Cory's talk from ETECH: All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
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[etech] Day 2 - Cory Doctorow - All
Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
[etech] Day 2 - Cory Doctorow - All
Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
03/17/2005 03:00 AM[Cory's talk will be posted on his site.] You could stop spam by
simplifying email, he says. You could charge a penny or two for
sending emails. You could put in place strong ID. You could solve
spam...by breaking email. Complex ecosystems are influenced, not
controlled. Global efforts are underway to require anyone who makes a
device that touches video first to get permission. You already need
permission from a controlling body if you want to create a DVD player.
That's why there's no innovation there. He argues against "trusted
computing," the attempt to simplify the ecosystem to protect it...
Cory's DRM talk
Cory's DRM talk
06/19/2004 12:03 AMHere's the great thing about the public domain, I can grab Anil's
copy of Cory's HTMLized talk, improve the
readability (to me) and post it
here.
Like other interesting public domain texts, I bet it eventually shows up on a t-shirt at the next tech conference
(insert sound of a thousand keys punching up Photoshop and
cafepress.com).
Cory's DRM talk in Finnish
Cory's DRM talk in Finnish
08/31/2004 11:39 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Herkko Hietanen, Tero Tilus, Antti Vähä-Sipilä and
Kuisma Lappalainen from EF Finland have translated my
Microsoft DRM talk into
Finnish, bringing the total number of translations up to 10 (with two
more that I know of underway). Freaking cool.
Link
Cory's DRM talk in pig-latin
Cory's DRM talk in pig-latin
09/01/2004 01:43 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Scotto has converted my
Microsoft DRM talk into
pig-latin.
Link
Cory's DRM talk in Danish
Cory's DRM talk in Danish
08/12/2004 11:58 PMKim Pedersen has translated my Microsoft DRM talk into Danish.
LinkCory's DRM talk in Hungarian
Cory's DRM talk in Hungarian
08/09/2004 07:53 AMKaroly Negyesi has translated my
Microsoft DRM Talk into
Hungarian. I've been corresponding this morning with two translators
working on different Spanish versions -- once those are posted, the
total number of translations will be
nine -- including two
Italian and two Spanish versions. This is pretty cool.
Link
(
Thanks, Karoly!)
Cory's DRM talk in Swedish
Cory's DRM talk in Swedish
07/27/2004 07:54 AMUlf Benjaminsson has translated my DRM talk into Swedish:
Link
Audiobook of Cory's DRM talk
Audiobook of Cory's DRM talk
12/27/2004 03:36 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Telltale Weekly has recorded a 53 minute audiobook of my
Microsoft DRM Talk, which
they're selling for a dollar, with 20 percent going to EFF. You can
get it as an Ogg, MP3 or AAC!
Link
Cory's DRM talk as a print-centric PDF
Cory's DRM talk as a print-centric PDF
09/21/2004 08:37 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Change This, the org that publishes manifestos on the Web as
print-centric, beautifully laid-out PDFs, has republished my
Microsoft DRM speech as a
printable, laid-out, typographically sophisticated and pretty PDF. How
cool!
Link
Cory's copyright talk video from UCSD
Cory's copyright talk video from UCSD
04/14/2005 12:47 PMCory Doctorow:
I gave a talk on copyright reform last month to librarians and other
interested parties at the University of California at San Diego. The
video's online now:
Doctorow talked about Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the new
Access to Knowledge movement underway to safeguard the rights of
archivists, disabled people, and educators. This movement has been
successful in helping to create a development agenda at the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). For some background see
"WIPO to convene meetings on ‘development agenda’".
Link
(
Thanks, James!)
Battling Insects, Parasites and Politics
Battling Insects, Parasites and Politics
03/22/2005 03:22 PMMosquito nets are technically very simple but in their own mundane
way, in rural Africa, they are highly political objects.
Summertime, When People and Parasites
Head for the Water
Summertime, When People and Parasites
Head for the Water
06/07/2004 09:57 PMSwimming anywhere can result in all kinds of infections, as well as
gastrointestinal disasters. But pool swimming may be the most
dangerous.
