Douglas Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo. Richard Metzger has always been my favorite net television maker. From his show Infinity Factory on Pseudo Networks to… Read the rest of the article: Richard Metzger's Dangerous Minds

I'm publishing a lot of essays this week, but enjoy the conversations here more than out on the regular net. So I'll link to them when I think they're appropriate… Read the rest of the article: Why I Left My Publisher in Order to Publish a Book

And speaking of alternative currencies, Bernard Lietaer — the man who introduced a great many of us to the inequities inherent to a monopoly currency system and the great possibilities… Read the rest of the article: Bernard Lietaer's Site Launched

Softskull Press is launching a new series of books called Deep Focus, dedicated to taking some of today's wittiest writers and setting them loose on the cult film classics of… Read the rest of the article: They Live, Again

While mix tapes may no longer involve chromium dioxide passing over magnetic heads, there are still many heads who appreciate the music streams of others, and find them particularly useful… Read the rest of the article: Mix Tape for Good Heads

How superfluid works from Nathan Solomon on Vimeo. I've been researching alternative currency systems for the past decade or so, ever since I became convinced that a 21st Century economy… Read the rest of the article: An Alt Currency that even the IRS Could Love

This just got released at Maker Faire NYC on Sunday: a starter kit for making your own wearable computing, from a new company called Fabrick.it. The kit is broken down… Read the rest of the article: Fabrickit: DIY wearable computing

Douglas Rushkoff, here. Mark graciously invited me to guest blog for the next two weeks, in celebration of the release of my first book explicitly about digital culture, Program or… Read the rest of the article: Greetings Happy Mutants

BabyCastles, the videoarcade in Ridgewood, Queens, is quickly turning into a hub for intersection of the art, technology, and culture of independent gaming. It's a place where you can sample… Read the rest of the article: Where Everybody Knows Your Game

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Life Inc., Coercion, the graphic novel Testament, and many other books. I've written and even taught a whole lot about interactive narrative over the… Read the rest of the article: Rushkoff on writing for a new alternate reality game

(Douglas Rushkoff is a recent Boing Boing guest blogger — below, a previously-planned excerpt from his new book, the last in a series of excerpts which ran during his guest-blogging… Read the rest of the article: Life Inc: a book against corporatism, published by a corporation

Douglas Rushkoff – author of the book Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back – is a guest blogger. I'm posting an excerpt… Read the rest of the article: Life Inc: Everything's Open Source but Money

Douglas Rushkoff was a guest blogger. Thanks for having me aboard these past two weeks, engaging with me so honestly and provocatively, and for quickly scrolling past my posts if… Read the rest of the article: Strange, but Never Strangers

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. I just raced through two novels – not because I had to finish them quickly, but because they moved so quickly. The first, by… Read the rest of the article: Books about (or at least by) weird but interesting people

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. Although I begged them (and they agreed at the time) to change their name from Personal Democracy Forum to Participatory Democracy Forum, the name… Read the rest of the article: Personal Democracy Forum

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. The "Index of Freedom," maintained by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, is the first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their… Read the rest of the article: Personal Freedom, by State

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. This is what I love about the Internet. Two days after we posted Janine Saunders' Life Inc: The Movie, Carlos Boyle – author of… Read the rest of the article: Vida Inc: La Pelicula

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. Nate Dimeo, an NPR reporter, has been creating some fascinating audio at a site he called The Memory Palace. These are highly textured historical… Read the rest of the article: Ben Franklin's DEATH RAY

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. The New York Times reports that MTA city buses are losing the yellow rubber electronic strip in favor of the good ol' pull string… Read the rest of the article: Retrotech: I want my vinyl back, too

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. Robert Anton Wilson is back! On the web, anyway. Congratulations to his crew for getting the new RAW website together even though Bob is… Read the rest of the article: The New RAW website