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• The My Projects I’ve Worked On, LOL Project

  
  SNAG Vs. World — Authority: 113
  Cory Doctorow, man, he gave me a brilliant idea . Why not give away a free ebook to the first book I ever published, Small Worlds: A Miscellany . It’s a book that has been compared to a Saturday Morning cartoon, but for the right audience… that might not be a bad thing. I’m not saying it’s the greatest ...
  22 hours ago

• Rupert versus the internet

  
  thenextwave — Authority: 107
  It’s difficult to know at first sight whether Rupert Murdoch doesn’t understand the internet, or whether he is just going through contortions to to delay the likely loss of value it represents for his multi-billion dollar media business. The evidence for the former is that News Corp was late in engaging with the ...
  2 days ago

• Cory Doctorow’s “Makers” Launch Tonight

  
  Global Nerdy — Authority: 544
  My friend (and former officemate!) Cory Doctorow is launching his latest novel, Makers , tonight at the Toronto Public Library at 239 College Street (east of Spadina). The fun happens in the Merrill Collection room, located on the third floor at 7 p.m. tonight. Cory will be doing a reading, taking questions ...
  3 days ago

• Utnecast: Interview with Utne Visionary Cory Doctorow

  
  UtneCast — Authority: 92
  Download Cory Doctorow Utnecast You’d be forgiven for expecting little from a guy with a blog called Craphound , another called Boing Boing , and a penchant for distributing digital versions of his science fiction free of charge . The thing is, Cory Doctorow’s blogs are read by millions, and his ...
  4 days ago

• Bush, Obama Justice Departments Wanted Left-Wing Site’s Visitor Lists

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 804
  It’s just now coming out that officials in the Bush and Obama Justice Departments tried to get the IP addresses of every visitor to Indymedia.us, a left-wing, anticapitalist news site. When the site’s administrators wanted to share the story with the Electronic Frontier Federation (EFF), the government ...
  5 days ago

• Makers by Cory Doctorow

  
  Best Book — Authority: 119
  What is Makers by Cory Doctorow? A intelligently humorous and creative novel about the end of the economy from the visionary author of Little Brother. Cory Doctorow is an extraordinarily clever commentator of how technology influences the way we live and a astute prognosticator of where it will take us. So, while ...
  5 days ago

• "So what he’s hoping is that a second-tier search engine like Bing or Ask (or, better yet, some..."

  
  Jake Cleland — Authority: 491
  “So what he’s hoping is that a second-tier search engine like Bing or Ask (or, better yet, some search tool you’ve never heard of that just got $50MM in venture capital) will give him half a year’s operating budget in exchange for a competitive advantage over Google.” - Cory Doctorow on what Rupert ...
  6 days ago

• Doctorow on YA sex

  
  Mostly Movies — Authority: 133
  I wrote about Cory Doctorows novel Little Brother a while ago here . It seems the sex scene in the book offended some more than the idea of a teen outwitting Homeland Security with hacked Xboxes; here is the authors vigorous defense of giving teen characters the license to experiment. (Locus) Ive spent enough ...
  6 days ago

• Murdoch on how we’re all thieves now

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 584
  Rupert Murdoch on Sky News: Make of it what you will. It seems pretty incoherent to me. I think Cory Doctorow’s pretty much right – these musings are fantasies, and his editors are going to have a horrible time trying to implement all these confused thought bubbles. Elsewhere : Gary Sauer-Thompson .
  6 days ago

• The Democrats’ continuing war on the Internet

  
  RedState — Authority: 814
  The last time a Democrat was in the White House we got the Communications Decency Act (since thrown out by the Supreme Court) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (still a weight on the neck of American innovators). This time we’re not only seeing “Net Neutrality” being used as cover for sweeping proposed ...
  1 week ago

• Cory Doctorow’s new novel “Makers” now available

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 491
  Cory Doctorow has just released his latest novel “Makers” , “a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet.” Here’s where to find print versions of the book for sale and an ...
  1 week ago

• What Can Publishers Learn from Cory Doctorow?

  
  Publishing in the 21st Century — Authority: 109
  The short answer? Everything. Doctorow, whose brash and sometimes subversive-sounding publishing strategies have made him a folk hero to his fans and generated intense controversy in the mainstream publishing community, has laid siege to the very ramparts of that community by wagering that hes at least as good a ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Can Publishers Learn from Cory Doctorow?

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 554
  The short answer? Everything. Doctorow, whose brash and sometimes subversive-sounding publishing strategies have made him a folk hero to his fans and generated intense controversy in the mainstream publishing community, has laid siege to the very ramparts of that community by wagering that hes at least as good a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cory Doctorow has a new novel out. Which you can, as usual,...

  
  Found Objects — Authority: 118
  Cory Doctorow has a new novel out . Which you can, as usual, download for free from his website. I have a colossal number of pages to read as part of my Master’s thesis investigations, but I’ll read this as soon as I feel I need a break from those readings.
  2 weeks ago

• Questions + Answers from the Hero Dossier at Fresh Media – Feasthouse Podcast

  
  Ephemeral Feasthouse — Authority: 103
  At Fresh Media conference at W2 Arts + Media Centre, participants riff a spontaneous blurb about a hero from a Dossier of Importantancy in a workshop about storytelling + podcasting by Dave Olson (AKA Uncle Weed). Features Samuel Pepys , RMS Carpathia , Amber Case , Thomas Paine, J. Garcia, Mudhoney, JJ Rousseau, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cory Doctorow’s Experiment: Does Free Work?

  
  Lone Gunman — Authority: 470
  For his next collection of short stories to be published, titled  With a Little Help , author and blogger-extraordinaire Cory Doctorow will be running an experiment so that he can see whether his strategy of offering his work for free is working . With prices to range from $0.00 to $10,000 for various ...
  3 weeks ago

• If someone tried to take MY books, I would punch them in the throat

  
  scotchneat.ca — Authority: 117
  So, Cory . The talk I saw was “ Copyright versus Universal Access to All Human Knowledge and Groups Without Cost: the state of play in the global copyfight “. This is another love story, not with a subject, but with books. Doctorow started his lecture with a homily to books. How we feel about them, how we want ...
  3 weeks ago

• Upcoming book cover art

  
  Wild Light | Wildlife Photography | Insect Art | Bird Art | Honey Bee Art — Authority: 120
  I’ve done the cover art for an upcoming book by best-selling writer Cory Doctorow. Cory’s has a Publishers Weekly column about his unique project. I’ll post more as Cory reveals all the details.
  3 weeks ago

• Yahoo Hires Lap Dancers?

  
  Body Impolitic — Authority: 116
  Debbie says: I was just cruising the Internet, looking for something interesting to blog today, but I didn’t expect this … Yahoo has apologized for its use of scantily clad lap dancers to entertain mainly male software developers and engineers in Taiwan last weekend. The Internet search company Monday ...
  3 weeks ago

• One Great Idea – Meet Jonathan Worth

  
  Virtual Photography Studio - Digital Photography Business Guide To Resources, Products and Information — Authority: 123
  What if you decided to use new media to change your business, instead of doing business the way you always had? That’s what led me to Jonathan Worth, and why I decided to use him as one of my “One Great Idea” posts. I found Jonathon through the site of a writer, Cory Doctorow. The title of his post caught my ...
  3 weeks ago

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