The New Market Machines Radio

Musical interlude: Ramblin' man tunes. Vô imbolá!

You would think that transitioning from northern hemisphere fall to southern hemisphere spring woul get easy after the first few times you do it, but it always takes a psychic toll. Since we are out rustling up my Brazilian resident visa today, enjoy a nostalgic musical interlude, in which I recreate my college DJ days with a set of songs that, for me, define the Brooklyn-B-burg-East Village axis of evolution.

 The title is a corporate communications executive's succinct summary of the risks and opportunities that blogging poses for the business organization in the age of information warfare:  Delivery of the authorized message through authorized channels is no longer effective when so many wicked messengers "are unauthorized, and they can act."
 
First tech rehearsal of a new segment, tentatively titled "Pod People": clips and commentary from the multimedia stream of consciousness, abused with awful punk-rock mixology.

In this maiden 'cast: The BBC's Kafkaesque utopianism; IBM's global director of corporate communications on the risks and opportunities of media democracy, both inside and outside the firewall; a gimlet-eyed CWA organizer on reforming corporate media, from within and from without; DJ Mala Yerba on a public service media campaign from Mexico's elections commission; and election monitors describe the scene in the Zocalo in Mexico City on July 2. Plus the usual mumbling, and Heights-themed shoutout.