Guest host Jason Snell talks to regular host Glenn Fleishman about Glenn’s recent Kickstarter campaign to fund a book of non-fiction articles from The Magazine. Jason, host of The Incomparable and an editorial director at a major magazine firm, quizzes Glenn about failure, success, fulfillment (product and otherwise), and the reason we solicit funds from… Continue reading Gaze Deeply into My Crowdfunding Navel with Guest Glenn Fleishman (Episode 58)
Category: Publications
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)
A Year of Living Disruptively with Guests from Early Episodes (53)
The New Disruptors launched on December 5, 2012. I wanted to talk to people making stuff, creating art, or helping others get their work out there. The show is now at episode 53, and it’s been a delightful year. I wanted to look back at early guests, and was able to get the folks who… Continue reading A Year of Living Disruptively with Guests from Early Episodes (53)
I Am the Camera with Dean Putney (Episode 48)
Photo by heysanford. Dean Putney has made some of your favorite things on the Internet. He’s Boing Boing’s software developer, as well as filling your mind with the best animated GIFs on the Internet. But what he’s working on at the moment takes us over 100 years into the past: a… Continue reading I Am the Camera with Dean Putney (Episode 48)
Code Monkey Comixology Crazy
The first installment in the Code Monkey Saves World comic-book series based on Jonathan Coulton’s songs and written by Greg Pak is available to the public today via ComiXology. I talked to Jonathan and Greg in May about their blockbuster Kickstarter, and as a backer, I had the first issue in my hot little hands… Continue reading Code Monkey Comixology Crazy
Pictures from a World War I Soldier
My friend, Dean Putney, has a Kickstarter in its last days. His great-grandfather served in the German army in the first World War, and an absurdly well-preserved treasure trove of photographs and stereographs — and the negatives! — were handed down through the family. Dean has made it a mission to preserve and present these… Continue reading Pictures from a World War I Soldier
Yes, We Can! with Marisa McClellan (Episode 38)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 24 MB, 50 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Marisa McClellan puts stuff in jars and it’s delicious. Her Food in Jars blog on canning and preserving went from a side venture alongside a full-time job… Continue reading Yes, We Can! with Marisa McClellan (Episode 38)
Why Not Take Awl of Me with Choire Sicha (Episode 37)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 29 MB, 61 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Choire Sicha (pronounced “Corey SEEK-a”) is one of the founders of The Awl, a site devoted to new writing and events of the day, with four sister… Continue reading Why Not Take Awl of Me with Choire Sicha (Episode 37)
Episode 36: Machine of Breadth with David Malki
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 48 MB, 1 hour 46 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. David Malki’s biography would take five minutes to read out. You may know him best as the perpetrator of the cartoon Wondermark,but he’s also a… Continue reading Episode 36: Machine of Breadth with David Malki
Episode 31: Me Eat Pretty Some Day with Matthew Amster-Burton
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 31.6 MB, 66 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically Matthew Amster-Burton is a food writer and host of the podcast Spilled Milk. Matthew has a particular affinity for Japanese food, and that led to a trip… Continue reading Episode 31: Me Eat Pretty Some Day with Matthew Amster-Burton