ReanimateDIGG
Topics Discussed:
- Contemporary Digg - The Preview
- Rethink Digg or Rethunk Dugg?
- The Decline and Fall of Ancient Digg
- Migratory Patterns of Internet Users
- Facebook Suburbanization
- What we're reading
Recommended Reading:
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
- Doctor Who: Shada by Douglas Adams and Gareth Roberts
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire by Demandt
- Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
- The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy
- The Manara Library Volume 1 by Milo Manara
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
- Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
- The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
- The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
- Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
Recommended Viewing:
- The Guild created by Felicia Day
- Mad Max directed by George Miller
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior directed by George Miller
Recommended Podcasts:
Recommended Links:
- 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire
- Daily Dot: Reddit bans "The Atlantic" and "Businessweek" in major anti-spam move
- Reddit: IAmA Ex-Digg Employee. AMA.
- Rethink Digg
- Rethink Digg: v1 Preview
- Venture Beat: Digg relaunch preview
- Venture Beat: Digg sells to Betaworks for the fire sale price of… $500K (analysis)
- Wikipedia: Knights Tempar - Arrests, charges, and dissolution
Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.
Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox
Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099
Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment
We The Machinists…
We The Machinists... (The Thirteenth Disquisition) [ 1:21:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (144)
Topics Discussed:
- The Decline and Fall of Digg
- Rethink Digg or Rethunk Dugg?
- The Death of Anonynimity
- Migratory Patterns of Internet Users
- Facebook Suburbanization
- Identity Vampires
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Aurora Shooting
- Gun Control
- The US Constitution and Amendments
- What we're reading
Recommended Reading:
- The Making of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire by Demandt
- Superman: Speeding Bullets (Elseworlds) by John Marc DeMatteis
- The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
- The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
- The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
- Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
- Irredeemable: Volume 1 by Mark Waid
Recommended Viewing:
- Batman Begins directed by Christopher Nolan
- The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan
- The Dark Knight Rises directed by Christopher Nolan
Recommended Links:
- 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire
- JimYounkin.com: YouTube Pushing Users Switch To Real Names
- New York Times: Before and After Massacre, Puzzles Line Suspect's Path
- Rethink Digg
- Wikipedia: List of amendments to the United States Constitution
- Wired: A Digg Power User's Inside Take on the Rise and Fall of a Social Empire
- Venture Beat: Digg sells to Betaworks for the fire sale price of… $500K (analysis)
Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.
Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox
Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099
Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment
The Twelfth Disquisition: 210 Reasons for the decline of the Digg Empire
The Twelfth Disquisition: 210 Reasons for the decline of the Digg Empire [ 1:42:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (161)
Topics Discussed:
- The Decline and Fall of Digg
- The Social Fragmentation of Reddit
- Social Media as a Geopolitical Metaphor
- Migratory Patterns of Internet Users
- Demographic Focused Social Media
- Phone Booths in NY becoming Wi-Fi hot spots
- Derpa = Skynet
- The Carnation Revolution
- The Cultural Revolution in China
- Ballardian Concepts
- Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
- Evolving OWS and The Tea Party
Recommended Reading:
- Running Wild by J. G. Ballard
- The Making of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire by Demandt
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Fluff Principle by Paul Graham
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution? by Phil Mailer
- Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan
- The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
- A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
- A Study of History:Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold J. Toynbee
Recommended Viewing:
- Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present directed by Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre
Recommended Links:
- 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire
- The Atlantic: The Big Digg Lesson
- Flickr: Reserved for Lenin
- Forbes: Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did
- Forbes: The Lessons For Facebook, Twitter And Reddit In Digg's Demise
- Forbes: Reddit Didn't Kill Digg, Digg Killed Digg (Now With Extra Insights!)
- Gigaom: New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots
- Paul Graham: The Fluff Principle
- Venture Beat: Digg sells to Betaworks for the fire sale price of… $500K (analysis)
- The Wall Street Journal: Digg sells to tech development firm Betaworks for $500,000
- Wikipedia: Arnold J. Toynbee
- Wikipedia: Carnation Revolution
- Wikipedia: Marina Abramović
- Wired: Darpa's Wall-of-Sound Fire Extinguisher
Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.
Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox
Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099
Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment
The Ninth Disquisition: The Addictive Nature of the Meaningless Click
Topics Discussed:
- Zombie Apocalypse
- Zombies in Fiction
- Prometheus
- Fermi paradox
- Xenoarchaeology
- Star Trek
- The "Meaningless" Click in Social Media
- Digital Dualism and The Matrix
- Riots and Protests
- The Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
- US Citizenship and Immigration
- Population Density
- 4chan Culture and Reddit Culture
- Papa Doc's Army of Zombies
- Voodoo Zombies
- 4chan Culture and Reddit Culture
Recommended Reading:
- Total Eclipse by John Brunner
- The Comedians by Graham Greene
- Cell by Stephen King
- The Engines Of God by Jack McDevitt
- Protector by Larry Niven
- Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
Recommended Viewing:
- The Signal directed by David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry
- The Serpent and the Rainbow directed by Wes Craven
- Blue Sunshine directed by Jeff Lieberman
Recommended Podcast Episodes:
Recommended Links:
- The Economist: Prometheus Review
- The New Yorker: Leaving Facebookistan
- Giant Freakin Robot: Michael Dorn Is Pitching A Star Trek Movie About Worf
- Wikipedia: Fermi paradox
- Wikipedia: List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density
- Wikipedia: Methylenedioxypyrovalerone
- Wikipedia: Xenoarchaeology
Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.
Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox
Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099
Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment
Presenting the Disquisition Podcast
A long while ago, Lee was a guest on Social Blend, and after recording, he and I stayed on the call for hours. It was one of the most stimulating and interesting conversations ever.
Then a while back, Lee released the conclusion for his War comic saga depicting the great internet war between Reddit and Digg. We had him on the show again to discuss the comic.
But it happened again. Post-show, Lee and I were on the line for at least 4 hours - discussing a whole range of issues and ideals; an especially interesting conversation.
We decided to turn this experience into a podcast. No show notes. No ideas as to where we're going. Each week, we jump on a call and hit record. We have no idea how it's going to turn out, but essentially it will be a raw, honest conversation, with me also facilitating the discussion to get some of Lee's profound and intelligent ideas across to people.
What are some of things we'll probably discuss? A whole range of things. Judging by our previous conversations: the development of cultural phenomena in social media, history, philosophy, ideologies, books you should probably check out, movies you've probably never heard of - and the odd mention of Star Wars, pop culture, and music.
The first show is to be recorded tonight, and will be posted here tomorrow, Tuesday, March 13.