Air America Interviews

Rushkoff and others on Air America’s Ring Of Fire with Mike Papantonio:

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Rushkoff and others on Air America’s Break Room Live with Marc Maron

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The Media Squat

Media Squat Radio begins this Monday, 7pm Eastern time on WFMU. Streams at www.wfmu.org or iTunes.

Radio Update

WFMU has given us a slot for our radio show, soon to be renamed The MediaSquat. We’ll be on live Monday evenings at 7pm Eastern, beginning March 16.

The subject will be the same as what we talked about for Life Incorporated Radio, but won’t share a name with the upcoming book, and won’t be misinterpreted as a promotional opportunity.

(Of course, it *is* a promotional opportunity – but more for the ideas we’re trying to spread than the book I might be trying to sell.)

More on that, soon.

Life Incorporated Radio

And so it begins.

Life Incorporated Radio, hosted by me, will have its premiere broadcast December 26th at 6pm EST on Freeform station WFMU. The show will be streamed live and podcast, and we’ll have live chat and discussions working throughout, as well as call-in via phone or Skype. Use the forums now to post questions for our first guest, Paul Krassner.

More info, constantly updating, on the Life Incorporated Radio page, where you can also find out more about the themes and objective of this project.

RadioBottomUp is On

Due to a scheduling glitch, I’ll only be appearing on the second half of a new radio project that I’ll eventually be hosting on a regular basis.

It will be taking place on Wednesday, November 5, at 7pm Eastern. We’re calling the show “Radio Bottom Up,” and it will be broadcast out of Point Reyes, California, on NPR affiliate KWMR. I’ll be calling in from home around 7:30pm.

It will also be available through stream at http://www.kwmr.org/

The studio only has two lines and no Skype capability, so my original plan for a free-for-all call-in format will have to wait until I hit WFMU and BlogTalkRadio in the spring will a more fully developed concept. But for now, Robin Gianattassio-Malle and I will be doing the show as a “call out” and inviting some of our best friends and greatest heroes to talk to via telephone about their thoughts, hopes and dreams moving forward post-election.

Currently, confirmed guests include Paul Krassner, RU Sirius, Ari Wallach, and Legba Carrefour.

While you can’t call in, you can chime in via the RadioBottomUp Category on the discussion forums here at rushkoff.com. I’ll endeavor to participate in the “live” conversation during the broadcast.

The point of the whole program, as well as this particular one-off broadcast, is to look at new possibilities for bottom-up, community-directed, decidedly local, or otherwise decentralized progress. My premise is that much of the world we accept as given circumstances is actually much closer to an open source proposition. By talking to people who are cracking and rewriting the codes by which we live, transact, and govern, we can model some powerfully new behaviors and strategies to make our world a better place.

We’ll also make a podcast available shortly after the broadcast.

Radio Bottom Up

This may have been a false alarm, so I’m deleting the original post until I know more.

I am going to be working with Robin Gianattassio-Malle, of KQED fame, on a new radio show – but next Wednesday may have proved too soon for us to get all the details straight and set.

I’ll keep posting here as I know more. I’m psyched by how enthusiastic everyone has been about the possibility. I promise there will be something very real by April – and hopefully some great experiments before then.

Bottom Line as Big Picture

I’ve been having a great time on the Brian Lehrer Show this month. We’re doing weekly conversations called “Open Source Living,” through which I’m trying to show the way our relationship to media and new media can be used to model our relationships to pretty much everything else.

Some terrific people have called in already, sharing some of what they’ve been doing with and through the web. It’s been inspiring.

There’s been an online conversation running throughout, and I found myself particularly amused by one person who not only thought that I was missing the big picture (that people should make money off these technologies) but saw fit to add that he currently earns 200k per year. I think that about says it.

Radio, Thursday Mornings

I’ll be doing an overview of new media’s impact on society, business, people and politics for the next four Thursdays at 10:40AM Eastern Time on the Brian Lehrer Show on NPR – 820am in NYC or streaming live here.

I’m not exactly sure how it will go, but I’ve got twenty minutes a week for the rest of the month, so it should develop over time. Please listen in and, if you’re interested, call the show while I’m on and we can talk.

Rushkoff on NPR, Monday Morning

I’ll be sharing some of my most current ideas about market forces Monday morning on New York’s NPR station, WNYC. It will be simulcast on Brian Lehrer Show web page. My segment will be on at 11:40AM Eastern Time.

Although the “hook” will be my recent brush with a mugger on my front stoop, the topic of my appearance will be the influence of market forces and gentrification on community, segregation, and local values – as well as what is the greater social cost, if any, of participation in real estate market-mania.

This will be the first interview related to a book I’m just beginning to write (the proposal is going out this week, in fact) about the rise of “Corporatism” as America’s value system.