Douglas Rushkoff's Blog, page 50
June 18, 2009
Be part of the Media Squat theme tune
We are currently making a new intro and outro theme for Doug’s radio
show, The Media Squat on WFMU
We are looking for people to call into our hotline voicemail and leave a
very short ’shout out’. The idea is to have a collage of voices saying
things, whether it’s the name of the show or a short sentence or even
sound.
Here are some particular phrases we are looking for, but not limited to:
1. The Media Squat
2. The Media Squat on WFMU
3. Free Form Radio
4. Open Source
5. Find the others
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June 17, 2009
Life Inc. Launch and Party, Join us NYC
Thursday, June 18th: Book reading and launch party
Blue Stockings, book reading 7pm
172 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
Sutra Lounge AfterParty - 8:30p onward
16 1st Ave, NYC.
For more information about the after party including musically guest and venue:
click here
also:
Facebook Invite
Going to be a blast!
June 16, 2009
Guardian Reviews Life Inc
The Guardian just devoted a whole lot of space to an interview with me about Life Inc, and how the sensibility of the book came from a tech-head like me.
Rushkoff says he started working on the book more than four years ago (although getting mugged brought the project into sharper focus). Back then, friends and acquaintances scoffed at his predictions that the housing bubble was going to hurt a lot further down the line. “It’s a little sad,” he says. “I wrote the book in the future tense, and th
One Man, One Tweet
I posted a piece I like late last night to the Daily Beast - where I’ve just become a columnist - about social networking in Iran.
Most observers of the Twitter-fueled revolution rightly point out that this activity is at its most effective when it actually mobilizes real humans, puts bodies on the street, and gives dissidents the opportunity to organize successful retreats. Digital dissidence alone is easy, and easy to ignore.
But I think it’s also too easy to underestimate the real power of the
One Man, One Tweet
I posted a piece I like late last night to the Daily Beast - where I’ve just become a columnist - about social networking in Iran.
Most observers of the Twitter-fueled revolution rightly point out that this activity is at its most effective when it actually mobilizes real humans, puts bodies on the street, and gives dissidents the opportunity to organize successful retreats. Digital dissidence alone is easy, and easy to ignore.
But I think it’s also too easy to underestimate the real power of the
June 15, 2009
Life Inc. Dispatch 04: If a Tree Falls in the Forest, Does Anyone Hear?
Life Inc. Dispatch 04:
If a Tree Falls in the Forest, Does Anyone Hear?
Life Inc. Dispatch 04: If A Tree Falls In The Forest, Does Anyone Hear? from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.
June 14, 2009
Life Inc. Tour: Interviews, Reviews and More
A compilation of some of the better interviews, reviews and media Doug has received and done in the past two weeks on the Life Inc. Tour.
OnPoint WBUR NPR, Tom Ashbrook
Radio Interview, Everything Incorporated
WordofMouth NHPR NPR, Virginia Prescott
Radio Interview, Our Corporatized Lives
NBC New York, Laurence Scott
News Report and Review, Your Life or Your ‘Life Inc’
June 7, 2009
Air America Interviews
Rushkoff and others on Air America’s Ring Of Fire with Mike Papantonio:
Rushkoff and others on Air America’s Break Room Live with Marc Maron
June 5, 2009
Life Inc. Dispatch 03: Money as Debt
Life Inc. Dispatch 03:
Money as Debt
Life Inc. Dispatch 03: Money as Debt from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.
June 4, 2009
Rushkoff on Daily Beast
I’ve been writing some Life Inc-related pieces for Daily Beast this week.
Here’s one on Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, or How Google Trained Your Brain
And here’s another on Obama’s CyberDefense Czar, and the failure of Command and Control on a distributed battlefield.
