Guestblogger: Douglas Rushkoff!

Meet our next guestblogger, Douglas Rushkoff. He has been our friend and inspiration for nearly two decades. Douglas has written with and about happy mutants since the great memetic shift of the 1980s. His books include Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred, Get Back in the Box, and the novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy.

He teaches for MaybeLogicAcademy, studies and lectures at Utrecht University, and occasionally plays keyboards for PsychicTV.

His most recent work, Testament, is a retelling of the Torah as a near-future technologically-enacted global financial dictatorship, and has just been released as four graphic novel collections from DC/Vertigo.

Please give a warm welcome to Douglas!

• [hideyourarms]

  Has anyone else noticed that Douglas is wearing a Creative Communism t-shirt (http://www.giantrobotprinting.com/store/shirts/all/ccaero) in the picture?

• [Xeni Jardin]

  Woohooo welcome Doug!

• [frijole]

  Has anyone else noticed that Douglas is wearing a Creative Communism t-shirt (http://www.giantrobotprinting.com/store/shirts/all/ccaero) in the picture?

  heh, I just logged in to post:

  “w00t, he even likes my shirt!”

• [Anonymous]

  To be pedantic: It’s not PsychicTV that he plays keyboards in, but PTV3, the third incarnation of PsychicTv.

• [Evil Paul]

  Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

  Media Virus would have to be my most re-read non-fiction book.

  I might go read it now …

• [ill lich]

  Let the world know.

• [chris23]

  Awesome! Welcome, Douglas. Props, kudos, and cheers to all involved in making this happen.

  Now about that Twitter account…

• [Justin Ried]

  Absolutely, positively, completely stoked! Welcome, Douglas!

• [frankiez]

  Ww!! Wh s nxt gst blggr? bm?

• [kuanes]

  will douglas be giving tips on how to appear brooding in photographs taken in a morgue?

  sorry, couldn’t resist.

  looking forward to reading your posts, douglas…especially anything about PsychicTV!

• [simplewonder]

  #20 I concur – it’s about damned time!!

• [hassan-i-sabbah]

  Wow! I didn’t know you played for PTV! Time to dish the dirt.Doug!;)

• [raisinlove]

  Don’t forget his first graphic novel Club Zero G!

• [Santa’s Knee]

  Welcome aboard.

• [Morph]

  Good to see you as guestblogger, fellow Doug! FYI, we’re moving the prose+comics scrapbook novel format and tool kit to the social network world –Facebook’s the first– with the new still under development version of Comicater (the community that hosts the first prose+comics scrapbook novel,http://TheConcreteJungleBook.com — you saw an early version last year) at http://apps.new.facebook.com/comicater/ (an external app we continue to integrate with Facebook).

• [Drew Blood]

  Excellent! Just started reading Testament yesterday.

• [Morph]

  Another resume addition: columnist for Blaster magazine, back in the (1994) day, the first lifestyle magazine for screenagers who were then adopting the interactive multimedia online lifestyle, produced by the same crew that did the magazine for interactive multimedia designers & developers, http://MorphsOutpostOnTheDigitalFrontier.com

• [sammich]

  kuanes @ 2 – ‘will douglas be giving tips on how to appear brooding in photographs taken in a morgue?’

  I think that perhaps he’s been ~given~ guidance on how to look brooding standing next to a fridge from this bloke…

  http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/12/cops-break-into-wron.html

• [upso]

  whoa! killer! nice job BB

• [minTphresh]

  welcome to bong bing, mr. rushkoff! am looking forward to reading your posts. beware the sockpuppets…

• [aldasin]

  That’ll class the place up a bit.
  Crtnly nc cntrst t th n wth th xtpd nm.

• [jphilby]

  IT’S ABOUT TIME!!

• [Morph]

  My apologies to all BoingBoing readers for using this Comment thread to mention some other projects I’m working on. I meant no harm, and the Web resources I pointed to are free, but I understand that I’ve gone out of bounds here, and will refrain from future comments.