Ken Jordan's Friends

Bio

Ken Jordan is publisher and executive producer of the Evolver and Reality Sandwich. He has been an online pioneer since leading the 1995 launch of the award-winning SonicNet.com, the web's first multimedia music zine and digital music store, which later became a property of MTV. He has written for Wired, Index, and Paris Review, among other publications. He is co-author of the influential white paper "The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-Generation Internet;" editor of Planetwork Journal; he collaborated with the legendary playwright and director Richard Foreman on Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater (Pantheon, 1992), and is co-editor of the anthology Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality
(W.W. Norton, 2001). He has written for Wired, Paris Review, Index, and First Monday, among other publications. He is co-editor of Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age.

Skills and talents

I know a lot about how to architect, design and build websites; have done a good amount of writing and editorial work; spent years in the PR and marketing trenches; done my share of community organizing; worked quite a bit with foundations; am good at branding.

Interests

Alternative Economics, Computer History, Digital Identity, Expermental Theater, Network Theory, Poetry, Shamanism, Sixties Counterculture

What I'm Reading

The Wealth of Networks, by Yochai Benkler; Shamanism, by Mircea Eliade; Reality, by Peter Kingsley

What I'm Listening To

Sound Unbound, by DJ Spooky; Duke Ellington; Gang Gang Dance; Sheb i Sabah

Movies I've Seen Recently

Holy Mountain; Who Killed the Electric Car?

Websites I'm Into

World Changing, Alternet, GNN, Identity Woman

Education

High school

Putney School, Putney, VT

College

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Additional study

Allen Ginsberg's 12th Street apartment; Richard Foreman's Wooster Street loft