By The Editor
The New Disruptors is a podcast hosted by your faithful editor, Glenn Fleishman, produced by The Magazine, and part of the Boing Boing family of podcasts. We include streaming audio players and links to our episodes in each issue of The Magazine, as the people we interviewed are closely aligned with the features you find in this publication.
55: The Zine Machine Lives: Boing Boing at XOXO
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From December 26, 2013. In September 2013, I interviewed at the XOXO conference and festival the four lead editors of Boing Boing, an online, thriving descendent of zine culture that is one of the most popular blogs on the Internet. For the day after Christmas, it seems appropriate to celebrate generosity and gift culture with Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin.
As with all the sessions at XOXO, the presentation is Creative Commons licensed, and I separately obtained permission from Andy Baio and Andy McMillan. Thanks, too, to Mike Gebhardt and Betty Farrier of brytCAST.com, the folks who videotaped throughout XOXO 2012 and 2013, for providing the high-quality audio file.
You can watch the entire session as video, too, on YouTube. To follow along with some of the early part of the interview, as I introduce the editors, you can view this PDF.
54: Wait a Cotton-Picking Minute with Jay Fanelli and Nathan Peretic
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From December 19, 2013. Jay Fanelli and Nathan Peretic know how to go it on their own. They’ve done it not just once, not just twice, but now three times. They formed the interactive-services company Full Stop Interactive, out of which United Pixelworkers was formed, a company that produces fine wearable merchandise. And United Pixelworkers gave birth to Cotton Bureau, a site that uses crowdfunding to pick which shirts should get printed. Now they’re doubling down and focusing entirely on the T-shirt and merchandise businesses.
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