Desert island online do-gooders?
October 12, 2005 9:56 AM Subscribe
Who are some pro-social, smart, online/new media-visionary types?
I know this is a bit vague, but the request I'm trying to address is pretty vague as well. Looking for a list of people we might want to talk to in the online and/or new media space that have a strong "pro-social" (their word, not mine) bent. I'm suggesting people like Larry Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, and even Steven Johnson, though he's not ideal in my mind. So I think we have the IP warrior side of it covered, anything else that comes to mind? NYC area a bonus!
I know this is a bit vague, but the request I'm trying to address is pretty vague as well. Looking for a list of people we might want to talk to in the online and/or new media space that have a strong "pro-social" (their word, not mine) bent. I'm suggesting people like Larry Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, and even Steven Johnson, though he's not ideal in my mind. So I think we have the IP warrior side of it covered, anything else that comes to mind? NYC area a bonus!
Andrew Odlyzko is worth paying attention to.
Jeff Vail, might be up your alley, too.
Cory is a GOOD speaker, whatever you may think of his novels or BoingBoing.
Check out the guest list at Long Now or Edge, maybe?
posted by sonofsamiam at 10:12 AM on October 12, 2005
Jeff Vail, might be up your alley, too.
Cory is a GOOD speaker, whatever you may think of his novels or BoingBoing.
Check out the guest list at Long Now or Edge, maybe?
posted by sonofsamiam at 10:12 AM on October 12, 2005
I subscribe to John Thackara's "Doors of Perception" mailing list...and have been (slowly) getting through his recent book, In The Bubble (Designing In A Complex World).
Cory Doctorow is a good speaker...i'll third that. You can listen to some of his talks at IT Conversations...
posted by tpl1212 at 10:46 AM on October 12, 2005
Cory Doctorow is a good speaker...i'll third that. You can listen to some of his talks at IT Conversations...
posted by tpl1212 at 10:46 AM on October 12, 2005
Rachel Maddow of Air America. Her show is live every morning from NYC at 5 a.m. (Fortunately, it's listenable all day, too.) She's intelligent (a Rhodes scholar), articulate and thinks well on her feet.
posted by Carol Anne at 11:17 AM on October 12, 2005
posted by Carol Anne at 11:17 AM on October 12, 2005
Cory Doctorow is excellent. So is Dick Hardt of sxip.
OTOH, Xeni Jardin's media savvy has everything to do with her ability to stick herself in front the the camera and scream "Look at me, I'm an attention whore!".
posted by Kickstart70 at 12:47 PM on October 12, 2005
OTOH, Xeni Jardin's media savvy has everything to do with her ability to stick herself in front the the camera and scream "Look at me, I'm an attention whore!".
posted by Kickstart70 at 12:47 PM on October 12, 2005
Charles Bazerman (UC-Santa Barbara), Jessica Litman (Wayne State U. [Detroit]), Jim Porter Michigan State University (and member of EFF), Martha Woodmansee (Case Western Reserve); none of whom are attention whores. All of whom spoke recently (along with Lessig and Vaidhyanathan) at the Originality, Imitation, Plagiarism: Conference on Writing
posted by beelzbubba at 9:32 AM on October 13, 2005
posted by beelzbubba at 9:32 AM on October 13, 2005
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posted by arco at 10:09 AM on October 12, 2005