Tummelvision: Recent Episodes
Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, & Deborah Schultz
During the past week I conducted an experiment in digital empathy. Background As many of you are aware, I am obsessed with the potential of enabling and integrating our digital 1/0 lives into our human emotive sides. I don’t just […]
hi gang, We’re putting the show on hiatus so we can improve infrastructure and evaluate network opportunities. That’s the concise way to say we want our production process to work as well as possible, so there are minimal delays for […]
Debs is on vacation and Kevin has just returned from the Privacy Identity Innovation Conference! Heather and Kevin use Mat Honan’s article about Yahoo’s missteps with Flickr as a lense to discuss the multitude of acquisition blunders. Why don’t boards of […]
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 […]
“Community is the people you’re stuck with.” -Lukas Blakk Lukas Blakk from Mozilla joins us for an exciting discussion about what constitutes actual community – and it’s not just sharing interests. Lukas defines “community” – a word she finds is […]
Senior editor at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal joins Tummelvision for a lively discussion of crusty old paradigms in start-ups and software products. The group rallies around the Ta-Nehisi Coates model of journalism before moving onto Alexis’ recent article, The Jig […]
“Soundbytes are great, but people are starved for dinner conversation.” -Debs Tummelvision looks back after 100 episodes! The discussion focusses on the growing value of tummeling in the world since the podcast began, illustrated by phenomena such as the Arab […]
“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 […]
We’re sorry to say that TummelVision is on temporary hiatus to deal with family priorities. There will be no show Feb 23rd and we’ll keep you updated here. Interim assignment: Buy a drink for someone you don’t know and get […]
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.
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.
On September 8th, TummelVision will return in its full glory, but during our brief summer break/burning man respite, we invite you to dip into our catalog of dozens of fascinating discussions with remarkable guests. In particular, this week we’re enjoying […]
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.
cc 2.0 by somethingstartedcrazy Here’s a piece producer Andrew brought to our attention about Digital Nomads. It’s becoming increasingly common for web folk to travel as they work. My life was totally like this on the road when I […]
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 […]
All of the TummelVision hosts, and many of the guests, will be spending the next week or so in Austin, Texas for South by South West (SXSW). For me, the point of 20,000 web geeks squishing into a few blocks […]
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 […]
What I’ve been saying a long time. The premise of TummelVision is that everythign is made of people. We make everything we have. Only Alex, a brilliant technologist (thank him for twitter to some degree and the upcoming bank simple […]
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 […]
One of the reasons I care about Tummeling is to help technologists step outside their simple models of the world and think about how people actually react, so I was very encouraged to see a couple of posts by English […]
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 […]
Brian Zisk is a strategist specializing in music, technology, and founder advising. He is a pioneering social organizer in the San Francisco Bay area. In this episode of TummelVision, Brian talks with Deb, Heather, and Kevin about CES, the continuing […]
Tom Coates has been blogging and working on social software since well before either of them got that name. He cares very much about making the web a suitable place for people to live in, and has been doing so […]
Tara Hunt, tummler par excellence, entrepreneur, and author of The Whuffie Factor, talks with Deborah Schultz and Kevin Marks about Wikileaks, the demise of Delicious, the uses of Twitter, the essence of “Whuffie,” and her new social shopping start-up Shwowp. “Every […]
Willow Witte of Join The Impact talks with Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and guest host Sarah Dopp about gender, political organizing online, and queer activism in response to California’s Proposition 8.
Social philosopher and webthropologist Stowe Boyd joins the TummelVision crew to talk about social cognition, coding gender, and “betweenness.”
Happy Thanksgiving to all our TummelVision listeners, participants, tummlers and crew. We’re grateful for the work of so many of our guests and community who are doing great work to make the web and the people and places in their […]
Heather Woodbury joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deborah Schultz to talk about culture, the social web, and performance art. Called “a one woman Dickens” by Laurie Anderson, Heather’s work encompasses scores of characters in novelistic performances (see, for example, videos […]
Huffduff It [what?] The TummelVision gang visits with an old friend, Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Some of the ideas, stories, and links mentioned in this […]
On Thursday, November 11, the TummelVision crew welcomes a special guest star, someone who’s worked on the web for a longtime as a leading advocate for customers advocating for themselves Doc Searls. If you have a question for Doc, or […]
Josh Klein is a technologist, hacker, and rule-breaking innovator. With Bill Jensen, he’s the author of the new book Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results. In this episode of Tummelvision, he talks with Heather, Kevin, and Deb about […]
The people in authority who make the rules interfere with the people who know how to do the job and are in direct contact with the situation. The people who make the rules know nothing about the work they’re interfering […]
Part of our passion surrounding Tummelvision is stems from our desire to explore and highlight the dynamics of what is needed to create engaged social spaces online. Kevin and Deb led a session at the recent O’reilly Open Web Foo […]
Dave Gray, visual thinker and CEO of XPLANE, talks with Heather Gold and Deb Schultz about gamestorming, design, and visual tummeling.
