Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Frauenfelder

Dale Dougherty discusses the launch and evolution of Make: Magazine, a DIY technology publication, since its inception in February 2005.  The conversation includes insights from original team members Mark Frauenfelder, Dave Albertson, Shawn Connolly, and Paul Spinrad, as well as current editor-in-chief Keith Hammond. The magazine, launched amidst a declining print industry, aimed to share project instructions and inspire readers to engage in DIY activities. The first issue showcased a kite aerial photography project by Cris Benton, exemplifying ingenious solutions like using popsicle sticks and a Silly Putty Viscous Timer.  They reminisced about early decision-making, the importance of design, challenges in documenting projects, and how the community's growth influenced by Maker Faires. The script highlights the magazine's impact on the maker movement, transitioning into various mediums and reflecting on personal anecdotes from team members over the years. The call ends with updates on their current pursuits and the lasting significance of Make: Magazine.https://make.co/make-cast/

Kevin Sorbo claims being a Christian stifles his career, despite Tom Hanks thriving with the same faithBoing Boing.net, Mark Frauenfelder, August 21, 2023 https://boingboing.net/2023/08/21/kevin-sorbo-claims-being-a-christian-stifles-his-career-despite-tom-hanks-thriving-with-the-same-faith.html The Non-Prophets, Episode 22.35.4 featuring Helen Green, Timothy Bethel, Jimmy Jr. and Raphael RyanKevin Sorbo says he is being persecuted, he claims Hollywood has blacklisted him for his politics and because he's a Christian.He turned his back on Hollywood went off in a different direction, into his niche. Now he wants to come back but the problem is he just really didn't bring any talent with him.Tom Hanks is a Christian, he has been very successful in Hollywood. However, he doesn't tweet asinine things like why do we still have monkeys If evolution is real? This is something that Kevin Sorbo has actually tweeted. He called the capital rioters patriots and at the same time implied they were really antifa.The movies he's in seem like the kind of movies that he would want to be anyway. Left Behind rise of the Antichrist. He was in God's Not Dead, which made 62 million dollars on a two million dollar budget. Wikipedia shows he's been in 24 films since 2015.Christians read parts of the Bible and can get a persecution complex, and that's what we're seeing on display here. They read certain passages and come away thinking they're doing it right if they're being persecuted.It's not that he is a Christian that's preventing him from having success in Hollywood, it's that he advertise idiotic and factually incorrect opinions every two seconds to anyone who'll listen.He's like the kid in school that purposely tries to agitate everyone and then acts shocked when no one likes him. Kevin Sorbo's Twitter or X is an endless waterfall of brain dead takes without any nuance or critical thought.Actions have consequences, people like Kevin should stop pretending their actions shouldn't have consequences.Just a loud mouth who people pay attention to because he was in a moderately entertaining TV show 20 years ago. An attention hog with a persecution mindset. You're 62 years old and you're acting like a four-year-old.#kevinsorbo #christianfilm #faithbased #hercules

Nicole and I talk about making your day more better with a few tips from the book Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind. We learned of this book and the highlights thanks to Mark Frauenfelder of the newsletter Book Freak. Patreon info: https://www.patreon.com/gardenfork RadPower e-bike affiliate link https://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=ml&ti=843269&pw=131043  Master Class Info  https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=797461&u=1026336&m=62509&urllink=&afftrack= Start your Amazon shopping here: https://amazon.com/shop/gardenfork My Stationary Bike https://amzn.to/3z0XQFN HASfit Exercise YouTube channel is my fav https://www.youtube.com/hasfit GardenFork receives compensation when you use our affiliate links. This is how we pay the bills ;) GF Sweaters and T Shirts https://teespring.com/stores/gardenfork-2 Email me: radio@gardenfork.tv Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/gardenfork GardenFork's Facebook Discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1692616594342396/ Produced by Sean O'Neil http://seaninbrooklyn.com/ GardenFork Radio is produced by GardenFork Media LLC in Brooklyn, NY
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Author of Dark Sky, Book 21 in the Joe Pickett series Photo by Dave Neligh Interview starts at 19:40 and ends at 43:22 Note: I will be discussing my C. J. Box interview Saturday March 6, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I've also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links President Biden's video on union election in Alabama Amazon EU blog on Working at Amazon “When Amazon Raises Its Minimum Wage, Local Companies Follow Suit” by Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley at The New York Times - March 5, 2021 All-new Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation) Eink.link “Eink.link is a website directory for e-readers” by Mark Frauenfelder at boingboing - March 2, 2021 “How New E Ink Tablets Combine the Best of Kindles and iPads” by Alex Cranz at The Wall Street Journal - March 3, 2021 C.J. Box's website C.J. Box livestream recording at The Tattered Cover bookstore - March 4, 20212 Obituary of Doug Crowe in the Casper Star-Tribune - December 4, 2020 “Big Sky” TV series on ABC, based on The Highway by C. J. Box Bob Budd, executive director of the Wyoming Wildlife & Natural Resource Trust Next Week's Guest: Friday, March 12: Chris Bailey, author and narrator of How to Train Your Mind, an Audible Original Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what's my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

This week we're learning about the tools and tech we need to upgrade our lives in 2021. Helping us are Mark Frauenfelder and Kevin Kelly—hosts of the Cool Tools podcast and the Cool Tools blog. Listen to hear Mark and Kevin's recommendations for what to get for the best work from home experience, their favorite new tech from 2020, and what they expect the future of work to look like post-pandemic.Have an idea for a future episode? Call us at 347-687-8109 and leave a voicemail, or write to us at upgrade@lifehacker.com. We want to hear from you!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mark Frauenfelder, Research Director of Institute for the Future, discusses his life as editor, blogger, maker, and influencer. Mark has been a vital part of the mainstreaming of the Internet.…

Key Takeaways From This Episode:Have a concise answer for the question"what do you do?"Some people do best jumping from thing to thing, and that's okay.Some people do best focusing on one thing until they master it, and that's okay, too."For better or for worse, I am really interested in a lot of different things, and trying things out myself to see what it's like to actually experience producing media or other things is always interesting." - Mark FrauenfelderAction Items:What is the best for you? Are you the type of person who wants to focus on one thing and be the best of the best of the best? Or are you the type of person who is like me and wants to learn a little bit of everything and not master anything, but just be able to throw something together just because we enjoy working in so many different types of media?Resources Mentioned in This Episode:NoAlarmsClub.comReal Artists Don't Starve by Jeff GoinsOnlineBusiness.ONEBoing BoingWired MagazineMakeCyberpunk by Billy IdolmegabyteGhostOperation Safe Escape

Mark Frauenfelder is a maker, an editor, writer, illustrator, and public speaker. He was the founding editor at Wired.com, his collaborative weblog Boing Boing, as well as the Make Magazine. His work was discovered by Billy Idol, who consulted Frauenfelder for his Cyberpunk album. He is also an author of 7 books, and currently works at the Institute for the Future as a Research Director. I had an amazing time talking to Mark, our time together absolutely flew by, as we were talking about creating, making and manufacturing, the Internet, Social Media and his creations. Enjoy!

