Interview with Adriana Cronin-Lukas, The Big Blog Company, by Henrik Foehns

"The network is always stronger than the node". This is the way Adriana always finishes her e-mails.

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Adriana is a partner at and founder of the Big Blog Company, the first consultancy agency for blogging in the UK. She advices companies in Europe and the United States on how to use blogging, rss and other social media in their communication.

She is also one of the editors of the group-blog Samizdata.net. They call themselfes a "globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty".

And she has her own blog: Mediainfluencer

In a few months DR - Danish Broadcast Corporation - will start to podcast 10 - 20 of its talkshows. This was promised by Erik Henz Kjeldsen, programming director at DR Interactive at the Radiodays conference. A yearly conference held at the Radiohouse in Copenhagen - home of the radiodepartment of DR - Danish Brodcast Corporation.

This year one of the panels was dedicated to podcasting. Participating in the panel were Nick Piggott, digital content manager, Creation, GWR Group; Henrik Fohns, editor, Mimertalks.org; Erik Henz Kjeldsen, programming director, DR Interactive and Steven Snedker, netpublisher and journalist, Vertikal.dk.

I apologize for the sound quality, which is a bit ragged during some sequences...

The recording was made Saturday 12th March 2005.

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Henrik Fohns talks to Joi Ito about the end of monopolies and the rise of a digital do-it-yourself mediaculture.
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This interview took place at the Ars Electronica Festival in September 2004 in Linz, Austria. Photo by Ars El.

Joichi Ito (J) is the founder and CEO of "Neoteny," venture capital firm focused on personal communications and enabling technologies. He has created numerous Internet companies including "PSINet Japan," "Digital Garage" and "Infoseek Japan." In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002. He recently joined the board of "Creative Commons," a non-profit devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share.

"The elite in our society are the ones who are willing to suffer for their gizmo,” said by the legendary American cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling at the Ars Electronica Festival September 2004 in Linz, Austria. Photo by Ars El.

Bruce Sterling was interviewed by Henrik Fohns about his new buzzword ”spime”, RFID tagging, European paranoia about GMO, the strange world of academic networks, the future of waste disposal and Austrian teaspoons!

But what is ”spime”? Listen and find out! Download MP3.

Links:
The Bruce Sterling online index

Bruce Sterling’s weblog: Beyond the beyond