Jen Bekman, Zoë Salditch, and Mike Merrill were our guests live on stage at the XOXO 2014 festival in Portland, Oregon, as part of the Story evening that also featured Hrishikesh Hirway’s Song Exploder, featuring a song by The Thermals; John Roderick (The Long Winters) interviewing Chelsea Cain; and Harmontown with Dino Stamatopoulos. Jen Bekman… Continue reading Hugs and Kisses Goodbye: Live from XOXO 2014 (Episode 93)
Category: Conferences
Fit to Print with Andy McMillan (Episode 92)
Andy McMillan makes things that bring people together: the Build conference, the XOXO festival, and The Manual, a series of books with thoughtful essays about design. After producing three print volumes of The Manual, he’s trying to take it to the next level, and produce something openly, broadly available across many media, that’s a collaboration… Continue reading Fit to Print with Andy McMillan (Episode 92)
Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)
Jesse Thorn is a polycast — a polymath of podcasts. He helped define the form by taking a show that he developed with others on a college radio station and making it into a podcast in 2004. That show, the Sound of Young America, now called Bullseye, focuses on interesting cultural trends and sports in-depth interviews,… Continue reading Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)
Nicole Dieker wears a lot of hats, as well as a brown coat. She’s a freelance copywriter and ghostwriter, pens fiction, and writes essays. She’s also a musician who bootstrapped herself out of a convention to which she returns every year, a rock climber, a Firefly fan, a whiskey drinker, and much more. Nicole wears… Continue reading Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)
Conjunction Junction with Oni Hartstein and James Harknell (Episode 83)
Oni and Harknell founded Intervention (Internet + Convention) after constantly fielding questions from creators looking for advice; it’s now in its fifth year. The partners created the event aimed at people trying to make their own opportunities to express creativity, often with a commercial angle as part of a career, while keeping it affordable, accessible,… Continue reading Conjunction Junction with Oni Hartstein and James Harknell (Episode 83)
The Zine Machine Lives: Boing Boing at XOXO (Episode 55)
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,… Continue reading The Zine Machine Lives: Boing Boing at XOXO (Episode 55)
The Labors of Job with Alli Dryer and Jenni Leder (Episode 50)
Two UI/UX designers in fur hats, Jenni Leder (left) and Alli Dryer. This podcast often emphasizes going it alone. But what if you could achieve your own dreams of continuous learning and creative expression while also having full-time jobs and getting that mythical thing, a regular paycheck? I talk with Alli Dryer… Continue reading The Labors of Job with Alli Dryer and Jenni Leder (Episode 50)
Actually, Quite Likely! Recorded Live in Brooklyn (Episode 49)
We recorded a special live episode of The New Disruptors in Brooklyn’s fantastic DUMBO district in the Galapagos Art Space as part of the Nearly Impossible conference in which we talked about the joys, challenges, and surprises in prototyping, funding, producing, and distributing products. On stage, we had Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy of CW&T, Tom… Continue reading Actually, Quite Likely! Recorded Live in Brooklyn (Episode 49)
Free, Live Taping in New York, November 6th
Come to DUMBO, the up-and-coming area of Brooklyn, for a live taping on November 6th that’s part of the Nearly Impossible conference. Tickets are free and you don’t need to be a conference attendee. (But the conference is pretty cool and very “ND” like: it’s teaching people how to make ideas into products.) It’s be… Continue reading Free, Live Taping in New York, November 6th
Live Readings from the Magazine
The Magazine was part of Lit Crawl 2013 in Seattle, andwriters Nancy Gohring and Matthew Amster-Burton, along with yours truly, read some of their work aloud to a live audience. Nancy read “Laid Out,” I intoned “The Sound of Silence,” and Matthew performed from his book, “Pretty Good Number One.”