Everyone has heard the classic trope write what you love. In some cases, I have felt a bit bullied by this concept. "How am I supposed to know what I love most?" I have wondered. I think the best thing you can do to figure this out is to listen to this conversation with Mark Frauenfelder and listen to how he followed what was fascinating to him and wrote books and articles about these things along the way. In this conversation we talk about the day job that Mark escaped to write and it is the worst day job for a writer I have yet heard of. In addition, learn about how Boing Boing was founded. The original office space for the zine version sounds like my version of heaven and I'm sure it will to you, too. Above all, Mark is an incredible role model for making a living from curiosity, enthusiasm, and being willing to dive into a world you don't entirely know yet. His fascination with a variety of topics and being willing to write about them just because he loves learning is both infectious and a great example to the rest of us. If we follow his lead, I think we are in for a lot of amazing books to hit digital and physical shelves very soon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writers Mark and Carla share the dramatic ups and downs of selling all their belongings and moving to the Pacific island of Rarotonga with their young children and ultimately failing to make it work. Follow Mark at: https://twitter.com/Frauenfelder Follow Carla at: https://twitter.com/Carla_Sinclair www.theotherfwordpodcast.com  

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with Joel Murphy, co-founder ofOpenBCI, about the implications of low cost, open-source brain-computer interfaces.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with inventor and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with Murray Robinson, founder of Molquant, about new tools designed to make sense of the big data within the human genome.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with evolutionary biologist Tamsin Woolley-Barker, author of Teeming: How Superorganisms work to Build Infinite Wealth in a Finite World, about what insects and fungi can teach us about politics, successful organizations, and the dilemmas of decision-making.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with neuroscientist and IFTF fellow Melina Uncapher, CEO and co-founder of the Institute for Applied Neuroscience that brings scientific research about our brains to critical social issues.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with chemist Kendra Kuhl, CEO of Opus 12, about her technology for recycling carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with rogue biophysicist Josiah Zayner about affordable tools for DIY genetic engineering and how to hack your biome.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with University of Southern California roboticist Nora Ayanian about what robots can learn from humans working together, and vice versa.

Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with UC Berkeley computer scientist and artist Eric Paulos< about wild ideas for wearable technologies, from sensor-laden temporary tattoos to fingernail display screens.

Shaun Usher joins me to talk about beautiful notes and letters penned by authors such as Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Seuss, Jane Austen, Mozart, Beatrix Potter, and more! An entirely new set of letters to observe and explore, for a fun new conversation about the art of letter writing, our communication styles, and how we can dwell in the past in our digital future. ABOUT SHAUN USHER AND LETTERS OF NOTE "A fascinating blog..." - Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic "...a fantastic blog..." - Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing "The internet's cultural magpie" - GQ Magazine "Fantastic idea [...] and well done too" - Jason Kottke, kottke.org "...a wonderful collection..." - Scott Beale, Laughing Squid Welcome. Letters of Note is a blog-based archive of fascinating correspondence, complete with scans and transcripts of the original missives where available. I have a seemingly endless supply of correspondence to plough through, but your input is always welcome. Get in touch via shaun@lettersofnote.com. If you wish to send images, please forward high quality versions where possible, don't attempt to compress them to the point of illegibility, and please don't crop them to death. If you happen to have an original you wish to post to me using regular mail, let me know via email. If you already know it's fake, don't send it. You have four choices when it comes to receiving updates — RSS, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr — and unless my fingers crumble away, there will be at least one new post every weekday. I predict you will also enjoy visiting Letterheady, another blog I run which is dedicated to showcasing interesting letterheads — it's like Letters of Note, but with less reading — and Lists of Note, which, predictably, features notable lists. Please note that whenever I link to a book on Amazon (typically when highlighting the source of a particular letter) I use an affiliate link — this essentially means that, should you click that link and then purchase said book, I receive, from Amazon, a small percentage of the book's price. If you have any more questions, please get in touch. Yours, Shaun Usher

A discussion with Rod Falcon, Director of the Technology Horizons Program at Institute for the Future. In his 1854 book, Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Men have become the tools of their tools.” Thoreau's assertion is as valid today as it was when he made it over one hundred and sixty years ago. Whenever we shape technology, it shapes us, both as individuals and as a society. We created cars, and cars turned us into motorists, auto mechanics, and commuters. Over the centuries we’ve populated our world with machines that help us do things we can't or don't want to do ourselves. Our world has become so saturated with machines that they’ve faded into the background. We hardly notice them. We are reaching a new threshold. Our machines are getting networked, and enabling new forms of human machine symbiosis. We're entering a new era where fifty billion machines are in constant communication, automating and orchestrating the movement and interactions among individuals, organizations, and cities. Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a non-profit think tank in Silicon Valley, that helps organizations and the public think about long term future plans to make better decisions in the present. In this episode of the IFTF podcast, Mark Frauenfelder, a research director at IFTF interviewed Rod Falcon, IFTF's Director of the Technology Horizons Program, which combines a deep understanding of technology and societal forces, to identify and evaluate these discontinuities and innovations in the near future. Rod discussed Tech Horizon's recent research into how machine automation is becoming an integrated, embedded, and ultimately invisible part of virtually every aspect of our lives.

