Get Illuminated

The granddaddy of blogs, BoingBoing, has a new podcast feed for itunes called Get Illuminated, and features interviews with "creative people in fringe culture". Should be really good. The first interview is with Doug Rushkoff, who wrote about a new 'renaissance' fuelled by technology. I've used that analogy in a presentation about the many changes we're seeing in the advertising and marketing industry, and how we may see a new type of agency emerge (perhaps a Media Arts agency). As someone who is just old enough to have lived the 'Third Wave' revolution of the mid-eighties, it's worth listening to Rushkoff's themes to see how they parlay into advertising. You can download a speech he gave to pop tech in 2005 at IT Conversations.