Reality 2.0

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Travis Carden and Petros Koutoupis about maintaining open source projects, mentoring contributors, Drupal, and automated testing. Show notes: (42s): Intros, subscribe to our newsletter, and buy our swag. ;) (1m 38s): Who IS Travis Carden? (4m 36s): Maintaining an open source project and mentoring contributors. (8m 13s): Drupal's origins and evolution. (18m...

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about protecting yourself online, password and security best practices, and a tragic tale. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk facial recognition AI using our photos for training, and how we collectively negotiate our own privacy online. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk Twitter's new Birdwatch experiment, Signal's resistance to moderation, and Redditors' impact on the stock market. Show notes: [02:06]: Twitter outsourcing content moderation with expirimental Birdwatch feature. [13:32]: Signal's founder has pushed back against internal efforts to have some sort of mechanism to prevent misuse of the platform....

Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dean Landsman and Paul Walker about radio broadcasting, including long distance coverage. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Dean Landsman and Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Evan Greer, Deputy Director of digital rights activism group Fight for the Future about Section 230, privacy, politics, de-platforming, and internet policy. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Evan Greer.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about the SolarWinds hack, and Facebook's reaction to Apple privacy initiatives. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about fragmentation and software development, the Amazon Halo, and surveilling school children. Subscribe to our newsletter. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Show notes: Katherine (41s): The concept of fragmentation as it applies to software development. Kyle (1m 44s): [I]f you're an application...

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman have a fun chat with Petros Koutoupis about open source in space, digital detox, World War 2 cryptography, and poop in the desert. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls and Jon Lebkowsky talk reality, social constructs, the internet, and disinformation. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Jon Lebkowsky.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Petros Koutoupis, and Kyle Rankin talk Parler and platform lock-in, the concept of data, software, and hardware ownership, and the open source social contract. Show notes: (49s): “I think the first one, maybe the that's that we could cover is, well, let's see, how do I put this without causing too much controversy? That's just the idea of siloed social, silos of any...

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Professor Barbara Cherry of Indiana University about political division, legislation and regulation, technical evolution, and more. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Barbara Cherry.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to Hadrian Zbarcea about revolutions, both technical and other. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Hadrian Zbarcea and Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Kyle Rankin talk about facial recognition and surveillance technology in the hands of individuals, and how that affects the balance of power. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk social media regulation and its relationship to journalism and the threat to Section 230. Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis discuss the evolution of podcasting vs. radio. Show Notes: 00:00:57 Please subscribe to our Newsletter - a reminder :) 00:01:35 Radio vs Podcasting, is it like Godzilla vs Bambi? 00:06:51 What makes podcasting so accessible? 00:20:27 Where we host our podcast and a shoutout to fireside.fm 00:41:27 "Linux is free if your time has no value" --Jami...

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dr. Augustine Fou about his privacy analysis app, Page X-Ray, ad tracking, and data privacy. Show Notes: 00:02:17 Page Xray and Blacklight 00:07:27 While you interact with one web page, who else is harvesting your information? 00:14:13 Listen to which tracker Katherine used for about 10 minute, and promptly removed! 00:15:57 What is malvertising 00:18:55 W...

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Kyle Rankin, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's new flying camera, ad tech, and The Social Dilemma. 00:01:27 The spying based advertising business is on it's way out 00:05:55 The Amazon's April fools joke that is now a product 00:12:14 Doc's issue with 'Alexa' listening to you all the time 00:15:09 California's CCPA 00:16:14 Kyle's perspective on the Amazon dr...

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about TikTok and who controls your phone. Notes: 00:00:37 The new contraband - TikTok 00:04:34 Is the US wanting to "play" China and censor? 00:08:19 Will this become an ugly precedent? 00:15:37 We're concerned about the implementation of this ban 00:17:25 The Social Dilemma on Netflix 00:21:11 Your phone is your castle 00:...

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's Alexa for landlords program. Show notes: 00:00:23 For starters, let's begin with Normalization of Surveillance. 00:50:00 Amazon Alexa for landlords. 00:10:15 Is this really jus another way to discover new markets? 00:19:03 Doc the mechanic?! 00:27:49 If you're young do you really not care about privacy? 00:30:49 A couple of t...

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk remote work, survival, and Facebook. 00:04:09 The three key subjects we're discussing 00:05:41 First subject - Remote work 00:17:41 Covid19 forced remote work, but Petros misses one thing in particular 00:23:24 The increasing disparity between people who can and can't work remotely 00:32:24 Scott Galloway 00:39:30 Moving onto Facebook 00:40:...

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about Digital Convergence. Links mentioned: https://puri.sm/posts/investing-in-real-convergence/ Show notes: 00:00:32 Today we're talking about the idea of Convergence 00:04:36 Green on black Linux is COOL! --Kyle R. 00:07:01 The realization of adaptive design and how do others handle it 00:10:28 Law enforcement can subpoena your iClo...

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman continue their conversation with Dave Huseby, Hyperledger 's Security Maven, about user sovereignty and decentralization, open source culture, cryptography, respectful technology, and more. For more about Dave's projects, keep an eye on: https://vi.rs https://virs-group.slack.com https://medium.com/@dwh_3562 Show notes: 00:01:27 The importance of individual sovere...

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dave Huseby, Hyperledger 's Security Maven, about User Sovereignty and Decentralization, Hyperledger, blockchain and security. Special Guests: Dave Huseby and Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Bruce Schneier about contact tracing, digital identity, hacking, privacy, and regulation. Show notes: 0:00:25: Contact tracing apps 0:02:31: Contract tracing false positive and false negative 0:04:24: Contract tracing apps adoption rate 0:07:36: Katherine agrees apps should build more trust 0:11:44: The 2nd anniversary of the GDPR 0:13:31: Bruce talks abou...