New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly, stopped by the show to chat with me about his journey from travel journalist to famed futurist. Mr. Kelly’s storied and winding career has taken him around the world in search of visions of the new digital frontier. Kevin is a renowned TED speaker and author of multiple bestsellers including his latest, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, a title that offers an optimistic roadmap of how new technologies will shape humanity. Dubbed “the Most Interesting Man in the World” by Tim Ferris, Mr. Kelly began writing on the internet near its inception and never looked back. He has taken gigs including Editor for the Whole Earth Review, and presently Senior Maverick at Wired magazine, a magazine he co-founded in 1993, and where he served as Executive Editor until 1999. Join us for this two-part interview, and if you’re a fan of the show, please click “subscribe” to automatically see new interviews, and help other writers find us. In Part One of the file Kevin Kelly and I discuss: How an Amateur Photographer Became a Bestselling Author and Digital Visionary The Future of Artificial Intelligence How a Technologist Keeps His Finger on the Pulse of the Future Why You Should Write to Understand Your Ideas The Importance of the Incubation Phase for Writers Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes How Wired Magazine s Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly Writes: Part Two Kevin Kelly’s Personal Website The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future – Kevin Kelly 1,000 True Fans Cool Tools Website Kevin Kelly on Google+ Kevin Kelly on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Wired Magazine’s Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly Writes: Part One Jerod Morris: Hey, Jerod Morris here. If you know anything about Rainmaker Digital and Copyblogger, you may know that we produce incredible live events. Some would say that we produce incredible live events as an excuse to throw great parties, but that’s another story. We’ve got another one coming up this October in Denver, it’s called Digital Commerce Summit. It is entirely focused on giving you the smartest ways to create and sell digital products and services. You can find out more and get a killer early bird price on your tickets at Rainmaker.FM/summit. That’s Rainmaker.FM/summit. We’ll be talking about Digital Commerce Summit in more detail as it gets closer, but for now I’d like to let a few attendees from our past events speak for us. Attendee 1: For me, it’s just hearing from the experts. This is my first industry event, so it’s awesome to learn new stuff and also get confirmation that we’re not doing it completely wrong where I work. Attendee 2: The best part of the conference, for me, is being able to mingle with people and realize that you have connections with everyone here. It feels like LinkedIn live. I also love the parties after each day, being able to talk to the speakers, talk to other people who are here for the first time, people who’ve been here before. Attendee 3: I think the best part of the conference, for me, is understanding how I can service my customers a little more easily. Seeing all the different facets and components of various enterprises then helps me pick the best tools. Jerod Morris: Hey, we agree. One of the biggest reasons we host the conference every year is so that we can learn how to service our customers — people like you — more easily. Here are just a few more words from folks who have come to our past live events. Attendee 4: It’s really fun. I think it’s a great mix of beginner information and advanced information. I’m really learning a lot and having a lot of fun. Attendee 5: The conference is great, especially because it’s a single-track conference where you don’t get distracted by “Which session should I go to?” And, “Am I missing something?” Attendee 6: The training and everything — the speakers have been awesome — but I think the coolest aspect for me has been connecting with both people who are putting it on and then the other attendees. Jerod Morris: That’s it for now. There’s a lot more to come on Digital Commerce Summit. I really hope to see you there in October. Again, to get all the details and the very best deal on tickets, head over to Rainmaker.FM/summit. That’s Rainmaker.FM/summit. Kelton Reid: These are the Writer Files, a tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of working writers from online content creators to fictionists, journalists, entrepreneurs, then beyond. I’m your host, Kelton Reid. Writer, podcaster, and mediaphile. Each week we’ll discover how great writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block. New York Times best-selling author and co-founder of Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly, stopped by the show to chat with me this week about his journey from travel journalist to famed futurist. Mr. Kelly’s storied and winding career has taken him around the world in search of visions of the new digital frontier. Kevin’s a renowned TED speaker and author of multiple bestsellers, including his latest, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. It’s a title that offers an optimistic roadmap of how new technologies will shape humanity. Dubbed “The Most Interesting Man of the World” by Tim Ferriss, Mr. Kelly began writing on the Internet near its inception and never looked back, taking gigs including editor for the Whole Earth Review, and presently senior maverick at Wired Magazine, a magazine that he co-founded in 1993 and where he served as its executive editor until 1999. Join us for this two-part interview. If you’re a fan of the show, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews and to help other writers find us. In part one of this file, Kevin and I discuss how an amateur photographer became a best-selling author and digital visionary, the future of artificial intelligence, how a technologist keeps his finger on the pulse of the future, why you should write to understand your ideas, and the importance of the incubation phase for writers. All right. We are rolling with a very special guest on the podcast today, Mr. Kevin Kelly. Thank you so much for dropping by to talk to us about your process as a writer. Kevin Kelly: It’s my pleasure and privilege. Thanks for having me. Kelton Reid: I understand you’re doing the rounds. You’re just out there and talking about this fantastic new book, The Inevitable. Kevin Kelly: Actually, I’m more like the sun in the center, because the way we’re doing podcasts is I’m here sitting at my studio and everyone’s coming to me. Kelton Reid: Yeah, it’s got to be nice to not have to travel — at least for this part of the journey. Kevin Kelly: Yeah. It’s the future, man. Kelton Reid: Let’s talk a little bit about that. I want to just mention that you are having quite a bit of success so far with the new one. It is titled The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our World. It’s good stuff. It’s heady, but it’s already hitting New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-sellers lists. How an Amateur Photographer Became a Bestselling Author and Digital Visionary Kelton Reid: You’ve written a lot of other stuff — you’re an author — many, many books. You’ve been a travel journalist, I understand. An editor of a handful of important publications including The Whole Earth Review way back and Co-Founder and now Senior Maverick of Wired Magazine. That’s pretty cool. Lots of other stuff in between. I want to talk a little bit about your origins and how you went from those early days of maybe not knowing you were going to be a writer, to today being a best-selling author. Kevin Kelly: Yeah, I definitely did not identify or even dream of being a writer. That was not something that I was aiming for. I actually started off as a photographer. I still think very visually in those terms. I came to writing, actually, online. I’d learned to write online on the very early bulletin boards in the early ’80s. I discovered that I had a telegraphic style that was very suited for online discourse. I was not attempting to write. I was just attempting to communicate — just email or postings. We would now think of them as comments, blog postings, that kind of stuff. That’s where I started. I wasn’t even thinking of it as writing then. It was just communicating. My natural instincts are not actually in writing, but more in editing. Not the line editing and copyediting, but more editing in terms of packaging ideas. Particularly packaging ideas that had a visual component — a diagram, picture, charts — graphic design of the whole thing. That led me to magazines where I am now. I was magazine junkie growing up as a kid, in part because my dad actually worked for Time Life company. Kelton Reid: Cool. Kevin Kelly: Every week he brought home — every Monday he brought home this stack of magazines. I have been reading Time and Fortune Magazine since I was the age of 10. All the others at that time — the suite included Sports Illustrated, Money Magazine, Life Magazine — I read them all. I loved them. I thought in those terms, and later started working on magazines. Not so much in the writing department, but more in the editing or what we might call these days curation. I was curating articles. I wrote out of desperation, basically. The short answer is I would try and make assignments. Try to get other people to write. Have ideas and have other people try to write them. I would go through and ideas that I tried to get other people to write for years and then kept coming back as something that no one wanted to do. I would try to kill off the idea in my own mind, but it’d come back. I couldn’t get someone to write it. Those are the ideas that I couldn’t give away that I would eventually end up writing myself. There are two lessons in that. One was I realized that I could write if I had to. Secondly, the pieces that I did write that way were the best ones because no one else could write them. There was this discovery that what I really want to do was to do things that only I could do. Part of that process — which I still adhere to today — is to talk about what I’m thinking about doing. To talk about what I am doing in the hopes of someone else either stealing the idea and doing it before me or else tell me that they’re already working on it or that it has already been done, which is always a great relief. I don’t really want to have to do it. I only want to do stuff that no one else can do. Kelton Reid: Cool, yeah. I like that a lot. You just had this very interesting circuitous route to where you are today. You’re a world traveler and a TED speaker and a digital visionary, I guess would be one term to use. Where can listeners find the bulk of your writing out there? I know there’s a lot. Kevin Kelly: Yeah, I have a website and a early domain name. It’s my initials, kk.org. I post most of the stuff there. For instance, a lot of this book and a lot of my previous book was first written as blog posts and then rewritten for the book. There’s a lot of stuff there on the website that has not been published elsewhere, like “1,000 True Fans,” which people still enjoy. There’s that. There’s a link to the other site that I’m still active with with Mark Frauenfelder, the founder of Boing Boing, who has actually worked with me at Wired. We run Cool Tools, which is a site that recommends and reviews one cool tool — in the broader sense of something handy — every weekday for the past 13, no 16 years, something crazy. Kelton Reid: Yeah, I love that site. Kevin Kelly: There’s other stuff there. I did a graphic novel with a bunch of people from Pixar and ILN. We spent 11 years on it. It’s this massive, immense 500-page, oversize book that’s about angels and robots and trying to say what would happen if robots had souls. I have a site that reviews the best documentaries. I have my photography site, which is probably closest to my heart because it’s a total compulsion. There’s no reason why I should be spending so much time still, today, in Asia photographing the disappearing traditions. I do it because I have to. All those kinds of things are there. Books, my translations of the various editions are also available, probably other stuff I’m forgetting about right now. Oh yes, Street Use was another blog I ran. I haven’t updated it forever. I was collecting the ways in which people