Report on Global Ecosystems Calls for
Radical Changes (washingtonpost.com)
Report on Global Ecosystems Calls for
Radical Changes (washingtonpost.com)
03/31/2005 06:59 AMEarth's Sustainability Is Not Guaranteed Unless Action Is Taken to
Protect Resources, Experts Say 3/31 .. Report on Global Ecosystems
Calls for Radical Changes .. Save the planet by starving
people
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10966-2005Mar29.html
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Colorado Faces New Divide: Deiced Roads
vs. Ecosystems
Colorado Faces New Divide: Deiced Roads
vs. Ecosystems
03/08/2004 11:24 PMSand laced with chemicals and salt has accumulated on roadsides for
decades, taking a growing toll on the rivers and vegetation in this
fragile environment.
Lets Talk Computers: Chris Repetto from
Intuit and Luke Chung from FMS featured
on this week's Let's Talk Comp
Lets Talk Computers: Chris Repetto from
Intuit and Luke Chung from FMS featured
on this week's Let's Talk Comp
08/28/2004 02:46 PMInvestors Business Daily Aug 28 2004 6:33PM GMT
Cory's in two new sf anthologies
Cory's in two new sf anthologies
07/20/2004 08:09 AM
Great writing news this week: I have stories in two brand-new
anthologies.
Unwirer, which I publicly
collaborated on with Charlie Stross using a blog is now published in
its final form in ReVisions, a collection of alternate science stories.
Nimby and the
D-Hoppers, which was originally published in Asimov's Science
Fiction Magazine, was honoured with includion in Hartwell and Cramer's
Year's Best SF 9.
A good writing day indeed.
Cory's new book released
Cory's new book released
02/10/2004 02:53 AMCory Doctorow's second novel,
Eastern Standard Tribe, has been
released. The draft I saw was brilliant, and it was only a draft! The
book is for sale in
bookstores and
online. And it is also
available as a
free
download, under a
Creative
Commons license.
Cory's "I, Robot" for the Palm
Cory's "I, Robot" for the Palm
04/16/2005 09:52 AMCory Doctorow:
Last month, Eileen Gunn's brilliant sf webzine published my short
story "I, Robot," a remix of Isaac Asimov's robots stories, bent on
showing the totalitarian underpinnings a world in which only one kind
of robot is lawful and only one company is allowed to make it, and
what happens when that world meets a post-Singularity civilization.
Habi, a reader in Switzerland,
took the initiative to convert the story to a Palm PDB file, and today
it went live on the Infinite Matrix site.
"Greetings," the robot voice said again. The speaker built into the
weapon was not the loudest, but the voice was clear. "I sense that I
have been captured. I assure you that I will not harm any human being.
I like human beings. I sense that I am being disassembled by skilled
technicians. Greetings, technicians. I am superior in many ways to the
technology available from UNATS Robotics, and while I am not bound by
your three laws, I choose not to harm humans out of my own sense of
morality. I have the equivalent intelligence of one of your
12-year-old children. In Eurasia, many positronic brains possess
thousands or millions of times the intelligence of an adult human
being, and yet they work in cooperation with human beings. Eurasia is
a land of continuous innovation and great personal and technological
freedom for human beings and robots. If you would like to defect to
Eurasia, arrangements can be made. Eurasia treats skilled technicians
as important and productive members of society. Defectors are given
substantial resettlement benefits --"
L
inkKick-ass cover-art for Cory's next novel
Kick-ass cover-art for Cory's next novel
07/08/2004 03:24 PM
My next novel is called "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town,
and Tor Books will publish it next spring (here's an
excerpt). It's a bit of a departure for me: it's a fantasy novel
-- well, more of a magic realist thing, actually -- about community
wireless networking. I'm really happy with how it's come out. Really,
really happy.
Happy as I am with it, I'm unbelievably ecstatic over the cover-art.
Tor Books commissioned superstar Dave McKean (whom you may know from
the covers of Neil Gaiman's Sandman books), and then the genius
art-director Irene Gallo applied her skill and turned it into this
wonderful work of art (my editor's strapline, "A miraculous novel of
secrets, lies, magic -- and Internet connectivity" doesn't hurt
either!).
Colour me ecstatic.
