Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Interview Starts at 17:33

Remember we were going to write in our underwear from our homes and do what we wanted and and slack? And then it slowly but surely turned into this kind of poster child for the NASDAQ stock exchange, this way of monitoring people’s employees, making sure–instead of us working in our own time–we’re always on, all the time in real-time availability. Which is the opposite, right? So instead of being smarter online because we’ve gone offline to write stuff and post it, we’re stupid online, because we’re trying to keep up with things in the moment. ”Oh, there’s this post at 8:20; I’ve got to post by 8:31 or the Twitter feed’s going to be gone without me.” And that’s just not taking advantage of what this digital age could be about.

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Show Notes and Links:

News

“The deal Goodreads should’ve struck (hint: it wasn’t with Amazon)” by Craig Mod at PaidContent – March 30, 2013

“BusinessWeek’s billion-dollar boo-boo” by Ryan Chittum at Columbia Journalism Review – March 29, 2013

“Why Didn’t Someone Else Buy Goodreads Before Amazon?” by James McQuivey of Forrester Research – March 29, 2013

Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation by James McQuivey – $5.35 on Kindle

“Amazon purchase of Goodreads stuns book industry” by Alison Flood at The Guardian – April 2, 2013

“The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!” by Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books

Digital Public Library of America

Tech Tip

Beware of ReDigi!

Kindle Direct Publishing

Interview with Douglas Rushkoff recorded on April 1, 2013

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff – $12.99 on Kindle

Brian Lehrer’s interview with Rushkoff – March 20, 2013

Proceedings (PDF download) of the Unified Field Summit on Art, Science and Spirituality (2002) moderated by Douglas Rushkoff and hosted by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) at the Aspen Institute

Content

Clutter Rehab: 101 Tips and Tricks to Become an Organization Junkie and Love It! By Laura Wittman – $9.39 on Kindle

Home Organization For Stress Free Living: How To Organize Your Home One Day At A Time And Keep It That Way By Karen Pettine – $2.99 on Kindle

The Busy Mom’s Guide To Stress Free Organization: How To Organize, Clean, And Keep Your Home Stress Free By Brian Night – $2.99 on Kindle

Free “Spring Cleaning apps” for Kindle Fire: Evernote, BillMinder, Grocery IQ, and Remember The Milk

Wait for You by J. Lynn – $2.99 on Kindle

Lesterland:The corruption of Congress and How to End It by Lawrence Lessig – $2.99 on Kindle

Lessig’s TED talk on Lesterland

Rootstrikers.org

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD.

Next Week’s Guest

Otis Chandler, founder and CEO of Goodreads

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