would make homegrown adaptations or modifications to technology, like weird vehicles in China — just odd things. How they made technology in prison. There was really cool stuff that I just neglected because of doing other stuff. That’s actually pertinent to this book, The Inevitable. Part of what I look at in trying to see where our technology is going, is looking at where it is evolving unsupervised. If you want to see the true behavior of something, look at it where they’re not being supervised. You can see what’s really happening. Technology being misused, abused, or unsupervised — like with outlaws, or the kids, or the street — is one way that I use to see where it wants to go to. Where it’s tending to go to beyond what the inventors think it should do. The street use, the street technology — as Bill Gibson says, “The street has its own use.” I think that’s, to me, a very valuable place to look to see what technology wants. Kelton Reid: Yeah, I’ve heard you talk about slang as being a marker for that as well. I think you’re kind of a word nerd as well. I know in the opening of What Technology Wants you talk about the origins of the word, technology, which I thought was cool — dating back to Aristotle’s rhetoric. Kevin Kelly: It actually was a word, by the way, that was not really used and re-made in the 1820’s, or something. It had been neglected for all that time. It took us a long time to even recognize technology in our lives, which seems strange to us now. That’s how things happen. The Future of Artificial Intelligence Kevin Kelly: I know that, to me, one of the big things coming — I mean big on the level like the invention of printing, industrial revolution big — is the artificial intelligence stuff that’s coming. We’re going to look back and realize that we were so ignorant about intelligence. Intelligence is not a single thing. We’ll realize that there’s all these different varieties, nodes, styles, species of thinking. Right now we use one word when we talk about intelligence. We’re actually meaning probably 5, or 6, or 10, or 1,000 different things. We lack the conceptual tools, the data, the vocabulary to talk about it in any other level of precision right now. I would expect in 20 years from now that we’ll be much better informed. We’ll have a whole new lingo for talking about the varieties of smartness. Kelton Reid: Yeah. You get into that in your book. You talk about cognifying. In layman’s terms, that’s the AI piece. Is that right? Kevin Kelly: Correct. It’s my coinage. Cognifying is making things smarter. It’s because we don’t have other good English words for that. We don’t call it smartifying, or smarting, or something. I use cognifying to make smarter. Kelton Reid: I wish we did use smartifying. Kevin Kelly: Yeah, exactly. Kelton Reid: I think that would be a good domain. Someone needs to pick that up now. What are you working on now? Are you working on a book about AI — it sounds like that’s where most of your interest lies at the moment — or are you working on something different? Kevin Kelly: I’m not on AI. That’s a full-time beat for somebody. There are increasing numbers of people … I’ll answer the question, but there is a nice aside — I make the analogy in the book of the way that artificial energy was distributed on a grid of electricity to everybody, all their homes, factories, farmsteads. Anybody could purchase electricity, artificial power, and you’d have this industrial revolution where you take X and add electricity and you’d have an electric pump. So you’d take a manual pump and make electric. You’d have a electric pump. You’d multiply that by thousands of times. You’d have the industrial revolution. Now we’re going to we’re going to do the same thing with AI, artificial smartness, which will be sold over a grid called a cloud. Anybody who wanted to buy AI will buy it like they would buy electricity off of the grid as a commodity utility. You would apply the AI that you buy to anything, any X. You would take the electric pump and then you would cognify it. Everything that we electrified, we would cognify. What was interesting — it was hundreds of years ago when electricity was coming onto the grid. It was so complicated and dangerous and mysterious, that they had Vice Presidents of Electricity in companies, the person in charge of electrifying things. I think we’re going to have VPs of AI, VPs of machine learning, whatever it is, for the foreseeable future until it becomes boring and standard and then we’ll drop it. There will this period where there’ll be specialists in bringing AI to it, just like we had VPs of electricity. Now I’ve forgotten what your question was. Kelton Reid: What’s your most recent project? Kevin Kelly: The next thing I’m working on with my assistant researcher, Camille, we are putting together, collecting — she’s mostly doing the collecting of all the existing long-term forecasts in all the different domains, from energy, transportation, food, sports, furnishings, whatever it is. We’re looking at anybody who’s producing a long-term forecast. My intention is to integrate those into cohesive, plausible future for, say, 2050 or something about then. To build a world based on these official forecasts, which are generally always wrong. The idea is that, like a lot of complex systems, you can take a lot of unreliable parts and you make something reliable. The magic of complex systems is that you can make things more reliable than the parts. Literally, the old saw about the sum being greater that the parts is actually true. Neurons and brains are that way. They’re much more, as a whole, reliable than the individual parts are. Bee hives and other kinds of things exhibit the same kind of a phenomena. The idea is if we took these forecasts — which independently are not very reliable — but can somehow integrate them into a system so that they’re informing each other, that there might be a way to make it more reliable and useful. The idea is to try to make a comprehensive scenario of the future that might prove useful to people in some capacity. It’s an experiment. It could fail. That’s the beauty of it. That’s what we’re working on right now. How a Technologist Keeps His Finger on the Pulse of the Future Kelton Reid: Sounds really cool. It sounds like a lot data. You have a researcher it sounds like. I would like to dig into your productivity a little bit and the writing process itself. It sounds like you revealed that you’re getting a lot of the number crunching and the research done. You have someone helping you do that. There’s still probably quite a bit that you have to crunch down yourself, or turn over in your mind and remix, etc. Are you spending a certain amount of time just reading every day? Kevin Kelly: I try to. As I said, I’m a magazine junkie. My tendency is to read magazines, and journals, and some papers. I would like to read more books. I’m surrounded by a two-story library right now. I would like to dedicate more of my time to reading books. What happens is that there’s so many magazine articles to read. They seem to be a little bit more current and faster paced so they tend to push out my book reading time. I listen to a lot of books on tape, but most of that — or at least half of that — is fiction. That’s how I get my fiction done. That even has been somewhat eroded by my interest in podcasts. A lot of the audible book time is now going to podcasts, which I also am a big fan of. I do spend a lot of time reading. That’s one of my privileges and blessings, that I do have the ability to make time for that. That’s an extremely important part of my day. The input is reading papers and articles. The other thing is trying to talk to people on the phone, which is, to me, the second most important way I get what I get, which is actually in conversation. People just tell you things. It’s a very high signal to noise ratio of input. It’s high quality. Generally, people can be more direct in what they tell you. The conversation can guide to the kind of information I’m looking for very fast. It’s a very effective way to learn something. Kelton Reid: Yeah, that’s cool. It sounds like you’ve got a system down that’s helping you keep your finger on the pulse. Before you launch into a bigger project, do you have to psych yourself up to sit down to write? Are you going through periods of where you’re just putting input and then you spit out a big chunk of a book? How do you crack your knuckles and get going then? Why You Should Write to Understand Your Ideas Kevin Kelly: I have had different phases. As I said, I don’t think of myself as a writer. I don’t feel like I have to write every day, on a normal day I do the email thing. I write to figure out what I’m thinking. When I have that problem of trying to do that, then I will start writing and I’ll commit to a writing period until I’m done. Then, I’m writing a lot. I try to do whatever it is — 500 words or something — just to get stuff down. For me, the killer thing is that first draft. That’s the hardest thing for me to do. When I was doing the last two books, I basically was trying to write and post something every day as a incentive. I didn’t always make it, but I did a lot in that period. Both of the last two books came from that writing — the early parts of it. When I’m doing a big piece for Wired — which I do about one a year — there it’s a lot of research and a lot of interviews. A lot of reading, calling, trying to talk to people. I’m making notes and I’m writing up notes, which I will then go through to extract out stuff. That’s the several-step process where I’m heavily, intensively doing the research. Camille’s doing other research. I’m like, “Find me this. What about that? There must be some paper on this. How about this question?” That’s all coming together and I’m trying to process it. I’m writing there — mostly notes, things I don’t want to forget. The hard part of trying to have an idea generally comes out where I try to write down stuff in order to have an idea. I don’t have an idea and then try and write it. I write it to have an idea. The Importance of the Incubation Phase for Writers Kevin Kelly: That means writing stuff that’s not going to be used, but I have to go through that process. That’s painful. I call it painful because when I’m writing it usually isn’t very good. I know that I’m not saying anything new. It’s painful in the sense that it feels like I’m inadequate. It feels like I’m not doing anything. It’s the usual kinds of fears that artists have, which is, “I’m not very good at this.” It takes persevering through that where you begin to — for me anyway — pick out the stuff that does work. You isolate it and try to recombine it. You’re going through. That’s just to make an article. If you’re making another book, you have to go through that whole thing again at a different level. You have to have bigger ideas to connect all those little ideas together. It takes several cycles. During that period of writing — I’m a slow writer and I’m a slow typer — I won’t get very far. But I will spend a lot of time just staring at the screen, staring out the window. For me, it’s a type of thinking. Or I’ll pace, where I’m trying to think, “What do I think? I don’t know.” It’s a type of thinking. It’s not literary in that sense. I work with people who are real writers, like Neal Stephenson. He writes every day. He loves to write. He lives to write. He just writes like you would speak. It just comes out of him. That’s not me. I write out of desperation as a way of thinking. It’s very slow. I don’t generate very many words. I do it reluctantly. Kelton Reid: That’s funny that you say that. I know that a lot of writers and best-selling authors say the same thing. They don’t like to write. They would rather be reading. Yet they have these storied publishing pasts. You get the words down there. What you’re talking about is that classic creative process where you’re doing the research, getting all this stuff together. You need that incubation phase to get that “Ah-ha” moment of an idea. Thanks so much for joining me for this half of a tour through the writer’s process. If you enjoy The Writer Files podcast, please subscribe to the show. Leave us a rating, or a review on iTunes to help other writers find us. For more episodes, or to just leave a comment or a question, you can drop by WriterFiles.FM. You can always chat with me on Twitter @KeltonReid. Cheers. Talk to you next week.

