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Makers by Cory Doctorow
Book Calendar —
Authority: 130
Makers by Cory Doctorow This is the kind of book which will keep you up reading until you are done. It is a story of technology, creativity, and intrigue. The story is focused on digital fabricators and three dimensional printers. It describes many things which are coming very soon. You could call ...1 day ago -
Fantastic Publishers’ Training for 2010 LBF
Modjaji Books —
Authority: 112
Last week about 20 publishers/ book trade people spent 3 days at Roodevallei , north of Pretoria, getting into gear for the London Book Fair. Jane Henshall, the South Africa Market Focus Co-ordinator , organised one of the best training experiences I have ever had. The venue was fabulous, comfortable rooms, with ...1 day ago -
Tales from the Con: Philcon 2009
Geekadelphia —
Authority: 474
Last weekend I had the pleasure to attend Philcon 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill . This will actually be my third time attending Philcon, and my first time attending Philcon at its new home in New Jersey. I had been looking forward to this con for the last couple of weeks because of their great ...1 day ago -
My e-book Thanksgiving list
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Authority: 661
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...1 day ago -
Does Rupert Murdoch have an Internet strategy?
Scholars and Rogues —
Authority: 601
As a follow-on to Dr. Denny’s post on Rupert Murdoch way back on 29 August, there have been further developments worth noting in this space. There has been a flurry of headlines the past few weeks over recent comments by Murdoch, who now is making noises about removing News Corp news stories from Google. He’s ...3 days ago -
The evil that is ACTA
Corrente —
Authority: 626
As Cory Doctorow says: Heres a 20-minute, must-see lecture on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement -- the secret copyright treaty currently being negotiated, which stands to fatally wound all user-generated content sites from mailing lists to YouTube; which stands to criminalize kids for noncommercial ...1 week ago -
Cory Doctorow in support of copyright
Joho the Blog —
Authority: 606
In this edition of Radio Berkman, Cory Doctorow argues in favor of copyright … the part of copyright that protects the rights of readers to own (and not just license) books. It being Cory, the discussion covers topics such as the way in which books are like dogs and his sentimental attachment to his digital ...1 week ago -
Don’t Forget, Philcon 2009 is this weekend!
Geekadelphia —
Authority: 474
In case you forgot Philcon , The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society’s yearly sci-fi convention is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ .(You know, the same place as Monstermania ) I usually attend Philcon and have found it to be a great con for those into the more ...1 week ago -
Cory: No, three strikes and you’re out
Joho the Blog —
Authority: 606
I’ve posted a video interview with Cory Doctorow at Broadband Strategy Week . Cory talks about the disproportionality of “three strikes” laws that take away Internet access from those who have been thrice accused of copyright infringement. Perhaps, he suggests, we should also take away Internet access from ...1 week ago -
Cory Doctorows /Makers/
Lindsay Bell —
Authority: 112
Ive been a simpering quietly gushing fan of BoingBoing blogger Cory Doctorows for some time now, but I cant stay quiet for this one. By all means, check this out. This, my friends, is the future of fiction. If, unlike me, youve got some pennies to spare, kick a few into his coffer as well.1 week ago -
The My Projects I’ve Worked On, LOL Project
SNAG Vs. World —
Authority: 115
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 ...1 week ago -
Rupert versus the internet
thenextwave —
Authority: 410
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 weeks ago -
Cory Doctorow’s “Makers” Launch Tonight
Global Nerdy —
Authority: 421
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 ...2 weeks ago -
Utnecast: Interview with Utne Visionary Cory Doctorow
UtneCast —
Authority: 100
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 ...2 weeks ago -
Bush, Obama Justice Departments Wanted Left-Wing Site’s Visitor Lists
Mediaite —
Authority: 799
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 ...2 weeks ago -
Makers by Cory Doctorow
Best Book —
Authority: 464
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 ...2 weeks ago -
"So what he’s hoping is that a second-tier search engine like Bing or Ask (or, better yet, some..."
Jake Cleland —
Authority: 517
“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 ...2 weeks ago -
Doctorow on YA sex
Mostly Movies —
Authority: 134
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 ...2 weeks ago -
Murdoch on how we’re all thieves now
Larvatus Prodeo —
Authority: 535
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 .2 weeks 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 ...3 weeks ago
