As I write this, the DowJones is down 600 points, largely in reaction to the House defeating the federal bailout of the credit industry. What should we think and do… Read the rest of the article: Bail In or Bail Out?

I'm interested in what people think of this browser approach and Firefox plugin, Hyperwords, now in version 5.0 There's both a user-driven version, demonstrated above, as well as a client-side… Read the rest of the article: Hyperwords.net

When I first came online at BB, a few people kindly asked for me to share some of what it was like to play keyboards for Psychic TV. It was… Read the rest of the article: Heaven is Her/e: Genesis Goes Further Still

Meanwhile, among the most interesting and intelligent stuff I've received this week are three new books by some guys who I'd immediately like to invite to join an imagined secret… Read the rest of the article: Great Books by Men

I just got this email from John Langley, the guy who made the uber-reality show Cops. I see it as an acknowledgement of all of us who tend to read… Read the rest of the article: What if he'd called it PIGS?

There are three main relationships kids have to gaming, and they seem to correspond to three main relationships people have to culture. A kid initially plays a game the way… Read the rest of the article: Play, Cheat, Program

Okay, then. Going 'meta' on the participatory thing, I'm making an open appeal for people to participate in the process through [which] I attempt to produce some participatory media. Now… Read the rest of the article: My– *Our* BoingBoing Future

I'm teaching at NYU's ITP this semester – just one course called Narrative Lab, where we look at the way the elements of story change for interactive media. It's fun… Read the rest of the article: Lamps Everywhere

I just got an email from Christopher Lydon, with a link to his audio interview with Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian post-Marxist philosopher and Lacanian scholar whose monologues are as refreshing… Read the rest of the article: Speaking of Zizek

If I were ever invited to join a secret cabal of culturally wise writers – the kind of club where you'd find Erik Davis, Douglas Wolk, Jonathan Lethem, or Luc… Read the rest of the article: Great Books By Women

So here's my first blatant personal plug: my first comic series, Testament, has just been fully collected in four trade paperback volumes by DC/Vertigo. It's as close to an exercise… Read the rest of the article: Testament, My Testament

I'm getting deluged with email from people who are involved in projects resonant with some of the "open source" posts I've done so far. Some of them are really cool.… Read the rest of the article: Open Source Everything

I did a really fun interview with (my favorite indie comic) Fart Party creator Julia Wertz this week, and she posted it on her blog simultaneously with its publication in… Read the rest of the article: Fart Party Interview

Everyone seems to want to know about the economy these days, so we may as well go there. It's as great an example as any of a program that not… Read the rest of the article: Print Your Own Money

I played with Android yesterday. I don't gush over products. At least not in years. But this one makes me feel a bit like I did when I got my… Read the rest of the article: Android

I'll be making two kinds of posts over the next two weeks. The first are meant to explain the little introduction I wrote earlier today, and expand on the many… Read the rest of the article: Open Source Democracy

I, Douglas Rushkoff, happily mutated in the late-1980's, do hereby report for duty. I believe that the reality in which we live is largely if not entirely hackable. We have… Read the rest of the article: Rushkoff Here