With the release of The King In Yellow this March, their first new album in 16 years, the Dead Milkmen have jumped from the period of cassettes and CD Walkmans into the era of iTunes and Facebook fans. Band drummer Dean Sabatino recently took some time to talk to us about this leap, along with the Tea Party, the RIAA, and lead singer Rodney Linderman’s rant on vinyl records.

I caught up with Dr. Chorost recently in his adopted hometown of Washington, D.C., fresh on the heels of the February 15th launch of World Wide Mind. We had a chance to explore some of the themes introduced in the book, and dig a little deeper into Chorost’s vision for how human communication might function if we were able to transmit emotional information and memories at the speed of the Internet.

AppMuse, a company that aims to develop free quotes and find pre-scanned developers for people with an app idea, was one of the companies in the Mobile Apps Showcase at this year’s Macworld. Their CEO, Mark Stetler, took the time to chat with me about some of the trends he’s been he’s been seeing in the creation of iPhone apps from the standpoint of a man who has certainly been introduced to a lot of them.

Shonen Knife knows how to “give the people what they want,” as The Kinks would sing. Seven albums in ten years. Worldwide tours to promote almost every release. Daily Tweets. Yes, Tweets. YouTube. It’s a different world for bands these days, in which technology brings them closer than ever to their fan-base. So close, in fact, that the women of Shonen Knife were willing to take some time before their recent Buffalo show to talk to me about their use of Apple products and social media.

Kevin Murphy is a writer, comedian, and musician perhaps best known for his skill in making fun of movies as part of Rifftrax and voicing Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I first interviewed him about his love of film and the future of digital video in 2003, which to give you some perspective, was before YouTube existed. Catching up with Mr. Murphy as he prepares for a Rifftrax Live! show on October 28th and co-hosting a w00tstock concert on Halloween, we had a chance to further our discussion on the state of the digital arts.

After all of the information announced about the iPhone 4 in Steve Jobs’ WWDC Keynote, there was certainly a lot to wonder about in terms of the impact of the iPhone’s new camera, video editing, and FaceTime capabilities. Peter Csathy—CEO of the video solutions company Sorenson Media—was just the man to offer some insight into the new features Apple announced.

As the good folks over at Gamertell reported today, it’s now official; Telltale Games has begun releasing their entire game catalog on the Macintosh. We had the opportunity to speak with Telltale CEO, director and founder Dan Connors about why they’re now embracing the Mac, and with designer/programmer Mark Darin about his work on Tales of Monkey Island. Video of the various games after the break.

Scott Steinberg, a technology expert and publisher of Digital Trends, always has interesting things to say about all things technology. So, we decided we’d ask him his thoughts on what’s going to happen closer to the end of this month with the Apple tablet. Between pricing strategies and features, Scott provided some very interesting insight into what Apple may be thinking at this point in time.

Ari Weinstein—commonly found around the internet as AriX—is the developer behind iJailBreak, an extremely popular jailbreaking tool used on the iPhones and iPod touch. Working with the Chronic Dev Team helped Ari learn a lot about “hacking” iPhones, and even helped lead to a story about him the Wall Street Journal. While he’s still only in high school, he does have more projects up his sleeve, and we recently had the opportunity to talk to him about them.

Kyle Van Essen of Vibealicious recently made quite a name for himself and his application, Notify, in the Mac and Objective-C development space. With thousands of users behind Notifiy 1.x, a GMail notifier, Kyle has recently been undergoing a complete rewrite of the application. In doing so, he has been very active in voicing his concerns about the current state of paid versus free software and how much time it takes to create a beautiful piece of software.