Chief Communication Officer Japhy's INTRO / #SNAFU Mea Culpa 4min - #Kraken alert, stormy seas, tech issues & echoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken http://www.fargonebooks.com/high.html http://www.amazon.com/Todd-Brendan-Fahey/e/B001K91I5G https://medium.com/@ToddFahey/hell-bottled-up-chronicles-of-a-late-propaganda-minister-far-gone-books-2016-74b285b197c3#.xjpa63nse Hell Bottled Up is "an eye-opening, Gonzo journey into the dark heart of John McCain via the strange, twilight world of ultra-Right Arizona politics. Gut-wrenching, humorous and confrontational journalism issued by a propaganda specialist stationed at Ground Zero. Todd Brendan Fahey is one of the most illuminating, renegade minds in contemporary America" - Alex Burns, [former] Editor-in-Chief Disinfo.com 5min30sec - The Worlds' BIGGEST Ever Pirate Story 1989 #USC Professional Writing Program, dabbling in various #psychedelics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelia Paul Gillette #PlayMistyForMe http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067588/ http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/18/us/paul-gillette-58-wrote-play-misty.html #ClintEastwood, Dr. Humphrey Osmond, #AldousHuxley #FrankChurch #MKULTRA #LauraHuxley Al Hubbard is the co-protagonist of #WisdomsMaw: The Acid Novel [Far Gone Books, 1996]: http://www.amazon.com/Wisdoms-Maw-Todd-Brendan-Fahey-ebook/dp/B00FSG7NCE https://web.archive.org/web/20040214095925/ http://www.thememoryhole.org/hubbard/ 14min - #OSS, Wild Bill Donovan, #HankAlbarelli #FrankOlsen https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hank+albarelli+lsd https://duckduckgo.com/?q=frank+olson+lsd 17min30sec - Operation Midnight Climax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax 19min - George Hunter White, Political Blackmail, #AcidDreams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Dreams https://duckduckgo.com/?q=george+hunter+white+operation+midnight+climax 22min30sec - Todd drops an F-BOMB! ( on a Pirate Ship ) Fear & Loathing w/ Al Hubbard's "spooky" archivist, factionalized 30min - #ExclusiveInterview, living in an UN disclosed location, sick & tired of Korea 32min - A String Of Saturdays, 33min - #HellBottledUp 34min - Fear & Loathing in Amsterdam, #SmokeMagazine 38min - #TheWarOnSomeDrugs 39min - Let's Make A Book Deal, signed copies, PDF form, #AmazonReviews http://fargonebooks.com/wisdomsmaw/1/WMchap1.pdf 41min - Timothy Leary hated HST, #WisdomsMaw published 1996, Thompson's publisher #WilliamStankey 43:30min - #KrisMillegan, #TrineDay Publications 45min - #SPINMagazine, 46min - #FarGoneBooks 48min - Mike Kawitsky "Journey To Everywhere" http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Kawitzky/e/B00KX8K7LQ #Neuronauts, #TerrenceMcKenna 51min - #VICEMagazine, Kindle, Amazon bloodsuckers 52min - #DavidBowie, Oh You Pretty Things, #RUSirius, Kenn Goffman, MONDO 2000, True Mutations 56min - #DouglasRushkoff, #Mindsdotcom, take BACK the power 58min - Appear.in video conferencing platform, algorithms, Facebook's AWFUL hashtags 1hr - #EdwardSnowden #AnimalFarm, #BoingBoing Zine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Frauenfelder http://realitysandwich.com/260993/the- future-is-now-an-interview-with-douglas-rushkoff/ 1hr1min - #TPP legitimacy controversy 62min30sec - #JohnPerryBarlow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow https://www.youtube.com/results?q=declaration+independence+cyberspace #BlockChain Technology, decentralized, Digital #CryptoCurrency, #NetFreedom, #CreativeCommons, #TOR 1hr7min - Reality Sandwich.com, #DanielPinchbeck, #BillOttman, #WSBurroughs, The #BeatGeneration 1hr8min - #USENET, #USC, #HighTimes 1hr10min - #DouglasRushkoff, Program Or Be Programed, #WarrenZevon, Enjoy Every Sandwich, #DavidLetterman, #HST does stand-up comedy, #Hunter S. Thompson, Redondo Beach, The Strand Theater, Off the Record, #COCAINE http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rapscallion Hunter as the Pirate King 1hr14min - Bohemian Grove, Todd's Bohemian Grove "friends", Alex Jones, HST infamous snuff allegations https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hunter+s+thompson+snuff+movie&ia=videos #FACTCHECK 1hr16min - #AdamGorightly & the EARLY Discordians, Greg Hill, Kerry Thornley, Robert Anton Wilson, #RAW 1hr18min - #RUSirius, #DavidBowie, #PhilipKDick, the PINK Beam 1hr20min - TBF on the supernatural & paranormal, Man-made UFOS as an #OpenSecret https://duckduckgo.com/?q=secret+man+made+ufos+triangular+tr+3B 1hr21min - #GregBishop, #RadioMisteriso, Pirate Radio Exclusive, Coast to Coast AM, #GeorgeKnapp, depression, suicide, professional struggles, lack of recognition, HST's personal note to TBF July 1997, & helping to save lives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Is_Not_the_End https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=death+is+not+the+end+dylan 1hr27min - #KittyDukakis drinks rubbing alcohol, #JimmyCarter and HST friends? #RUTHLESS https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hunter+s+thompson+on+jimmy+carter 1hr28min - #KennThomas, Konspiracy Kon in Korea ????? #Parapolitics #Spooks #Kooks 1hr31min - #ChejuDo #photography. Wisdom's Maw #screenplay "As your attorney, i advise you to ..." 1hr33min - TBF's CLASS vs. SHIT list, #PaulKrassner ( is NOT DEAD ..... yet ) http://www.paulkrassner.com/ #PaulKanter http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2016/01/28/reports-jefferson-airplanes-paul-kantner-dies/79490508/ #AlAronowitz http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/al-aronowitz-77-a-writer-of-1960s-scene/18088/ 1h37min - Xenophobia in Korea Dr, David A Mason ( Episode #12 of Pirate Radio Poddcast ) http://space-pirate-radio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-28T22_20_40-07_00 1hr38min - Japhy meets Kesey & the Pranksters in #Edinburgh, #WheresMerlin Tour, Grateful Dead, Kesey's Farm, August 1992, #JerryGarcia collapses into diabetic coma http://www.key-z.com/who.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters 1hr41min - #MagicBus #Furthur restored, #Pranksters 50th Anniversary Tour, more #ficitionalization, #HellBottledUp, #FranklinMoore, threats of lawsuits, TBF denied yet again 1hr43min - #ZaneKesey invites Japhy on #Further, #VanMorrison ( on Todd's CLASS list ), #CHANNEL4, #CH4, #JohnCassidy, #JB, #RosslynChapel, Japhy invites Pranksters, #HolyBloodHolyGrail, #DaVinciCode, #DanBrown 1hr45min - #Standford LSD experiments, #MenloPark Veterans Hospital, ground zero for the psychedelic 60's, did it lead to the END of #MKULTRA? FREE PDF download of Wisdom's Maw - Chapter One http://www.tokesignals.com/wisdoms-maw-the-acid-novel-how-it-all-began-2/ 1hr49min - The War on SOME "Drugs", #ERGOT, the #WarOnConsciousness, #MagicMushrooms, prohibiting nature, the Yage Letters, #AllenGinsberg, #Genesis1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yage-Letters-William-S-Burroughs/dp/0872860043/279-5116520-0451153 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kesey+stanford+hospital+lsd 1hr50min - #BiometricBeast, #PoliticalPrisoners, #Fingerprinting, #RetinalScans, SouthKorea, #NannyState, #Confucianism, textbook #Fascism, #CHAEBOLS, "The SIXTIES never happened ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol 1hr53min - #RobertAntonWilson, #RAW, #Austin,Texas, Reverend #IvanStang, #ChurchOfSubGenius, #SantaCruz, #Disinfo DOT com, #ConspiracyCon, #DisinfoCon, TBF saves Uncle Bob's ass & becomes a bonafide POPE of #Discordia 1hr57min - Tech issues be DAMNED! Contact: fargonebooks@gmail.com for digital goodies 1hr58min - http://www.howtoteachenglishabroad.com/blog/9-celebrities-you-wont-believe-taught-english-abroad #MINDS dot com #FANN Fringe Alternative News Network (FANN™) https://www.facebook.com/groups/162594 0707672680/ Pirate-Radio-Podcasts.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/461356700723676/ Pirate Radio Calendar April 16th - Kris Millegan ( #SNAFU CANCELLED ) April 22nd/23rd - #ToddBrendanFahey #GONZO #Journalism April 25th - #EXCLUSIVE #MindsPanel April 29th/30th - #WilliamRamsey #Crowley & the #occult May 6th - #TammyFaye - #NYC Musician & performer May 13th - *Chris Brown #UFOContactee / Todd Winnipeg Alternative Press #WAM https://www.facebook.com/mcdooge May 20th - #AageNost May 27th - Seph N. Havens #MGTOW June first 2 weeks TBA - #JohnFord roundtable, #KrisMillegan June 17th https://www.facebook.com/peterdaley72 #SEWOL #KoreanCults June 24th/25th week #KennThomas #SteamshovelPress #Parapolitics July1st - WEED #Roundtable “Life is real; life is earnest. Death is not the goal” - Hunter S. Thompson to Todd Brendan Fahey, July 1997 Talk to Mark Frauenfelder about Blockchain. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=magic+bus+who+pranksters

