One of the virtues (and curses) of early early morning radio is that one can hear about stories in depth. If you're multitasking, it's worth listening to the Smart City interviews with Doug Thomas, USC professor and author of Hacker Culture who has lately been looking at education, cultural narrative, and technology with John Seely Brown of PARC fame; and with Mimi Ito, a cultural anthroplogist who's worked for a number of Silicon Valley companies and author of a book on mobile phones in Japanese life.