I'm pleased to post the second episode of the gnovis podcast, a casual interview with Howard Rheingold, chatting with gnovis' Nicole Guerra, CCT student Stewart Geiger, and CCT Adjunct Professor Garrison LeMasters.

In this lively conversation, Rheingold discusses topics ranging from text-messaging to journalism, and interdisciplinary scholarship to science fiction. His comments on academia offer yet another perspective on the debate we had on the gnovis blog earlier this year, in these two posts: The Hermetic Reality of "Higher Learning" and Are Bloggers the new Public Intellectuals?.

Professor Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs, lectures at Stanford and Berkley and is one of the world's foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. He visited Georgetown University earlier this week to speak to the CCT program's introductory class for new students.

Learn more about our guest at www.smartmobs.com and www.rheingold.com.