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5 Minutes on The Verge: Irin Carmon


Irin Carmon is a journalist and commentator whose work has appeared in publications including Jezebel and Salon, where she’s a staff writer. She was kind enough to take five minutes (give or take) to talk to me about the panel she moderated at SXSW, “Curing a Rage Headache: Internet Drama & Activism,” as well as the general theme of changing the world in the age of trolls. Her most recent article for Salon, “White Male Nerd Culture’s Last Stand,” addresses the ways that the conference has tried to encourage diversity “in a still-segregated world.”

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5 Minutes on The Verge: Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music

Peter Kirn is a composer / musician, media artist, educator, technology writer, and the creator and editor of one of our favorite websites, Create Digital Music. When not busy making music (and writing about it for various publications), he’s somehow found time to author Real World Digital Audio from Peachpit Press and edit our current favorite airport read, Keyboard Presents: the Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (Backbeat). We’d like to thank him from taking time from his current move to Berlin to answer a few questions.

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5 Minutes on The Verge: R.U. Sirius

Ken “R. U. Sirius” Goffman first gained substantial notoriety as the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Mondo 2000 in 1989. Since then, he’s been in movies, a band (Mondo Vanilli), podcasts, and authored a number of books (including Counterculture Through the Ages and Design for Dying with Timothy Leary). He also ran for president in 2000 as the candidate for The Revolution Party — sadly, he lost. Currently you can find him at Acceler8or, a website that bills itself as “your thoroughfare to all the best transhumanist bits and bytes, with a side order of strangeness and charm.”

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