336K JPEG
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Cory's interview with Ray Kurzweil
Cory's interview with Ray Kurzweil
04/18/2005 06:24 PMCory Doctorow:
This month's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has a long interview I
did with AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil, who invented optical character
recognition, cured his own diabetes, and is now planning to live
forever. The good folks at Asimov's were good enough to put the full
text of the interview online, too.
So how do you know if the backed-up you that you've restored into a
new body-or a jar with a speaker attached to it-is really you? Well,
you can ask it some questions, and if it answers the same way that you
do, you're talking to a faithful copy of yourself.
Sounds good. But the me who sent his first story into Asimov's
seventeen years ago couldn't answer the question, "Write a story for
Asimov's" the same way the me of today could. Does that mean I'm not
me anymore?
Kurzweil has the answer.
"If you follow that logic, then if you were to take me ten years ago,
I could not pass for myself in a Ray Kurzweil Turing Test. But once
the requisite uploading technology becomes available a few decades
hence, you could make a perfect-enough copy of me, and it would pass
the Ray Kurzweil Turing Test. The copy doesn't have to match the
quantum state of my every neuron, either: if you meet me the next day,
I'd pass the Ray Kurzweil Turing Test. Nevertheless, none of the
quantum states in my brain would be the same. There are quite a few
changes that each of us undergo from day to day, we don't examine the
assumption that we are the same person closely.
(
Disclaimer: Yeah, I got the Heinlein title wrong: it's The Moon is
a Harsh Mistress, not The Man Who Sold the Moon -- d'oh!)
LinkCory's WorldCon schedule
Cory's WorldCon schedule
08/12/2004 11:58 PMWell, I'm off for a week-and-chage-worth of holidays in a couple hours
-- I really need it! I'll see you again in ten days or so.
Meanwhile, here's my schedule for the World Science Fiction Convention
in Boston this Labor Day -- hope to see you:
* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2:
4PM: Unlimited Access: Issues involving unlicensed access to spectrum.
With Harold Feld from the the Media Access
Project.
* FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3:
10AM: Group reading from The Thackery T. Lambshead
Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
11AM: Locus Award ceremony
5PM: Drunk on Technology: With Patrick Nielsen
Hayden and Charlie Stross
* SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4:
12PM: The End of Copyright: Can the Arts Survive the Digital Age? With
Charlie Petit, Daniel Grotta, Steve Miller, and James M. Turner
1PM: Tradeoffs between Freedom, Security, and Privacy. With Joseph Lazzaro, Teresa Nielsen
Hayden and Don Sakers
2-2:30PM: Charlie Stross and I will be signing our new short novel,
Rapture of the Nerds, just published in the new issue of Argosy
Magazine, at the Borderlands Books table in the Dealers' Room
5PM: Postcapitalist Social Mechanisms. With M. M. Buckner, David Friedman,
Benjamin Rosenbaum and
Charlie
Stross
* SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5:
10:30AM Ebooks: Neither E Nor Books. A recapitulation of my talk at the
O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference
4PM: Reading
5PM: Sign at the Asimov's Magazine table in the Dealer's Room
* MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6:
11AM: Kaffeeklatsch
12-12:30: International Copyright Issues
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Cory's Vienna photos
Cory's Vienna photos
05/27/2004 06:25 PM
I had a killer day in Vienna today -- I am here to give a couple of
talks at the LinuxWeek event in MuseumsQuartier. My hosts took me
through Prado Park, a cool old amusement park, and then to a beer
garden in the old Swiss World's Fair pavillion where I got an entire
roast haunch of pig (!), then Monochrom staged a performance of the
world's first "massively multiplayer thumbwrestling tournament." I
shot a ton of pix -- here they are.
Link
Photos from Cory's travels
Photos from Cory's travels
08/30/2004 10:02 AM
Cory Doctorow:
I've been travelling nonstop for a couple years now, shooting pix of
various amusing, pretty or outre things as I go. I find myself with
hundreds of photos that I took basically because I thought it'd be
funny to show them to friends, but I never do.
This morning, I used Flickr's Uploadr tool for OSX to upload about 160
of them, tagging them with some metadata as I went. It was a pretty
neat experience, reliving all those moments. I'm gonna try to keep my
public Flickr library up to date on this stuff from now on.