When computer scientist Andreas Antonopoulos first heard about bitcoin in 2011 he dismissed it as “nerd money.” Six months later he happened on bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s now-legendary white paper written in November 2008. This nine-page, dryly-written document unrolled a blueprint for a system that would replace large swaths of the financial services industry with a globally-distributed encryption-based transaction network that wasn’t owned by anyone. After reading the white paper, Antonopoulos’ mind was blown. “This isn’t money,” he realized, “it’s a decentralized trust network,” with applications extending far beyond digital currency. Antonopoulos says he became “obsessed and enthralled” with bitcoin, “spending 12 or more hours each day glued to a screen, reading, writing, coding, and learning” as much as he could. He said, “I emerged from the state of fugue, more than 20 pounds lighter from a lack of consistent meals, determined to dedicate myself to working on bitcoin.” Five years later, Antonopoulos’ work has paid off. The 43-year-old entrepreneur is one of the most respected experts in bitcoin and blockchain technology, and he regularly shares his expertise with businesses and organizations around the world. His 2014 book, Mastering Bitcoin, was called the “best technical reference available on bitcoin today,” by Balaji Srinivasan, the CEO of 21.co, and has received high praise from Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation. My name is Mark Frauenfelder. I’m a research affiliate at Institute for the Future, a nonprofit thinktank that helps organizations and the public think systematically about the future in order to make better decisions in the present. In January 2016, IFTF launched the the Blockchain Futures Lab, a research initiative and a community for “identifying the opportunities and limits of blockchain technologies and their social, economic, and political impacts on individuals, organizations, and communities over the coming decades.” I spoke to Antonopoulos to get his thoughts on the current state of blockchain technology and where it’s headed. What he had to say to be surprising and enlightening. To learn more about Institute for the Future and the Blockchain Futures Lab, visit IFTF.org

