Jon Lebkowsky writes about culture, technology, media, sustainability and other topics for various publications, and has been blogging regularly since 2000. He's an acknowledged authority on social media and online community. He consults with businesses and nonprofits on web strategy and social technology through Social Web Strategies, a consulting partnership with David Armistead.

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"Jon is a well known and respected professional and member of the community. He's been around a long time and has been a consistant participant in many of the important developments on the Net. He is able to execute very professionally while maintaining a very high social and moral view. And almost most importantly, he always has a sense of humor. ;-)" – Joi Ito "Jon is one of the first that we call upon when we need insights into the Internet and beyond. He is one of the few that I have met who is able to blend both vision and practicality in the same sentence." – Wayne Pethrick, The Futures Lab. "Jon one of the most sincere people I have ever met on the WWW...and the most connected to boot. His knowledge of the technology he uses is second only to the passion he has for the work he does. The best thing about Jon is that he is always up for a challenge even when he doesn't have the time...thanks, Jon." – Dean McCall, President and CEO, Salsa.Net "Jon is the type of person who has the professional integrity to tell you what you really need to hear, not necessarily what he thinks you want to hear. Companies who wish to tackle complex issues with an honest assessment and a thoughtful plan of action will value his expertise. I recommend Jon without reservation" – David Deans "I've collaborated with directly and indirectly on a variety of initiatives over the last few years to technically empower the grassroots and build real democracy. I've found Jon to be an highly motivated knowledgable, and effective organizer and coordinator in every case, and can attest to the quality of technical "product" his group delivered in the form of online tools and applications." – Kit Robinson Jon was an engaged student of mine at The University of Texas and, later, a correspondent and colleague in various Internet communities and Web projects. His grasp of Web technologies and their practical uses as well as prospective new impacts is very advanced. He can (and does) engage in theorizing at the highest level, but he also exhibits the refreshing ability to actually produce results in the world of the Internet. – Rod Bell

Books

Contributor to Worldchanging, A Guide to the 21st Century

Interviewed by Suzanne Stefanac, author of Dispatches from Blogistan: A travel guide for the modern blogger

Interviewed in Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture by David Kline, Dan Burstein, Arne J. De Keijzer (Editor), Paul Berger (Editor)

Extreme Democracy, co-edited with Mitch Ratcliffe

Edited the Consciousness subdomain in The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

Featured in GenX Reader, edited by Douglas Rushkoff

Featured in CyberRevolution, edited by Yoshihiro Kaneda, Japan

essays

Keeping It Together: You mean open source hasn't saved the world yet?, in the Austin Chronicle, March 1, 2007.

The Future of Affinity, based on a presentation to the Central Texas World Future Society.

2001 Blues in Rewired

A Few Points about Online Activism in the March '99 issue of the UK journal Cybersociology

ZapSpace, published as A Fistful of DOS in the Australian magazine 21C

The Cyborganic Path from the April '97 issue of CMC Magazine

Essay: Are We a Nation? We Are Devo in The Ethical Spectacle.

Fiction that Bleeds Truth!

articles

Worldchanging Columns and Posts

The Serious Play in Saving the World, in the Austin Chronicle, April 2008.

In Your Facebook in the Austin Chronicle, February 2008.

The Future of Affinity: Living Networks with Social Software, Presented to the CenTex Chapter of the World Future Society, November 18, 2004.

We Blog! Edited version originally appeared in the February 28, 2003 issue of Austin Chronicle as A Corner in Cyberspace Turned Blog Party.

Being Green in 2001, Whole Earth, summer 2001 (edited by Bruce Sterling)

Little Nemo in Slumberland (bOING bOING, February 1998)

Technopolitics, a 1997 essay on cyberactivism originally appearing in the Australian magazine 21C.

Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates!: 1998 Top Nine List from the Austin Chronicle!

Dungeons and Draggin's: a look at the Ultima Online phenomenon

"We Do Cool Things": a profile of Austin's George Sanger, aka The Fatman, and Team Fat

The Opera Ain't Over 'til the Cyber Lady Sings: Honoria in Ciberspazio (Austin Chronicle, November 1997)

Shout Spamalam! The Austin Spam Suit

Election Notes 2000

Who Are You? Who Owns You? A consideration of Amazon's privacy policy.

Nodal Politics

11.25.96 Freewheelin' in Austin

1.7.97 Cyberdawgs and CyberRights: EFF-Austin

2.25.97 VR in 3Space: Brian Park

1.28.97 Going Native in Cyberspace: Bob Anderson

3.25.97 A Parisian Spring in Austin: Joseph Rowe and Catherine Braslavsky

4.22.97 On a Rock and Roll Firetruck: Shawn Phillips

Monsters from the Id: read the article and check out the Amazon list

interviews

Clay Shirky, interviewed for Worldchanging

B.J. Stanbery of Heliovolt, interviewed for Worldchanging

David Isenberg on Freedom to Connect, interviewed for Worldchanging

Bruce Sterling State of the World Conversation, 2008

Conversation with Denise Caruso at the WELL's Inkwell forum, discussing her book, Intervention.

Conversation with David Weinberger at the WELL's Inkwell forum, discussing his book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2007

Bruce Sterling and "Joe Lebkowsky" at SXSW Interactive.

Video interview conducted by Steve O'Keefe at his Authorviews site, discussing the book Extreme Democracy. "The video is long enough for a brief reflection on how the Howard Dean campaign used the net -- that's the origin of this book. The destination? The Internet has become the volunteer coordinater and cash machine fueling modern political campaigns."

Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2006

Annual interview with Bruce Sterling, 2005

Interview with Ken Goffman (R.U. Sirius), author of Counterculture through the Ages.

A discussion with my colleagues at WorldChanging.com

Interview with Christian Crumlish, author of The Power of Many

Interview with Dr. James White, University of Colorado, on global climate change. This interview was part of the research for "Being Green in 2001," published in Whole Earth Review

January 2004 discussion with Bruce Sterling on The WELL

Interview with David Weinberger for SXSW Interactive Conference's Tech Report

Discussion with Bruce Sterling at The WELL, January 3 - 17, 2003.

Jon L. interviewed by Adam Powell (5/13/2002)

jonl interviewed by R. U. Sirius (A version of this interview appeared in The Austin Chronicle)

Conversation with Bruce Sterling at the WELL's Inkwell.vue Forum

Interview with R.U. Sirius at CTHEORY

Interview conducted by Yoshihiro Kaneda in conjunction with the publication in Japan, in the book CyberRevolution, the essay "Inforeal."

Interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone.

No Stone Untenured: May '98 Interview with Sandy Stone

Bruce Sterling interview for bOING bOING #9

The Tedium is the Message, Assholes: Interview (for AltX) with R.U. Sirius and St. Jude

Don't Believe the Hype (Austin Digerati Roundtable published January 28)

Why We Listen to What They Say: Interview with Doug Rushkoff

Interviews with
Doug Block and Michael Wolff

Projecting the 21st Century: An Interview with Gary Chapman

Information Junkie, an interview with Reva Basch (Researching Online for Dummies)

Webb on the Web

Wired to Virtual Reality: Interview with Howard Rheingold

Interview with Carla Sinclair, author of Signal to Noise

Making Movies on Cyber Location: an interview with director Doug Block (Austin Chronicle, February 1998)

Untangling the Web: interview with Gene Crick of MAIN and Sue Beckwith of Austin Freenet

reviews

Review of Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, in Whole Earth Magazine.

Cyber Top Ten for 1997 (Austin Chronicle, December 1997)