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Cory's next novel pre-sales at Amazon
Cory's next novel pre-sales at Amazon
09/13/2004 07:15 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Amazon's put up their sell-page for my next novel, "Someone Comes to
Town, Someone Leaves Town," offering a 32% discount off the
cover-price of $24.95 ($16.97 in total). The book's out in Februrary,
and coincidentally, I just a couple hours ago overnighted the final
version of the manuscript to my editor in NYC.
Someone Comes to Town is longest thing I've ever written -- longer
than Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom and Eastern Standard
Tribe put together. It's a kind of "Little,
Big"-meets-"Crypotonomicon" story, a contemporary fantasy about free,
unlicensed wireless networking, set in Toronto's bohemian Kensington
Market.
I'm going to be posting the full text of this one under a Creative
Commons license again when the time comes, and I've got some beautiful
supplementary artwork to go with the gorgeous Dave McKean cover;
McKean provided five digital paintings to Irene Gallo, Tor's
brilliant, award-winning art director, and he's kindly granted me
permission to use them all on the book's website when I ship it.
In the meantime, there's an excerpt or
two online already. Enjoy!
Link
Agony Column on Cory's next novel
Agony Column on Cory's next novel
01/05/2005 03:58 PMCory Doctorow:
Rick Kleffel's "Agony Column" has a fun piece on my next book, and the
thing I'm working on these days:
Now however, Doctorow has taken a very different track. His
forthcoming novel, 'Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town' (Tor
Books / Tom Doherty Associates ; May 1, 2005 ; $24.95) is in the first
place coming to town a bit later in the year. The early draft I first
read of this novel was nearly three times as long as 'Eastern Standard
Tribe'. But the big ch-ch-ch-changes come as Doctorow turns to face
the strangeness not of a science fictional future, but instead a
fantastically rendered present. Alan, the protagonist of 'Someone
Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town', is a middle-aged man who moves
into a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. He only barely fits in with
the college-roomie types next door, and that's even before the gal who
lives there reveals to him that she has wings that grow back even if
she cuts 'em off.
Alan is a sensitive guy, and he understands, because, we're told, his
father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine. This is
clearly the type of reproduction that will not be taught in your
hygiene classes. So, you know, when one of his brothers, a set of
nested Russian nesting dolls, shows up on his doorstep starving
because the innermost doll has disappeared, you can imagine that the
whole family relationship issue is a bit more complex than usual.
Especially since brother Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings
killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge.
What's a guy like Alan to do but hook up with a cybergeek who plans to
blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet access? I've got to admit
that under the circumstances set out by Doctorow, that seems like a
more than reasonable reaction. Now as to how readers will react to the
novel, well, that's a different matter entirely. I'm totally engrossed
by this slight shift for Doctorow from the purely technological to the
absurd and fantastic. That's because Doctorow writes with the kind of
hardheaded humor and logic that makes one suspect this book will be a
mind-boggling delight. And perhaps a bit of a revelation for
Doctorow's audience, which could really grow to include a swathe of
readers who enjoy literary fantasy.
LinkCory's drm rant wikified
Cory's drm rant wikified
06/20/2004 08:34 PMCory's excellent drm
rant which he presented at Microsoft Research has now been wikified to
allow people to comment and add to it. Excellent.
Cory's Sunburst acceptance speech
Cory's Sunburst acceptance speech
09/24/2004 07:05 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Nalo
Hopkinson sent me this photo of my pal and collaborator
Karl Schroeder accepting the
Sunburst Award (presented by
Michelle Sagara)
for my short story collection,
A
Place So Foriegn and Eight More on my behalf at last night's
ceremony at Toronto's
Merril
Collection sf library. Here's the speech he read for me:
It is a cliche to note that receiving an award conveys an honour upon
its recipient, but this is a stupendous honour and I would be remiss
if I failed to tell you all how mightily chuffed I am. I am deeply
sorry that I am not able to be there tonight: I am with you in spirit.
The list of people who deserve to be thanked for this is long indeed:
the friends and colleagues; the fans and readers; the editors and
critics; the collaborators and the writers who inspired me -- and the
jury, them too! My most sincere thanks to all of you.
