Cory Doctorow

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• Review: Makers

  
  The Geeky Librarian — Authority: 111
  Cory Doctorow’s latest, Makers is a loving tribute to mad invention and the people responsible for it.  It reminds me a lot of Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano with its world run by engineers scenario.  But unlike that dystopian view Makers is instead about the sheer joy of creation. But this is not a purely ...
  6 days ago

• Making new work in digital English studies

  
  digital digs — Authority: 465
  Im bringing together a couple things Ive been reading. First heres a couple dog bites man stories: in Inside Higher Ed a report regarding the sharp decline of tenure-line jobs in English,  an article in the NY Times on new education programs to draw students into digital jobs, an interview in Edutopia ...
  6 days ago

• Cory Doctorow’s Makers Tile Game

  
  Grasping for the Wind — Authority: 132
  Tor.com has made the Maker’s Tile Game shareable and embeddable in your blog , like so: Read all of Makers online at Tor.com. Related posts: Free Fiction: Cory Doctorow’s Makers Free Fiction: Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow on Creative Commons Licenses
  1 week ago

• Celentano, per gli americani ha scoperto il “rap”

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 147
  Adriano Celentano varca l’Oceano osannato dai rapper . Lo comunica l’agenzia Ansa. “Gli americani ne sono sicuri: a inventare il rap – ante litteram – è stato Adriano Celentano e precisamente con la sua ‘ Prisencolinesinanciusol ‘, canzone del 1972, il cui testo si basava su un vocabolario di sua ...
  1 week ago

• Video of My Recent Interview with Cory Doctorow

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 443
  My friend Dan has finally finished the herculean task of uploading an edited and high resolution video of my recent interview with Cory Doctorow during the final stop of his MAKERS book tour at Philcon . Dan shot this video on his new HD flip that he bought for the occasion while I conducted the interview. He ...
  1 week ago

• Cory Doctorow: Makers ~ Free eBook!

  
  The Naughty Bits — Authority: 139
  Cory Doctorow ~ Makers Cory finally released his latest in a free eBook version off his website click the link and read away.
  1 week ago

• Paul Carr gives away e-book free on TechCrunch, tweaks European e-publisher Hachette

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Over on TechCrunch, Paul Carr has posted a piece called “NSFW: Free as in ‘my publisher will disown me after I pirate my book on TechCrunch’” . (“NSFW” seems to be the column name; the content of this particular column seems to be entirely SFW, with the possible exception of the word “whore”.) Carr ...
  1 week ago

• Doctorow’s Makers available as e-book, web appbook

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Cory Doctorow’s latest book, Makers , is available for free download in a number of e-book formats under Doctorow’s usual Creative Commons license terms. (I gather it has been for a while.) One of the available versions is a Webkit web appbook that Peter Wayner created for the iPhone (or other small-screen ...
  1 week ago

• Whuffie: Vamsi Sistla

  
  Netizen — Authority: 129
  Earlier I was at the first ever Whuffie MeetUp in New York City. If you are like me, you are also new to the word and concept. Several months back I met an Indian from Canada at the NY Tech MeetUp. We exchanged cards. Recently he emailed me and introduced to Vamsi Sistla over email. I was to meet Vamsi on ...
  1 week ago

• Now Thats What I Call Mystique

  
  Stumbling the Walk — Authority: 121
  When I hear the word "Mystique" I think of the gorgeous villain popularized by Rebecca Romjin in the X-Men movies . But Im kind of geeky that way, especially when it comes to cool stuff like sexy, blue-skinned, shapeshifting mercenaries who pack heavy weapons overlapping into my thoughts about the real world. ...
  1 week ago

• Books! Music! Podcasts! The Mur Gift Guide!

  
  The Murverse — Authority: 109
  One thing that’s been awesome about podcasting is I’ve met so many people who are vastly more creative than I am. Several of them have new products out in the past couple of months, and I thought I’d showcase them here – you get great holiday gifts, and my friends get supported. We all win! Music- I am a ...
  1 week ago

• Too Much Time On My Hands

  
  Tor/Forge's Blog — Authority: 422
  By Cory Doctorow This column was originally written for MAKE Magazine in late 2008. I became a dad in February 2008—during the run-up to The Day, I worked my butt off, getting as much work in the can as I could before my life got taken over by the fruit of my loins. All that hard work paid off. One day, I ...
  1 week ago

• “In the Nick of Time” – Free 300+ Page Holiday Sampler of Bestselling Books!

  
  J.C. Hutchins: New Fiction And Author Updates — Authority: 118
  Books make terrific holiday gifts, but finding those perfect books for friends and family is always a challenge. If only we could flip through those books’ pages on our schedule. If only if the bookstore could come to us. That’s the idea behind this In the Nick of Time! holiday sampler PDF. Inside are excerpts ...
  1 week ago

• Cory Doctorow Speaks in Second Life

  
  Second Tense — Authority: 109
  Short post - a couple of pictures I took from Cory Doctorow speaking in Second Life, interviewed by Mitch Wagner on Copper Robot, hosted by World2Worlds.
  1 week ago

• Cory Doctorow Sets the Photographic Record Straight

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 570
  In our posting about Cory Doctorows second article in Publishers Weekly (about his Lovers Quarrel with Audio ) we found an appropriate illustration, a baby clapping hands over ears (below). Doctorow has gone one better and sent us a photo of himself (r.) in the same pose. Thanks, Cory! Just to summarize, in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cory Doctorows Lovers Quarrel with Audio

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 570
  Last month we reported that Cory Doctorow (thats not he at the right) had launched a monthly column in Publishers Weekly dedicated to monitoring his venture into book publishing. "Doctorow, whose brash and sometimes subversive-sounding publishing strategies have made him a folk hero to his fans and generated ...
  2 weeks ago

• ★ Audiobooks and DRM

  
  This Writing Life: Ian Hocking — Authority: 111
  For those of you who don’t know – and there’s no reason, perhaps, that you should – DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it is a technology by which content distributors (record companies, for the most part) attempt to control how a customer experiences their product. Now, audiobooks. The starting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Short Story Sunday: "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Cory Doctorw

  
  Ready When You Are, C.B. — Authority: 425
  Ive argued here before that apocolyptic science fiction is a form of escapist fantasy. What would it be like if the world ended in this particular way and only this kind of person survived? Popular author and keeper of the influencial blog Boingboing Cory Doctorow looks at what would happen to the internet if the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Apple Says Audiobooks Must Have DRM

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 709
  DRM doesn’t work. We know it, you know it and even the RIAA knows it . The FCC has had hearings on it, and even the retailers agree that it is useless, which was why Apple removed DRM from their music. Unfortunately, it’s still required for audiobooks that are sold through the iTunes Music Store. Cory ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google CEO says privacy doesn’t matter. Now targeted ad revenue… that’s some important stuff

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 416
  Google CEO Google CEO Eric Schmidt says privacy doesn’t matter , but has seen fit to to tell his company that all CNet reporters were to be blacklisted for a year simply because CNET published information on Schmidt’s neighborhood, hobbies, political donations and so forth, which it found through Google searches ...
  2 weeks ago

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