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Cory Doctorow: Still one step ahead
Cory Doctorow: Still one step ahead
02/15/2004 10:44 AMCory Doctorow has relicensed his book,
Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom. Last year he released it under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs -- license. In so doing, he proved
conventional wisdom about "free distribution" wrong -- the book did
exceptionally well. Now, without even waiting for the rest of the
publishing world to catch up, he's taken the next great leap: the book
is now available under one of the least restrictive licenses --
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Already, cool versions are
emerging. Here's a Speed Reading tool for both new books by
Trevor Smith.
The world adapts to Cory Doctorow...
The world adapts to Cory Doctorow...
10/29/2003 07:09 PMMy theory regarding the awesome O'Reilly-sponsored wifi at Foyles
café on Charing Cross Road goes a little like this:
Tim O'Reilly: "Hey Cory, how you doing?"
Cory Doctorow: "You know what sucks? Wifi in London."
Tim O'Reilly: "Hmm..." {thinks}
Live from ETech: Cory Doctorow and
e-books...
Live from ETech: Cory Doctorow and
e-books...
02/12/2004 04:46 PMWarning: What follows makes increasingly little sense. Day Three
Proper of ETech has resulted in a certain lack of mental flexibility
and a weird warm grinding feeling at the temples as my over-saturated
lobes rub together...
So in a few weeks I'm presenting a piece on e-publishing and
weblogs at the London Book Fair. To be honest, I've never understood
the compound, "e-publishing". It seems to mean different things to
different people at different times. For most people it seems to bear
little or no relationship to what I consider publishing online - ie.
those content-rich sites like BBC News
Online and TimeOut.com or
weblog-style stuff or in fact anything browser-readable, but
instead just that highly narrow field of e-book publishing (generally
considered as some kind of proprietary text-based format glued into a
PDA or piece of dedicated e-book-reading hardware / software). In a
nutshell, then, I didn't really consider it terribly interesting.
I was surprised, then, to see Cory Doctorow talking on the
subject at Emerging Tech. I mean, obviously I knew that he'd released
his books online under a Creative Commons license and obviously I'd
known that had been quite a successful and publicity-garnering thing
to have done, but - to be honest - I'd somehow never really made the
connection between that and "e-books". In my mind an e-book was little
more than a species of niche electronic emphemera designed to sit
within a tiny ecosystem of highly-tech-friendly but not particularly
tech-savvy over-monied poseurs. So, why would that have any connection
with Cory? I mean - he basically slapped the plain-text of the book
onto the web. Which is - you know - useful. Where's the
connection?
Forty-five minutes later, of course, and my views are different.
It's not that Cory said that much which was alien to my sensibility or
world-view - in a sense he's preaching to the converted - but I've now
got slightly more of an understanding of the publishing of books
'electronically' as a spectrum rather than as a set of rather
problematic models in competition with each other. Which demonstrates,
I guess, what a dumbass I was fifty minutes ago. Still... I guess it's
good that I can face up to that, right?
Anyway - I've stuck up my personal
transcript and understanding of his piece and I recommend everyone
read it.
More importantly, Cory did a really cool thing just before getting
off-stage - he's releasing even more of the rights to "Down and Out in
the Magic Kingdom" under a Creative Commons license. Originally it was
just free to distribute, but not to change or undertake any derivative
works. But now - as long as it's uncommercial - he's freed up
derivative works as well. This is more important than it might sound -
it means that individuals can make t-shirts or badges on the one hand
(as long as it's non-commercial), but more significantly, they can now
make and distribute reader translations of the book without trouble
and they can even write fan-fiction and slash without any trouble -
just as long as these translations and derivative works are
distributed under the same terms. Very interesting and worthy of
considerable celebration and approval. More later...
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Talk"
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Talk"
06/22/2004 03:37 PMCory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM
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06/19/2004 06:11 AMDisinformation Jun 19 2004 10:12AM GMT
Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights
Management
Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights
Management
06/18/2004 07:51 AMPor qué el DRM no funciona para nadie,
según Cory Doctorow
Por qué el DRM no funciona para nadie,
según Cory Doctorow
06/18/2004 04:57 AM[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 responds to Wired Editor on DRM
Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM
12/29/2004 06:33 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Chris Anderson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, has responded
to
my blog-post in which I take issue with Wired's latest
product-review magazine, which breathes hardly a mention of DRM even
as it reviews devices that are all crapped up with
studio-paranoia-generated restriction technology.