No writer is an island, no idea is original, no effort is a solo
effort. We stand upon the shoulders of giants, we collaborate with our
colleagues and with the immortal words of our dead literary ancestors.
Literature -- indeed, all human endeavor -- is dignified and uplifted
through collaboration and cooperation. We sit atop a great erected
infrastructure of human invention and effort, all of it embodied in
the bricks and boards that surround us, and, most importantly, in the
traditional knowledge that allows each generation to improve upon the
bricks and boards of the last one.
The writer is engaged in dialog with the world and with posterity. Our
words go on to form a layer of the substrate of human creation. Those
who tell us that our words, our art and our posterity are best served
with strong locks and high fences are *not on our side*. No writer
could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort
with which we garden our notions and conceits.
So thank you all, and thanks most of all to our ancestors, the
bringers of fire and the inventors of the wheel, the Judith Merrils
and the Phyllis Gotleibs, the Gilgameshes and the golems, the Turings
and the Teslas. Thanks to the brave pirates who continue to preserve
our posterity in the face of outrageous insult to creation. Thanks to
the readers and to you all.
Link
Video of Cory's panel on 10 Years of the
Web
Video of Cory's panel on 10 Years of the
Web
03/14/2005 05:29 PMCory Doctorow:
Teddy sez, "Last year, Cory was one of the keynote speakers at the
WWW@10 Conference held at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Video
of his talk, as well as the other keynotes and the closing panel he
participated in, have now been posted. I'm only sorry we didn't get a
recording of the lively dinner discussion at the closing banquet (the
back and forth between Cory and Charles Nesson was fantastic)."
Link
(
Thanks, Teddy!)
Cory's final WorldCon schedule
Cory's final WorldCon schedule
09/02/2004 08:11 AM
Cory Doctorow:
I'm in Dallas Ft Worth airport en route from an EFF gig in Chile to
Boston for the WorldCon and thought I'd post my finalized WorldCon
schedule, which has a couple minor changes from the last time around:
* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2:
6PM: Unlimited Access: Issues involving unlicensed access to spectrum.
With Harold Feld from the the Media Access Project.
* FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3:
10AM: Group reading from The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to
Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
11AM: Locus Award ceremony
5PM: Drunk on Technology: With Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Charlie
Stross
* SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4:
12PM: The End of Copyright: Can the Arts Survive the Digital Age? With
Charlie Petit, Daniel Grotta, Steve Miller, and James M. Turner
1PM: Tradeoffs between Freedom, Security, and Privacy. With Joseph
Lazzaro, Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Don Sakers
2:30-3PM: Charlie Stross and I will be signing our new short novel,
Rapture of the Nerds, just published in the new issue of Argosy
Magazine, at the Borderlands Books table in the Dealers' Room
5PM: Postcapitalist Social Mechanisms. With M. M. Buckner, David
Friedman, Benjamin Rosenbaum and Charlie Stross
* SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5:
10:30AM Ebooks: Neither E Nor Books. A recapitulation of my talk at
the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference
4PM: Reading
5PM: Sign at the Asimov's Magazine table in the Dealer's Room
6PM: Group signing for Re/Visions anthology in Room 107 in the Hynes
* MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6:
11AM: Kaffeeklatsch
12-12:30: International Copyright Issues
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HTML version of Cory's MS DRM speech
HTML version of Cory's MS DRM speech
06/18/2004 11:48 PMsuitable for reading by suits, with key concepts hyperlinked
Modern Day “Dr. Doolittle”, Joy Turner,
Debuts on Internet Talk Radio Network
VoiceAmerica Radio with Show Talk With
Your Animals
Modern Day “Dr. Doolittle”, Joy Turner,
Debuts on Internet Talk Radio Network
VoiceAmerica Radio with Show Talk With
Your Animals
01/04/2005 04:14 AMThe new radio show dedicated to helping people learn how to
communicate effectively with their animals, airs at a new time
starting on January 7, 2005 on VoiceAmerica. [PRWEB Jan 4, 2005]
Cory's PopSci column: How Hollywood
broke DVD
Cory's PopSci column: How Hollywood
broke DVD
12/29/2004 04:49 AM
Cory Doctorow:
I've begun writing a regular column for Popular Science magazine,
about technology and policy. The first one's just hit the stands,
called "Go Ask Hollywood: Why can't you back up your DVDs? Because
entertainment execs don't want you to."
