David MacDonald

My name is Dave. I make things. Music, podcasts, websites, gadgets, things. My views are my own. At least since the brainwashing. | http://t.co/Pb9uruQCeZ

Klinghoffer Cancellation Thoughts

This week, the New York Metropolitan Opera and general manager Peter Gelb cancelled simulcasts of John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer.

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Creative People Say No

A Hungarian psychology professor once wrote to famous creators asking them to be interviewed for a book he was writing.

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Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away…

I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement. I am a pretty unlikely…

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The Gadget and the Burn

An excerpt from The Man Who Sold the Moon

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