Listener comments!

Mon. 4/13/09 7:03pm From: Sean Daily

First comment! Woo hoo!

Mon. 4/13/09 7:04pm From: Propaganda Anonymous

Hola Doug. Listening now. Prop!

Mon. 4/13/09 7:07pm From: Sean Daily

Shut up, you darned commie, and suck from the teat of your capitalist overlord! You're know better to apply that damned... LOGIC to the word of your betters!

Mon. 4/13/09 7:16pm From: Shawn Kittelsen

It's unfortunate that Doug's fellow Gen X-er, our beloved Prez Obama, seems to have missed—and dismissed—the valuable role psychedelics played in the rise of Internet culture during his web town hall a few weeks ago.

Mon. 4/13/09 7:17pm From: Propaganda Anonymous

Hi Sean!

Mon. 4/13/09 7:20pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Hi all. Guest Stephen Burke, our Real Person Doing Real Things guest is coming up. Any questions about local currency? Stephen runs a local music store in Ithica NY called Small World Music.

Mon. 4/13/09 7:23pm From: Sean Daily

Yes, Dave, a request: Please go slow. I'm still trying to wrap my head around local, as opposed to national, currency.

Mon. 4/13/09 7:24pm From: Shawn Kittelsen

PTV song request for the next break—"Higher & Higher"

Mon. 4/13/09 7:26pm From: Brian Oregon

Are local currency transactions taxed like Fed Reserve Note transactions?

Mon. 4/13/09 7:27pm From: VMM

What are the possible down sides of local currency? They tried it here in Lawrence, KS and it was a real failure. Nobody used it etc..

Mon. 4/13/09 7:29pm From: Brian Oregon

I'm interested in combining a local currency with a microlending bank. For instance, the bank could loan Fed Notes to people starting a micro business, but require payback to some extent in local currency, so the loan recipient would have to transact to some extent in the local currency. Anything like that in Ithaca?

Mon. 4/13/09 7:29pm From: Legba

Can you tell us more about the LAwerence, KS experiment?

Mon. 4/13/09 7:30pm From: ?

I'm not real familiar with it - it occurred before I moved there. I know a city manager introduced it and nobody used it. It was a mostly a matter of people not knowing where to use it, how to get it, how to spread the word that it existed etc..

Mon. 4/13/09 7:34pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Guest Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing up next!

Mon. 4/13/09 7:35pm From: Brian Oregon

One strategy to generate use is to produce a newsletter that tells people where they can be used. I think Stephen said they do that in Ithaca and they do it in the Columbia Gorge currency "river hours" in northern Oregon/southern Washington.

Mon. 4/13/09 7:37pm From: VMM

Sounds like a good idea. I'd love to find a way to reintroduce this. Here's a link for those who are interested on why it failed here: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2003/nov/03/the_real/

Mon. 4/13/09 7:42pm From: Brian Oregon

David &/or Douglas -- I have been checking the mediasquat forums but don't find anything like ongoing discussions, just random comments with an occasional response. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Mon. 4/13/09 7:43pm From: Legba Carrefour, Media Squat producer

Hey we're going to roll out more content there in the future. We take bottom up literally. But expect a lot more there soon :-)

Mon. 4/13/09 7:47pm From: Brian Oregon

For local currency info (including historical examples) and an overview of how banking works, etc., see "Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender" by Thomas Greco. (I've read about half way through.)

Mon. 4/13/09 7:48pm From: David @ The Media Squat

Brian, there are also ongoing discussions at rushkoff.om, click on forums

Mon. 4/13/09 7:49pm From: VMM

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely check that one out. Same for the forums.

Mon. 4/13/09 11:16pm From: dtgt

Shawn, neither Rushkoff nor Obama are GenXers. They are both part of Generation Jones--born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Xers. Give it a google; the whole GenJones thang is getting a lot of big-time media play.

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