Cory Doctorow

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• Whuffie: Vamsi Sistla

  
  Netizen — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  17 hours ago

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

  
  The Murverse — Authority: 103
  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 day ago

• Too Much Time On My Hands

  
  Tor/Forge's Blog — Authority: 491
  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 ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  J.C. Hutchins: New Fiction And Author Updates — Authority: 116
  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 ...
  2 days 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.
  3 days ago

• Cory Doctorow Sets the Photographic Record Straight

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 579
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Cory Doctorows Lovers Quarrel with Audio

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 579
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• ★ Audiobooks and DRM

  
  This Writing Life: Ian Hocking — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Ready When You Are, C.B. — Authority: 510
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Apple Says Audiobooks Must Have DRM

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 719
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 414
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Makers and World Changers

  
  Personal Revelations of the Magnificent Megan M. — Authority: 111
  (Originally written for Social Work prn .) I’m reading Cory Doctorow’s Makers as a free digital ebook on my iPhone—truly a state of bliss for me—and I’ve just gotten to the part where he makes me really shake in my boots. Not in fear, not anxiety, not exactly. This shaking in my boots is a precursor ...
  1 week ago

• Audio Interview with Author and Copyright Expert Bill Patry: On Orphans and Pirates

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 499
  In 1841 Thomas Babington Macaulay observed that #8220;it is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the ...
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• Cory Doctorow and the Publishing Revolution

  
  Imperfect Clarity — Authority: 120
  Cory Doctorow, photo by Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 First of all, I have to admit something right up front: I have never read any of Cory Doctorow’s fiction works.  Yeah, yeah, I’m still going to write this post about him though because after reading through a whole lot of articles about the man, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Audio Interview with author activist Cory Doctorow conducted by Nigel Beale: On the Future of the Book

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 499
  #160;Copyright activist, speaker, teacher (how about speacher...or spreacher), columnist, science fiction novelist, short story writer, co-editor of#160; Boing Boing,#160; and the very manifestation of articulate dynamism, Cory Doctorow was in town recently to promote his novel Little Brother (free download here), a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow on the future of the bookstore

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  Clay Shirky posts on his blog about the recent open letter from the American Booksellers Association to the Justice Department, asking them to investigate Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target for pricing best-sellers below $10. (Amazon’s $9.99 e-books in particular are singled out for comment.) The ABA believes that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bookstore futures from Shirky and Doctorow

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 577
  Continuing the increasingly ubiquitous discussion of the future of bookstores (in the wake of Borders in the UK going into receivership ), two heavyweight thinkers have thrown their opinions out into the ring in the last few days. First of all, Clay Shirky, who notes that there are three basic groups of people ...
  2 weeks ago

• Die Bucher (the books) – Doctorow’s Makers

  
  The Vox Pop Log — Authority: 106
  When I read the first third of what would become Makers several years ago I was thrilled. Serialized by Salon.com around 2005, it was a weekly must read about systems being turned on their head. Specifically, the three main characters – Perry, Lester, and Suzanne – find themselves at the core of institutional ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ypulse Essentials: World AIDS Day, Fiesta Movement Awards On Current, Summit To Split Breaking Dawn?

  
  Ypulse — Authority: 431
  World AIDS Day on BET (music countdown show, 106 & PARK, dedicates a full episode to the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic, along with other weeklong programming events. Also Alicia Keyes performs live on YouTube as global ambassador for Keep a Child Alive, a non-profit dedicated to providing life-saving ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cory Doctorow on Real World Key Escrow

  
  Brian.Carnell.Com — Authority: 127
  This is the story of my life: Cory Doctorow and I have the same problem, only he’s actually sat down and thought of a solution while I was busy wasting my life in World of Warcraft. Anyway, the problem is encryption. Now, for the most part encryption is a solution. I have terabytes of personal data that I would ...
  2 weeks ago

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