurance Company. He built, launched, and managed technical support help desks, and became a widely quoted expert on help desk re-engineering and best practices. Later, he oversaw the implementation of significant changes to his organization's valuation, compensation, and sales force automation systems.
Carmi was an early proponent of using Internet- and intranet-based technologies to facilitate more efficient organizational communication, and leveraged these tools during a series of high-profile corporate mergers. In 2002, he developed and delivered a college-level course on optimizing business communication at Fanshawe College in London.
Carmi is the author of the best practices methodology, Optimizing Your IT Infrastructure, published in 2004 by the Info-Tech Research Group. The next year, he wrote the research report, Building the Next Generation Help Desk . Carmi has also contributed to a range of technology and mainstream media publications and regularly speaks on how technology is leveraged in a business context.
Carmi's background includes a number of years as a broadcaster, where he was accountable for the production of a daily news and public affairs program for Montreal's leading FM radio station. He holds a journalism degree from Montreal's Concordia University.
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