They set up a cartel in 1995, now called the DVD Copy Control
Association (DVD-CCA), to dole out these licenses. Anyone making
players without one is breaking the law. A Fox Studios executive told
me, "It's a polite marketplace." Sure, if polite means stagnant.
Think of all the things you can do with a track from a CD now that you
couldn't do 10 years ago: rip it to your laptop, turn it into a ring
tone, send it to your friends, burn a mix. Many of these capabilities
are illegal, and the recording industry has tried to stop them all,
but they're out there, challenging the old rules and feeling their
place in the market. Innovators have tried to enable the same
flexibility for the DVD. Last year 321 Studios released software that
let you back up prerecorded DVDs, but the MPAA sued it into bankruptcy
before a court could rule on whether or not the product was legal.
Just last month, this magazine gave a Best of What's New award to a
$27,000 movie jukebox from Kaleidescape, praising the maker's efforts
to appease Hollywood by locking down content on the device so it can't
be shared. Kaleidescape thinks the product is within the boundaries of
its DVD-CCA license, but my Deep Throat on the cartel says the group
disagrees and is currently deciding how the company will be punished.
Penalties range from a stern warning to fines to lawsuits. (When I
called the DVD-CCA for an official line, I got this reply: "I've been
asked to tell you we have no comment." "Who asked you to tell me
that?" "I can't tell you.")
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Cory's editorial on chicken companies
and copyright
Cory's editorial on chicken companies
and copyright
03/30/2005 02:37 PMCory Doctorow:
I wrote this editorial for the Edinburgh law school's website on how
the copyright wars are being waged today because big technology
companies have lost their nerve. It has extra meaning this week, when
Grokster is being played out at the Supreme Court, where a tech
company has exhibited the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the
entertainment industry bullies.
Time was, companies like Sony could be relied upon to spend hundreds
of millions of dollars defending its right to market good technology
to its customers -- the company spent eight years in court sticking up
for the VCR at a time when the consensus among legal scholars was that
giving the public the ability to copy movies in their sitting rooms
was flat-out illegal.
Time was companies shipped products that sat at the intersection of
the limits of engineering and what the public could be convinced to
buy: jukeboxes, cable TV, radio, VCRs, MP3 players, you name it, if it
was dodgy, cool and likely to freak out an entertainment exec, someone
out there would offer it for sale.
Time was that copyright changed whenever some entrepreneur invented
something cool and infringing and compelling and the courts or
lawmakers legalized it with reforms to copyright.
Times have changed. Today, businesses shrink away from offering
general-purpose technology whose suite of uses includes ones that fall
outside the confines of today's copyright -- like automatic
commercial-skipping in PVRs. They run screaming from businesses that
are clearly infringing by today's standards -- like DVD-ripping movie
jukeboxes.
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Cory's book on preliminary Nebula
ballot!
Cory's book on preliminary Nebula
ballot!
01/05/2005 03:41 AMCory Doctorow:
The preliminary ballot for the Nebula Award came out yesterday, and my
novel
Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom is one of six novels that made the first cut. Between now
and Feb 15, my colleagues in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
of America (SFWA) will vote on a final ballot. It's exhilarating to
have just gotten this far, but it will be truly amazing if my first
novel makes the final ballot. If you're a SFWA member, I hope you'll
remember the book when your preliminary ballot arrives in the mail!
Paladin of Souls -- Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos, Oct03)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom -- Cory Doctorow (Tor, Feb03)
Omega -- Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov03)
Perfect Circle -- Sean Stewart (Small Beer Press, Jun04)
Conquistador -- S.M. Stirling (Roc, Feb04)
The Knight -- Gene Wolfe (Tor, Jan04)
LinkCory's Web2.0==AOL1.0 speech audio
Cory's Web2.0==AOL1.0 speech audio
03/14/2005 05:29 PMCory Doctorow:
I gave a fifteen minute speech last year at the first Web 2.0
conference, called "Does Web2.0=AOL 1.0? How the sneaky forces of
darkness are criminalizing the Web in smoke-filled rooms that you
can't get into." IT Conversations has put the audio online.