The 3 of us were actually in a room together to tummel the first Crowd Conference: a conference about crowdsourcing work.
Some additional conversation between Blaine Cook and Kevin Marks, including questions and comments from the TummelVision chat room (which features very smart people like Sarah Dopp)
Blaine Cook [@blaine], founding engineer at Twitter and an open web standards wizard, joins Heather, Deb, and Kevin to talk about hopes, dreams and plans for a more open, yet more personalized Internet. Huffduff It [what?]
Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about the importance of real content in business and social interaction. Listen and subscribe on iTunes. Huffduff It [what?]
Schlomo joins Heather, Debs and Kevin to talk about Burning Man, co-ordinating groups, and proposes mandatory public service.
Jyri Engeström, entrepreneur and founder of Jaiku, was once Google’s “accidental sociologist.” He weaves together a wealth of knowledge of the social web and social science. [Technical note: Even though Jyri and Kevin helped make the Internet work, they still […]
Steve Rosenbaum is a pioneer in online video and someone who has been thinking deeply about “curation” since long before it became a buzzword. You can read his insightful commentary at the Huffington Post and dip into his interesting twitter […]
Joshua Fouts and Rita King run Dancing Ink Productions and study diplomacy and cultural relations in virtual worlds. We discussed their recent project on understanding Islam in depth as well as the recent Tea Party candidate victories and the organizational […]
The TummelVision crew is taking this week off, so listen to the live stream tonight at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST to catch a repeat of one of the first shows featuring Zoe Keating. We’ll be back next week!
Marshall Kirkpatrick, one of the smartest writers on the web, visits with Heather Gold, Deb Schultz, and Kevin Marks in this week’s episode of TummelVision. Marshall is widely known as “The Lady Gaga of Tech” (according to Heather), but he […]
Jay Rosen is professor of journalism at New York University, a prolific “mindcaster” on twitter, and a blogger at Press Think. Hosts: Kevin Marks, Deb Schultz, and Heather Gold Some links, concepts, and comments mentioned in this episode: Jay’s legendary 2006 […]
Dan Pink‘s talk animated by RSA (who doesn’t seem to give the illustrator’s name, sorry). This is an evidence research-based translation of some of the basic premises we focus on in TummelVision: that we are motivated by each other. That […]
For Xenophrenia and everyone who’s asked about our recent session at SuperNova. Thanks to Kevin Werbach for having us.
We’re taking a week off this week…but don’t fret! We’re presenting “Best of” episodes when this happens (which won’t be often)! This week you can relive our episode that featured Allee Willis. Check it out here at our regular time […]
Heather and I did a brief video interview with Howard Greenstein [our episode 23 guest] after out Tummeling Session at Supernova explaining the concept. Enjoy! Zing moments: Heather bringing in Arthur Miller’s classic line from Death of A Salesman – […]
Brynn Evans and Julie Hamwood visit to talk about social interaction design, the demise of Google Wave, and the myriad differences between Twitter and Facebook. Brynn summarized the discussion at her blog with much more elegance than any show notes […]
Nice piece entitled “Team Coordination Is Key in Businesses” by the Heath bros on the importance of coordination for success. As they smartly point out: We tend to underestimate the amount of effort needed to coordinate with other people. In […]
Christy Dena is a specialist in producing transmedia projects… forms of storytelling that reach across the web’s full range of communication tools. From her home in Melbourne, Australia, she joins Heather Gold, Kevin Marks, and Deb Schultz in discussing the […]
Great Ted talk from Ethan Zuckerman on the fact that we are less cross-linked and cross connected than we think we are. Our argument to avoid the homophily that Zuckerman discusses ? Tummlers, of course!
How interactions on the web are changing The next stage of the web won’t have destinations, it will be a distributed network of content and people that will get reassembled depending on context and relationships. The increase in people interactions […]