The New Market Machines Radio

Indymedia Brazil and the CC mailing lists boil with protest over the June launch of the iCommons project in Brazil. I translate.

Redmond controls the media moment; barring dissenters; Red Zone & Green Zone assumptions; portraits of the CC user; participatory culture in a five-star hotel?

Musical interludes: Lenine, "O Dia Que Faremos Contato"; Hermeto Pascoal, "Fica Mal Com Deus." Special guest appearance by the ghost of D. Boon.  

Voices from the Brazucosphere: The new Lacerdas in action; TV news redeems itself, says Mino Carta; Joi Ito parachutes in to the Zona Sul; The World Negotiation Forum fills São Paulo with gurus, each with a list of six easy to remember principles that they recite over and over and over and over ... ; Underestimating the povão; "This country for sale or rent!"; plus barking dogs, hammering handymen, and Rita Lee: "When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around."

Gonzagão on technological and economic change, and eerie signals from Recife. Neuza bugs the cable guy. The G20 meets in Rio de Janeiro. Brutal layovers as Varig folds. Innovations in tech tariff avoidance. Campaign dicky tricks and churrasco do prefeito: "Pork versus where's the beef?"

And on "The Pod People," measuring the area of the Twilight Zone: Hector Tovar of the Los Angeles Times from Mexico City, and Dave Weinberger on social network and organizational analysis, from the Syndicate conference, with audio marginalia.

And how I felt five years ago to the day, in Lower East Sidese.

One correction: The interview with Mr. Gomes is from The New Communications Review.

The final Pod People pilot episode before we leave on a jet plane for Brazil.

In this edition:

1. How to take your bazooka along when you fly
2. Get your piping hot tamales here: The little tramp of Mexico City cries Viva Zapata!
   
3. The world gets its first C-level blog czar
   
4. Mistrusted as a flack but beloved as a blogger
5. The future of advertising after the Cluetrain Revolution
6. The op-ed as premium podcast material: paying for mere opinion
7. Playboy suffers culture shock in Indonesia

Incidental music: Captain Beefheart, Dalis Car, Lou Reed, Satellite of Love

See if you can tell where I resumed recorded after running up and down four flights of stairs to carry up 30 kg of cat food to keep the beast happy while we're gone.

In this episode:

1. BusinessWeek as podcaster: the good, the bad and the lazy
2. On the scene in Mexico
3. Coke, Pepsi and pesticide: a season in public relations hell
4. The Engines of Our Ingenuity, il miglior fabbro
5. An Army of Davids debated at the Cato Institute: beer, content and the social Gospels
   
6. A Mexico City Mr. Natural solves the problem of democracy and defeats the evil Judge Engaña-Bobos.
7. The International Monetary Fund surrenders without a shot to Raul Seixas and Lampião
   

Featured this week: Sony buys Grouper; quotable snips and snaps from the Syndicate Conference not the "syndication" conference, as our boob of announcer says several times); and how search engine motorists can get the data miners off their tail. Plus my butthead of a neighbor on bongos and the Tasty-Freeze ice cream theme.

Incidental music: Tom Tom Club, Wordy Rappinghood

Musical interlude: Timbalada, U-Maracatú