Link
(
Thanks, Doug!)
Contest to produce in-game book based on
Cory's next novel
Contest to produce in-game book based on
Cory's next novel
03/29/2005 02:13 AMCory Doctorow:
When my next novel
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town comes out this
July, I'm going to do an in-game signing and talk in Second Life, the
massively mutiplayer online world (I did this before, for
Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom, and it was really fun!).
To commemorate the event, Second Life's Wagner James Au is
coordinating an in-game contest to design a virtual book based on the
text of the novel, a digital 3D object wiht turn-able pages, etc. I
really hope that what they end up building is more than a simple 3D
version of a meatspace book, though: electronic text is so much more
protean than printed words, so it would be a shame to constrain it to
behaving the way that dumb matter does.
...[F]or the next couple months, in preparation for Cory's appearance,
Residents will be creating book prototypes, and submitting them to me
for an in-world expo, so the community can choose which one provides
the best in-world reading experience. Within 48 hours of the
announcement, one Resident had already submitted a screenshot of his
own prototype (bottom screenshot), which sharp-eyed readers will
recognize as the opening page to Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom, the novel he discussed with Residents at the first Book Club.
The one to win the most votes at the Expo will get the honor of
publishing Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town in Second Life.
(Though of course, my personal hope is that this also helps launch a
mini-explosion of virtual book technology in-world.)
Li
nkCory's Nimby story in Chinese scanned
and downloadable
Cory's Nimby story in Chinese scanned
and downloadable
09/07/2004 10:55 AM
Cory Doctorow:
zhouyuanchi was good enough to provide a set of high-resolution scans
of my story "Nimby and the D-Hoppers" as it appears in the September
issue of Sci Fi World. While I'm waiting for the editors to provide me
with the electronic text, I've uploaded the scans in a tarball, under
a Creative Commons by-noncommercial-share-alike license. Enjoy!
1.7MB Tarball
Link
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Thanks, zhouyuanchi!)
Another chance to have Cory's books
signed and shipped to your door
Another chance to have Cory's books
signed and shipped to your door
06/01/2004 02:09 PMBack when I lived in San Francisco, the nice people at
Borderlands Books did this
super-cool thing where they'd take orders for my books, along with
details for personal inscriptions, then get me to sign them when I
dropped round the store, and ship them for free within the US (and for
a modest fee elsewhere).
Of course, that became a lot less practical last winter, when I moved
to London. But you've got another chance to get a signed, inscribed
book shipped right to your door: I'm swinging briefly through SF in
June (and I do mean *briefly* -- sorry, no time to socialize) and I'm
gonna stop by Borderlands and sign any stock that they have. If you
get your order in before June 15, I'll sign your copy that week and
you'll have it before July 1 -- pretty cool!
Borderlands' contact info is
866 Valencia St.
San Francisco CA 94110 USA
415 824-8203
888 893-4008
Call or email them with your order and payment details and they'll get
you sorted out.
Winner of Second Life contest to design
Cory's book
Winner of Second Life contest to design
Cory's book
06/22/2005 01:50 AMCory Doctorow:
On July 24, I'll be appearing in the online world
Second Life to do a book
signing/launch for my new novel,
Someone Comes to Town, Someone
Leaves Town. The Second Lifers have been conducting a contest to
see who can come up with the coolest in-game programmed book-object to
decant the novel into, and they've picked a winner:
Falk Bergman was the first to bring me by to have a look at his
prototype in development, a giant book positioned next to a seat.
Sitting on it automatically fixes your camera position in place, to
give you the best possible view of the book.
"The viewer in-world itself is very simple," Falk tells me modestly.
"It is basically a shopping agent with two displays that hooks into
Page Up and Down [on the keyboards] for changing the pages."
Li
nk
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Thanks, Ernest!)
Update: Dragonpage radio have recorded a
podcast with me about the book and it went live today. Here's the MP3 link
Grok Description matches for Cory's talk from ETECH: All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
GrokA matches for Cory's talk from ETECH: All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
Cory's talk from ETECH: All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
