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  • Interview with Geert Lovink

    Internet-famous activist and media theorist Geert Lovink just did an email interview with me about Two Bits.
    The questions were sharp and some of the very best ones I’ve been asked.   The original is at Networked Cultures, but I’ve reposted it here as well.

    On the Culture of Free Software
    Interview with Christopher Kelty
    By Geert Lovink
    It is still […]

  • Inside Higher Ed on Two Bits

    Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Ed has just published a very nice review of the Two Bits (”It’s all Geek to Me”).
    Particularly clever is his distinction between nerd and geek:
    We have, by contemporary standards, a mixed marriage, for I am a nerd, while my wife is a geek. A good thing no kids […]

  • Two Bit Book Blog Processing Modulation Extravaganza 2008

    I’m not a celebrity, but I play one on the famous internet.
    This year at Harvard, I managed to fall in with a bad crowd: youth who have grown up entirely in the Internet era. They took my classes, they invited me to their absurd and wonderful conference, they’ve been making me perform […]

  • Amazon, WTF? Discuss.

    Since this blog is mirrored by Amazon on the book’s page, courtesy of Amazon Connect (thanks Dustin, for pointing it out!), I thought I would just say WTF?
    Amazon is so freaking mysterious to me. For the weeks and months before the book was available the price dropped, and dropped, to the point where […]

  • Upcoming Talks in Cambridge, MA

    I’m giving two presentations about the book in Cambridge before I leave for the year.
    The first will be at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society’s lunch series. I’ve been hanging out at the Berkman Center off and on this year, and I’m eager to hear from the smart people who hang out there. […]

  • It’s a book! Two Bits

    from Savage Minds…
    So I have an announcement: I have written, and published, A Book. I know that Savage Minds readers harbor the suspicion that we are all just doing this gig until someone pulls the curtain back and we have to dust off our barista aprons and work for a living, but I am […]

  • They’rrre Heeeeere!

    A big box of books is sitting on my desk this morning.  They look fantastic. I just needed to say it to someone cause there’s no one else around here…

  • Covers and postcards

    Books are on their way…
    I have covers, and postcards (Front and Back) and flyers….

  • Two Bits at Northeastern

    I just managed to cross the river from my current abode to give a talk at Northeastern, courtesy of the Consortium on Technology and Society.
    A small but very enthusiastic crowd received the talk very well, with great questions. One thing the book doesn’t address upfront, but which is perpetually the most obvious question is […]

  • Two Bits at CRCS

    I gave a talk in November at the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society. They’ve archived the video, which isn’t superb quality, but it means you can’t see my face clearly, which is probably a good thing.

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