In episode 018, Mark Frauenfelder is joined by Boing Boing's software developer Dean Putney to discuss their favorite productivity gadgets — a free speed reading utility and a "Seinfeld" calendar generator. Also, Mark talks about his Bialetti 1-Cup Stovetop Espresso Maker, and Dean talks about using a Coleman Water Carrier to keep water close while at home.

Colin Marshall sits down in Studio City with Mark Frauenfelder, founder of the popular zine-turned-blog Boing Boing, founding co-editor of Make magazine, and author of Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects. They discuss whether he still thinks about Los Angeles dingbat apartments, and the extent to which their owners have customized them today; all barriers falling for the modern maker except for the one asking who's interested; how his daughters' fascination with card tricks preceded their interest in making things; what kind of project kids can complete under their own steam; Los Angeles as a place for makers, the current state of its maker spaces, and the making heritage offered by its historical hot-rod culture as described in Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby; his history with this city, which goes back to 1987, albeit one interrupted by periods in Japan, on a South Pacific island, and elsewhere; the semi-agricultural life- and making style Los Angeles affords him; how growing your own food allows you to think more clearly about food, and making your own media allows you to think more clearly about media; how his grasp of media improved as he engaged in every stage of the D.I.Y. publishing revolution; learning through mistakes, as opposed to school's pressure not to make mistakes in the first place; the debilitating world of the "smart kid"; the "freedom to be foolish" offered in Los Angeles; the dueling temptations of broadminded generalism and singleminded obsession; his role in the cyberpunk culture of the 80s and 90s, and to what extent we live in the utopian and/or dystopian future it envisioned today; his hope for an increasingly tech-focused San Francisco to continue exporting progressive ideas; the rise of meta-making, and the promise of large-scale decentralized making of solving some of "the world's problems"; how he deals with the firehose of amazing stuff to feature on Boing Boing and in Make; and what his daughters have taught him about making while he's taught them about making.

