Welcome back to the New Disruptors! Although regular episode production has ended, I will occasionally post new interviews when I find ideas for independent creative people that I haven’t encountered before or a particularly compelling individual or business. Right now, it may seem bleak, but we will all be in a state of reinvention over… Continue reading Consumption in the Age of Pandemic with Dan Frommer (Episode 114)
Category: Publications
What’s the Three One One in Two Oh One Eight, Walt Hickey? (Episode 106)
Walt Hickey is a data journalist who launched a newsletter for numeric nerds several months ago. He’s worked for Business Insider, FiveThirtyEight, and, currently, Insider (a sister company to BI), often writing about the intersection of culture and data: How we can understand movies, books, and social trends better through a filter of numbers, or how… Continue reading What’s the Three One One in Two Oh One Eight, Walt Hickey? (Episode 106)
What’s Your Latest? Drive by Dave Kellett (Episode 104)
Dave Kellett is the guest on my latest installment of the podcast-within-the-podcast, “What’s Your Latest?” I talk to experienced creators about their latest project. For Dave, that’s the second volume (“Act Two”) of his Drive webcomics series that will ultimately span 1,000 pages and four or five print volumes. Dave is a cartoonist, podcaster, and co-director of the comics… Continue reading What’s Your Latest? Drive by Dave Kellett (Episode 104)
Draw Outside the Lines with C. Spike Trotman (Episode 100)
C. Spike Trotman (photo by Matt Sheridan) In this inaugural episode #100, the return of the podcast to regular production, I’m pleased as punch to have C. Spike Trotman as my guest. Spike founded Iron Circus Comics in 2007, and it’s risen through her hard work and excellent curatorship to become the Chicago… Continue reading Draw Outside the Lines with C. Spike Trotman (Episode 100)
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)
Wedding March to One’s Own Offbeat Drummer with Ariel Meadow Stallings (Episode 77)
Ariel Meadow Stallings is the proprietor of several “offbeat” sites about weddings, home and life, and families under the rubric Offbeat Empire. She started the wedding site in 2007 to promote a book on creative alternatives for brides, which built an audience hungry for much more of the same. She obliged and has been building… Continue reading Wedding March to One’s Own Offbeat Drummer with Ariel Meadow Stallings (Episode 77)
Live in Portland: Book Reading and The Doubleclicks (Episode 75)
Listen in as The Doubleclicks, a geeky two-sister band, perform four songs, and four authors read parts of their reported features from The Magazine: The Book at our last live book event in Portland, Oregon. The event was held at Reading Frenzy, and features John Patrick Pullen, Alison Hallett, Chris Higgins, and Elly Blue. Sponsors… Continue reading Live in Portland: Book Reading and The Doubleclicks (Episode 75)
Wheels on Fire with Elly Blue (Episode 71)
Elly Blue is a bike activist, writer, and publisher, and has run more Kickstarter campaigns than nearly any other person or group. She is fiercely in favor of using bikes as a necessary mode of transportation — though it is not necessarily the ideal — and describes herself as a feminist bicycle activist. We talk… Continue reading Wheels on Fire with Elly Blue (Episode 71)
Made from Scratch with Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin (Episode 65)
Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin founded Scratch Magazine, a born-digital publication that tells writers what they’re worth and how the publishing industry sausage-making factory actually works. Jane has an extensive background as an editor, and may be best known for her decade at Writer’s Digest. Manjula is a freelance writer, whose work has… Continue reading Made from Scratch with Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin (Episode 65)
Retooling Cool with Kevin Kelly (Episode 62)
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools re-imagines the Whole Earth Catalog, of which he was an editor and publisher, for the Internet era: crowdsourced, crowdmade, crowdmanaged. He’s been on the Internet for as long as there’s been an Internet for all us to get on. He was part of the founding team of Wired magazine, and the… Continue reading Retooling Cool with Kevin Kelly (Episode 62)