Tummelvision 98: Back from hiatus. SXSW, Mike Daisey and sexism in tech

Tummelvision 103 Kio Stark: Stranger Studies, Incubating Emotions and Naming Lipstick Colours

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. [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/stranger-studies-101-cities-as-interaction-machines/62315/] Topics include Kio’s ITP syllabus, “bro-gramming”, Zuck’s hoodie, instruments for triangulation, systems of acknowledgement and the tower of Babel that comes from an outward-focussed web. The group makes a very important distinction that what draws most people online is connectivity – not just information – and that we are in the “nursery school” stage of development as far as building social spaces that work online. Chat Transcript [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NCd8X1oe9LG4v0DY9mYZUbkwd59c3ZGFEz1ztOsSiXs/edit]& Storify Recap [http://storify.com/darkheartfelt/tummelvision-episode-103]

Tummelvision 100: Paul Ford, Andy Baio on the Facebook acquisition of Instagram, buying ‘community” and the New Aesthetic.

“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 thought of Facebook buying Instagram. The group discusses Instagram’s future within the walls of Facebook. Will it get dragged into the Menlo Park swamp or will it go the way of Youtube?  An almost purely mobile photo app with few features, Instagram is applauded as a less judgmental environment for people who don’t know how to shoot real photographs. Spontaneity ensues as Andy Baio stops by.  He is the founder of Upcoming.org, a former CTO of Kickstarter.com, and author of the Waxy.org blog. Andy is a less hopeful and thinks Instagram could very well get sawed into pieces. The conversation turns to “The New Aesthetics” – a phenomenon that Andy says smells like machine vision. Paul Ford weighs in on the topic by way of Aaron Cope and Heather by way of Bruce Sterlings’ closing talk at SXSW. Here is a link to the entirechat transcript [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1apkxAbcaU5Cj9XYcHmwN2S4KBtaQAf1U3qDVXtqSlfk/edit]and a highlight reel of the show via Storify! [http://storify.com/darkheartfelt/tummelvision-episode-100-a] Show links: Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out | Paul Ford | New York Magazine [http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/facebook-and-instagram-when-your-favorite-app-sells-out.html] Adobe Photoshop File Formats Specification | Adobe [http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/] What The Tech Pundits Don’t Get About Facebook’s $1B Instagram Deal | Cliff Kuang | FastCoDesign [http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669483/what-the-tech-pundits-dont-get-about-facebooks-1b-instagram-deal] Heather’s Instagram reaction to Facebook’s acquisition [http://instagr.am/p/JNdkNNK0HP/] Grab Instagrams with GramGrab [http://gramgrab.com/] Reaction Pictures & Emoticons | MyFaceWhen [http://www.myfacewhen.com/] Wikipedia list of Acquisitions by Facebook [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Facebook] Facebook is for Old People | Patrick Moorehead | Techpinions [http://techpinions.com/facebook-is-for-old-people/6363] Instagram’s Buyout: How Does It Measure Up? | Andy Baio | [http://waxy.org/2012/04/instagrams_buyout_how_does_it_measure_up/]Waxy.org [http://Waxy.org] (Wired [http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-baio-instagram-trend/]) An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Bruce Sterling | Wired [http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/] Why the New Aesthetic isn’t about 8bit retro, the Robot Readable World, computer vision and pirates | Rev Dan Cat [http://revdancatt.com/2012/04/07/why-the-new-aesthetic-isnt-about-8bit-retro-the-robot-readable-world-computer-vision-and-pirates/] The New Aesthetic | James Bridle [http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/] the new aesthetic | Aaron Straup Cope SXSW 2012 [http://aaronland.info/talks/sxsw2012/sxsw2012.pdf] Bruce Sterlings closing talk of SXSW 2012 [http://huffduffer.com/markpasc/69474]

Tummelvision 99: Bravo for Silicon Valley – Reality, Bubbles, Glasses and emoting through technology

Heather Gold and Kevin Marks on Tummeling, Bubbles, and how media representations affect how people believe. Full chat transcript available here. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bcu4ojYmr__rQsIuj8ttg4FtrkC3SOHZKwO7dG6CgmY/edit]

Tummelvision 98: Back from hiatus. SXSW, Mike Daisey and sexism in tech

We’re back. Heather, Debs and Kevin talk about the tummeling stories we’ve missed over the last month. Here’s the chat transcript [https://docs.google.com/document/d/18dTQEEVVQTpOt4-cfKz5mVY7TDWgj8RbZBym0MLjLA0/edit] in full Some related links below: SXSW 2012: A decidedly different show –PR attendance up a whopping 30% [http://blog.web.blogads.com/2012/03/10/pr-agency-attendance-up-33-at-sxsw-interactive/#axzz1qYniFfWK] Mike Daisey vs Journalism: Ethan Zuckerman, Director of MIT Center for Civic Media [http://civic.mit.edu/] [Tummelvision guestEpisode 71 [http://tummelvision.tv/2011/07/25/tummelvision-71-ethan-zuckerman/]]on the Mike Daisey Apple in China media vs journalism vs truth [http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2012/03/28/the-passion-of-mike-daisey-journalism-storytelling-and-the-ethics-of-attention/]kerfuffle Sexism in tech – yes, that topic again. Where we are “shocked, shocked to find sexism in tech”. Charles Arthur [https://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charlesarthur ]of The Guardian used storify to brilliantly [http://storify.com/charlesarthur/oh-hai-sexism] summarize the latest uproar

TummelVision 96: David Weinberger on how the Net changes the way we think

David Weinberge [http://evident.com]r [http://evident.com]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 the Room [http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Know-Rethinking-Everywhere/dp/0465021425/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322859961&sr=8-1]. It’s a subtitle almost as big as the Internet itself but it reflects how little concise vocabulary we have (“tummel” anyone?) to reflect the changing reality of the way we’re operating in a more networked world. Often David’s work is explaining things that are realities that any person who is “of the web” or really lives with this midset and trust level knows intrinsically. On some level the Net itself may be doing the same thing for a reality that was always there: everything connected and flowing… all the intelligence you could ever need just right there outside you, but something we weren’t as aware of in the left-brain rational era and culture until we built something that made us *think* about this as we made it. David has all kinds of impressive formal affiliations and qualifications, like being a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/], a Co-Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab [http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/]and being a guy who got a PhD in philosophy and who wrote jokes for a Woody Allen comic strip.  But what’s more impressive to me is that he doesn’t just noodle around abstractly about how life is meaningful, but lives in the moment as an affable guy who cares about connecting and does just that.David’s first book The Cluetrain Manifesto [http://cluetrain.com] was written with a few other savvy cohorts in 2000 (inc. TummelVision 42 [http://tummelvision.tv/2010/11/12/tummelvision-42-doc-searls/] guest Doc Searls) and put into clear language and awareness outside the smallish world of dedicated netizens the way that sharing and conversations work and the way the Net made these things the new picks and shovels of business and any functioning institutional infrastructure. Links discussed in this episode: * Too Big to Know [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/] * How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet [http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html]– Douglas Adams in 1999 * It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? [http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/02/its-not-whether-googles-threatened-its-asking-ourselves-what-commons-do-we-wish-for.php]– John Battelle’s Search Blog * SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals of the Web [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/opinion/sopa-boycotts-and-the-false-ideals-of-the-web.html] – Jaron Lanier at NYTimes.com * If Google predicts your future, will it be a cliché? [http://epeus.blogspot.com/2010/09/if-google-predicts-your-future-will-it.html]– Kevin Marks