In today's episode I talk to Mark Frauenfelder, editor of Make Magazine, founder of Boing Boing, and author of the book Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throw Away Society. We discuss his experience developing a DIY ethos and becoming more sufficient.

The Boing Boing / Make Magazine / Cool Tools editor and I found the quietest corner we could at the recent Engadget Expand event in New York to discuss the importance of curation in the digital age, the lost art of print media, podcasting and the magic of Art Bell.

In September 2013, I interviewed at the XOXO conference and festival the four lead editors of Boing Boing, an online, thriving descendent of zine culture that is one of the most popular blogs on the Internet. For the day after Christmas, it seems appropriate to celebrate generosity and gift culture with Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin. As with all the sessions at XOXO, the presentation is Creative Commons licensed, and I separately obtained permission from Andy Baio and Andy McMillan. Thanks, too, to Mike Gebhardt and Betty Farrier of brytCAST.com, the folks who videotaped throughout XOXO 2012 and 2013, for providing the high-quality audio file.

Charlie Wilson made hits in the 80s as the frontman of the Gap Band. In the 90s he was homeless on the streets of LA. Then, he turned it all around. Jesse talks with Charlie Wilson about his astonishing career with The Gap Band and his later collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Tupac and more. Plus hear stand-up comedy from The Daily Show's Al Madrigal, culture picks from Mark Frauenfelder, and which Mountain Goats song you should listen to immediately.

Mark Frauenfelder likes to celebrate and encourage creativity in every form. He's the founder of BoingBoing, a directory of wonderful things that's encouraged "happy mutants" for over 15 years (and was a zine created with his wife, Carla Sinclair, before that), and the editor of Make Magazine, one of the inspirations of and driving forces behind the maker movement. Mark's book Made by Hand documents how he turned to raising chickens, growing food, and pulling espresso as a counterpart to his increasingly digitally focused life. We talk about the revival of people's interest in making things and collaborating with others in communities, as well as his book and Make magazine.

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (University of Minnesota Press) Essayist Mark Dery reads and signs his new collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. "Mark Dery's cultural criticism is the stuff that nightmares are made of. He's a witty and brilliant tour guide on an intellectual journey through our darkest desires and strangest inclinations. You can't look away even if you want to." --Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz, Boing Boing Mark Dery is a cultural critic, whose books include The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, which has been translated into eight languages, and was a New York Times “New & Noteworthy” book. He edited the scholarly anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. His most recent book is the essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. He is writing a biography of the artist Edward Gorey for Little, Brown. Photo of the author by Jorge Madrigal. Copyright Mark Dery; all rights reserved

Author and comedian Baratunde Thurston talks about how to be black, whether it's in high school at Sidwell Friends, in college at Harvard, or while working at The Onion. His satirical self-help book is called — that's right! — 'How to Be Black'. Plus Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark — hosts of the podcast 'Stuff You Should Know' — introduce us to Lucha Libre (also known as Mexican professional wrestling!).

Daniel Handler delves into his memories of young love to pen the novel "Why We Broke Up" — the twist? He writes the girl's side of the story. The Sklar Brothers talk about their new comedy album – from performing as identical twins to broadening their sports-nerd base. Plus Jesse suggests the Canadian TV show The Newsoom, Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing brings his recommendations and American composer Nico Muhly shares the song that changed his life.

Tricking out an espresso machine, carving wooden spoons from a broken tree branch, killing his lawn (on purpose), and trying to build a coyote-proof chicken enclosure are just some of the DIY projects Mark Frauenfelder has tackled with various degrees of success. He joins Talk Credit Radio to talk about his projects; and his book, Made by Hand: My Adventures in the World of Do-It-Yourself; and what he’s learned along the way.

Editor-in-Chief of MAKE magazine and editor at boingboing.net joins Bryan to discuss Mark's book Made by Hand: My Adventures in the World of Do-It-Yourself --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/askbryan/support

Colin Marshall talks to Mark Frauenfelder, editor of Make magazine and co-founder the zine which has become the massively popular blog Boing Boing. His latest book, Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World, is the story of his quest to fully customize his life by building, maintaining, and operating as much as possible with his own hands: hacking his espresso machine, making his own sauerkraut, building cigar-box guitars, brewing his own kombucha, and carving his own spoons, to name only a few of his eclectic set of pursuits.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of BoingBoing, the editor of Make Magazine, and the author of the new book Made By Hand, about the pleasure of making things yourself.​

Oct 23, 2006. “Boing Boing” editors Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz interview author and mathematician Rudy Rucker about his two upcoming books:” Mad Professor” and “Mathematicians in Love.” Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

While science often strives to reveal the best elements of nature, it often can reveal the worst. On this program, Mark Frauenfelder discussed some of the worst science.