Opting Out
Cathy Brooks
Cathy has spent more than two decades working in and around media and communications. She’s currently wearing the mantle of Executive Producer for a very exciting Seesmic.…
Ev Williams
A Nebraskan farm boy turned serial entrepreneur, Ev Williams has founded several successful Internet companies. Williams got his start at Pyra Labs, which built Blogger, and was…
Ben Brown
Ben Brown, the Internet Rockstar is best known for cofounding the social networking site Consumating and coining the term Google Bomb. This University of Maryland dropout left…
Jonathan Coulton
Jonathan Coulton went from high school marching band snare drummer to college a cappella singer to software developer. Jonathan eventually quit his programming gig to do music…
Nick Douglas
Satirist and writer Nick Douglas is best known for his stint as editor of Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip blog.
Jane McGonigal
Dr. Jane McGonigal is a game designer and researcher who specializes in pervasive and alternate reality games. Jane’s work has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum…
Guests: Cathy Brooks, Ev Williams, Ben Brown, Jonathan Coulton, Nick Douglas, Jane McGonigal and Sean Nelson
March 18th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Mike Kuniavsky sadly couldn’t make it to Austin for SXSW this year. He inspired our question though by quoting from Rosalyn Wiseman’s book Queen Bees & Wannabees about teenaged girls: “There are alphas, betas who want to be alphas and gammas who opt out.”
What does it mean to be someone who opts out?