We've been fans of Steven Johnson ever since his Feedmag.com days of the late '90s, and Interface Culture, his seminal book on computer user interfaces. (Interface Culture is worth revisiting now, especially for its chapter on the simple hyperlink, the building block of blogs.) His latest book, The Ghost Map, chronicles a pivotal outbreak of cholera in 1854 London, and is our featured book of the month at books.typepad.com.
Yesterday Anil Dash and I had the pleasure of talking with Steven about his new book, life in mid-19th century London, life in early 21st century Brooklyn, and his new startup, Outside.in, a site that lets you share and discover what's happening in your neighborhood. Steven blogs on TypePad, of course, at stevenberlinjohnson.com.
You can listen to the conversation here, or grab the MP3 file directly.
