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Hi, Again!

Thanks to all those of you who visited our premiere show, called in and took time to make comments. As I'm new at this, the show doesn't have a regularly scheduled broadcast yet. I'm working on that.

In the meantime, I'm vetting a list of exciting future guests and thought I'd share with you what's coming next. Confirmed interviews over the next couple of months:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 11:00 a.m. EST/8:00 a.m. PST: ***Robert Jensen, author, columnist, and associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. At UT, Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the College of Communication.

In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on p---y and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men's violence. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized r---m.

In addition to teaching and research, Jensen writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.

Jensen is the author of Getting Off: P---y and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, R---m and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002); co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of P---y: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998); and co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York University Press, 1995).
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I've featured interviews with Bob when I was doing G21: The World's Magazine, in the past, and look forward to having him as a guest to share his views with you. We'll also talk about his new book "Getting Off: P---y and the End of Masculinity". I hope you'll join us.

COMING IN DECEMBER, TBA***: Esther Dyson: Esther Dyson is the Internet’s court jester, a person of noinstitutional importance who somehow manages to speak the truth and tobe heard when and where it matters. She does business as EDventure, thereclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before sellingit to CNET Networks in 2004.

You can find out more from links at www.edventure.com , but . Or you can e-mail her at edyson@boxbe.com. (You'll be challenged with a captcha, but give it a whirl!)

Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include Boxbe , CVO Group , Eventful , Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup ,Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia)…and WPP Group (not astart-up). Some of her other direct IT investments include Flickr andDel.icio.us (sold to Yahoo!), BrightMail (sold to Symantec), Orbitz(sold to Cendant), Medstory (sold to Microsoft), ActiveWeave, BlogAds,ChoiceStream, Dotomi, Linkstorm, Mashery, Ovusoft, Plazes, Powerset,Resilient, Tacit, Technorati, Visible Path, Vizu.com and Zedo.

As a two-time weightless flyer, she is also active in the commercialspace/airline start-up world, with investments in ConstellationServices, Icon Aircraft, Space Adventures, XCOR Aerospace and Zero-G.She will run the third annual Flight School conference, on the newair-taxi market, this June 20 to 22 in Aspen, CO.

She also blogs occasionally for the Huffington Post, as Release 0.9. She posts photos with captions at Flickr .

On the non-profit side, Dyson sits on the boards of the Eurasia Foundation , the Long Now Foundation , the Santa Fe Institute and the Sunlight Foundation .

For more than 20 years Dyson wrote the newsletter Release 1.0 and ranPC Forum, the IT market’s leading executive conference. She sold themto CNET Networks in 2004, and left CNET at the end of 2006. (The Forumwas discontinued under CNET Networks’ ownership, while O’Reilly Medianow produces Release 1.0 under the new name of Release 2.0, withDyson’s blessing.) Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN(policy-setter for the DNS) from 1998-2000, and was also chairman ofthe Electronic Frontier Foundation in the 90s. In 1997, she wrote her(so far) only book, “Release 2.0: A design for living in the digitalage,” which appeared in paperback a year later as “Release 2.1.” In1994, she wrote a seminal essay on intellectual property for WIREDmagazine. In both her investments and her nonprofit activities, she hasalways been concerned with the impact of information (technology) onbusiness and society.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, Noon EST/9:00 a.m. PST****: Howard Rheingold: is the author of:

Tools for Thought < http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/>
The Virtual Community <http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/ >
Smart Mobs <http://www.smartmobs.com>

Was:

editor of Whole Earth Review < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Review>
editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog < http://www.well.com/user/hlr/mwecintro.html>
founding executive editor of Hotwired < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired>
founder of Electric Minds < http://www.abbedon.com/electricminds/html/home.html>
Non-resident Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, 2007 < http://www.annenberg.edu/info/rheingold.php>

Has taught:

Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall 2005, 2006, 2007 ) < http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/participatory_media_and_collective_action/participatory_media_and_collective_action.cfm>
< http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/programs/courses/296a-pmca>
Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, UC Berkeley, Spring 2008) < http://www.socialtext.net/stanfordsocialmedia/index.cgi?syllabus>
Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005)
Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007 )< http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/Rheingold/79>

Is:


Visiting Professor, De Montfort University, UK

Current projects:

The Cooperation Project < http://www.cooperationcommons.org>
Participatory Media Literacy < https://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/>
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He's also an old friend of the mine from the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link BBS (I know, I'm showing my age!) an internationally acknowledge communications and social media visionary. I'm pleased to have a chance to interview him live and let you and he share some thoughts.

When you're not visiting here, you can find out more about me and what I'm hope to at my "official" Blog, G21: Lightning Strikes. I hope you'll visit me there, as well.

More to Come!

Cheers,
Rod