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• Makers by Cory Doctorow

  
  Best Book — Authority: 98
  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 ...
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• "So what he’s hoping is that a second-tier search engine like Bing or Ask (or, better yet, some..."

  
  Jake Cleland — Authority: 444
  “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 ...
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• Doctorow on YA sex

  
  Mostly Movies — Authority: 132
  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 ...
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• Murdoch on how we’re all thieves now

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 574
  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 .
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• The Democrats’ continuing war on the Internet

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  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 ...
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• Cory Doctorow’s new novel “Makers” now available

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 446
  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 ...
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• What Can Publishers Learn from Cory Doctorow?

  
  Publishing in the 21st Century — Authority: 108
  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 ...
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• What Can Publishers Learn from Cory Doctorow?

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 544
  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 ...
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• 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.
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• 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, ...
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• Cory Doctorow’s Experiment: Does Free Work?

  
  Lone Gunman — Authority: 515
  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 ...
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• If someone tried to take MY books, I would punch them in the throat

  
  scotchneat.ca — Authority: 116
  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 ...
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• Upcoming book cover art

  
  Wild Light | Wildlife Photography | Insect Art | Bird Art | Honey Bee Art — Authority: 118
  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.
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• Yahoo Hires Lap Dancers?

  
  Body Impolitic — Authority: 114
  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 ...
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• One Great Idea – Meet Jonathan Worth

  
  Virtual Photography Studio - Digital Photography Business Guide To Resources, Products and Information — Authority: 122
  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 ...
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• Who Is Your Blogging Role Model?

  
  SlyVisions dot Com — Authority: 124
  Here’s a poser for you folks that’ll get you thinking seriously about what you’re trying to do with your blog by asking: “Who are you trying to be like?” Most of us didn’t just pick up a keyboard one day and say, hm, this blogging thing looks like it might be a job.  I think I’ll do THAT.  Most of us ...
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• Cory Doctorows new project

  
  Reading in the dark — Authority: 125
  Cory described his new short story collection in this Publishers Weekly article http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702526.html and my little fangirl heart is just blown away to find that Leo LaPort will be reading one of the stories for the audio version, while Jonathan Coulton will be writing and reading ...
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• TV Boss Set To Drop A File-Sharing Bomb On Digital Britain

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 715
  For years now we have heard the loud voices of those representing the movie, music and TV industries as they call for tougher and tougher legislation in order to force people to consume media, their way. These entities really believe that the file-sharing genie can be somehow squeezed back into the bottle by the use ...
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• Bookmarks: Google Editions, and more

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 518
  Sundry links from around the Web: Google announces that its online e-book service, known as Google Editions, will launch sometime in the first half of 2010. According to a report on CNET , Google will take a 37% cut on titles sold through its own website; for books sold through a third party – such as Amazon ...
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• Bookmarks: Barnes and Noble e-reader leaked; Google Books tweaked

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 518
  Some tech-themed book links from around the Web: Gizmodo leaks first photos of Barnes and Noble’s new e-reading device Google unveils Google Editions at Frankfurt Book Fair Cory Doctorow rails against “jaw-droppingly dumb” Access Copyright comments
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