This is it: I’m doing The Colbert Report Wednesday, July 15, 11:30pm on Comedy Central, repeated the next day in earlier time slots. Check your local listings, or watch the segment on the show’s website.
I have to admit this is the one media appearance I’m a little nervous about. Not that Colbert is an unfriendly host. He’s really one of us, pretending to be one of “them.” The trick is to remember that he’s actually drawing out a guest’s best arguments by playing the enemy. (As one of the producers told me, “pretend you’re speaking to an eight-year-old.”)
But he plays the part well – so well, in fact, that he often wins debates even against his own left-leaning version of the Colbert character. Conversations can also quickly devolve into an argument over a single issue as Colbert mines it for comedic potential. This can make for great entertainment, but can also prevent the guest from getting out his main and most important points.
I’m making a list of talking points (that I’ll surely forget once I’m actually on) but I welcome you to share the arguments you think most need to be heard. I’ll do my best to weave them in.
For more information about Douglas Rushkoff’s book, “LIFE INC. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back” check out lifeincorporated.net and the LIFE INC. 9min movie
The LIFE INC. Dispatch = Brief weekly videos encapsulating key concepts and ready strategies from Douglas Rushkoff’s LIFE INC. for de-corporatizing our lives, abandoning the speculative economy, and rebuilding both commerce and community from the bottom up.
You can also download an MP3 audio file of the Dispatch: Life Inc. Dispatch 02 – Audio
For more information about Douglas Rushkoff’s book, “LIFE INC. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back” check out lifeincorporated.net and the LIFE INC. 9min movie
The LIFE INC. Dispatch = Brief weekly videos encapsulating key concepts and ready strategies from Douglas Rushkoff’s LIFE INC. for de-corporatizing our lives, abandoning the speculative economy, and rebuilding both commerce and community from the bottom up.
You can also download an MP3 audio file of the Dispatch: Life Inc. Dispatch 01 – Audio
Richard Metzger interviews me about my book Life Inc., the economic meltdown, the failure of the mythology of corporatism, and why everything is going to be okay.
The Most Wired Place On Earth
Tuesday, April 14
PBS-FRONTLINE/World
9 PM EDT
(check local listings or watch online HERE )
Professional video gamers, “netiquette” for five-year-olds and a rehab camp for Internet-addicted teens: it’s all part of the digital landscape in South Korea. Correspondent Douglas Rushkoff takes a look at this highly wired society tomorrow night as the second segment on PBS’s FRONTLINE/World .
The footage is from our recent trip to South Korea, and it’s part of a larger project we’re producing for FRONTLINE, called Digital Nation
We’re going to be investigating life in the digital age through our website over the upcoming months, and it will culminate in a FRONTLINE documentary broadcast early next year.
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Also, for people in NYC this week, my friend Propaganda Anonymous is hosting a panel about the spiritual origins of HipHop. He has been working on this one a long time, and has gathered quite an interesting assortment of people.
Thursday April 16th, Prop Anon and Reality Sandwich present: INFINITY BLESSINGS, a panel event exploring the spiritual and philosophical foundations of hip-hop culture.
Speakers inlcude: Allah B from the Nations of the Gods and Earth’s; Brother Shep from the original Black Panther Party and the Universal Zulu Nation; Dr. Shaka Zulu from the Universal Zulu Nation; Lawyer and Activist, King Downing;Why-G from the Optimus Foundation; and Propaganda Anonymous.
Thursday April 16th, (doors 6pm, talk 7 to 10pm
The Player’s Theater
115 Macdougal St (btw. Bleeker and W. 3rd)
$10
After party at Sutra Lounge, 11pm to 4am
1st and Houston
Free!
This time out, my Frontline documentary is going to be released in pieces over the next year before it actually airs on PBS in January. The first bits are now showing up, along with a bunch of behind-the-scenes stuff, at the pbsdigitalnation.org website.
Here’s my talk from this past Thursday: “How the Web Ate the Economy and Why it’s Great for Everyone.” This is the first real Life Inc. talk I have given.
They only gave me 15 minutes, and wanted me to encapsulate my last book, Get Back in the Box in addition to whatever I wanted to say about the fall of central banking and new opportunities to create value from the periphery, so it’s a little rushed. But it was certainly fun to begin sharing these ideas, and it has led to a sudden influx of Twitter followers…
I’m guest blogging on BoingBoing this week and next, so look for twice-daily posts from me over there. I’m attempting to remind people what BoingBoinging is all about – at least for me – and why it’s so particularly appropriate an necessary skill in the current social and economic environment. As well as how it can be fun.
I’ll attempt to list the posts here as I post them.
January 21 - Brooklyn, NY. Talk for ETSY, 7p February 1 - The Webb School, Bell Buckle Tennessee. February 2 - Frontline Digital Nation premieres, 9pm PBS March 12 - SWSX, Austin TX more...