Chris takes a "middle ground" position that I've heard described as
"radical centrism" -- his position is that the EFF's opposition to DRM
is "idealistic" and that there is therefore a practical "reality" that
is better suited to the world. I think it's a false dichotomy, and I'd
like to have a little go at Chris's post here and see if I can show
why:
Consumers want more content, easier-to-use technology, and cheaper
prices. If some form of DRM encourages publishers, consumer
electronics makers and retailers to release more, better and cheaper
digital media and devices, that's not necessarily a bad thing. This is
just being realistic: much as we might want it to be otherwise,
content owners still call most of the shots. If a little protection
allows them to throw their weight behind a lot of progress towards
realizing the potential of digital media, consumers will see a net
benefit.
This is the crux of the argument. It starts out by saying that DRM is
protection. And protection makes Hollywood comfortable. And a
comfortable Hollywood will release more material. And the more
material there is, the cheaper it will get.
But all of those propositions are materially untrue. Start with "DRM
is protection." DRM is not protection. There has never been a
DRM-covered file that was kept off the Internet. Ever. DRM has never
once in the history of the field kept a file from appearing online, or
from being booted by organized crime pirates. Despite its rhetoric on
this, Hollywood is perfectly aware of how bogus the DRM-is-protection
claim is; any entertainment exec you put on this spot on this will
retreat to a badly-thought-out mantra to the effect that "DRM is a
speedbump, it's not meant to keep files off the Internet, it's meant
to 'keep honest users honest.'" As Ed Felten has pointed out, keeping
an honest user honest is like keeping a tall user tall. DRM may keep a
naive user from buying a cheap DVD abroad and bringing it home, and it
may make it possible to charge you for things that you used to get for
free, like format-shifting, but it won't ever keep an honest user
honest.
DRM isn't protection from piracy. DRM is protection from competition.
If you believe that "much as we might want it to be otherwise, content
owners still call most of the shots," then you believe that the guy
who makes the record should get a veto over the design of the record
player. That the film studios should be able to ban the VCR. That the
recording industry should have been able to shove SDMI down all our
throats and make MP3 disappear.
This is a profoundly ahistorical proposition. Never in the history of
media from the dawn of the printing press right up to the invention of
the DVD have we afforded this kind of privilege to incumbent
rightsholders. Quite the contrary: at every turn, brave entrepreneurs
have engaged in "piracy" of copyrighted works (through devices like
the record player, radio, cable television and VCR) and kept at it
until the law caught up with the technology.
It's different with the DVD. With the DVD, the electronics companies
completely wimped out. They traded their customers to the studios for
two packs of cigarettes, and the result has been a decade of stagnation in DVD players. There's no indication
that movies are being released sooner or more cheaply on DVD than they
were on VHS; and in fact, the release of movies on VHS was preceded by
incredible, absurd hyperbole about the video-cassette's inevitable
destruction of the film industry and the compelte impossibility of a
movie ever being released by a studio for viewing on your VCR.
If you believe that "content owners still call most of the shots" then
you believe that the studios will make movies and just not release
them, they will amass a great pile of unreleased material in
their Hollywood vaults and sit before the doors, arms folded, glaring
at the world until it arranges itself into a more accomodating
configuration. It is ridiculous. DRM hasn't convinced the
studios to put new material online -- the offerings that the studios
have put online are a pathetic shadow of the material one can download
from the P2P networks. The studios have all the DRM in the universe
at their disposal, but they're not using it to bring new material to
market.
Nope, they're using it to sell you the same crap for more money. Chris
loves his Microsoft Media Center PC, "essentially a DVR on steroids"
-- at least, he loves it so far. That's because he hasn't been bitten
on the ass by it yet, like
this guy, who bought a Media Center PC so that he could catch the
Sopranos and burn them to DVD. When he bought the PC, it was capable
of doing that. Halfway through the season, the studios reached into
his living room and broke his PC, disabling the feature that allowed
him to burn his Sopranos episodes to DVD. And if you got suckered into
letting your cable company give you a "free" PVR, you've got a nasty
shock coming this season:
your episodes of Six Feet Under will delete themselves from your hard
drive after two weeks, whether you've gotten around to watching
them or not.
If you want to watch all the Sopranos or Six Feet Unders in a row at
the end of the season, you'll have to do it on Pay Per View. You'll
have to buy what you used to get for free: the right to record a show
and watch it for as long as you'd like. You get less, you pay more.
And the studios can change the rules of the game after you've bought
the box and brought it home: the only way you can protect your
investment is if you can somehow ensure that no studio executive
decides to revoke one of the features you paid for back when the box
was on the show-room floor. Remember, these are the same studio execs
who are duking it out for the right to limit how long a pause
button can work for.
Chris likes the iTunes Music Store, calling it a success, but it's got
the same problems as the Media Center and all the other DRM devices.
The record labels can demand that Apple
selectively break your music player,
removing features based on secret negotiations, long after you've
made your purchases. Apple will even
force "updates" on you that removes features that you've chosen to
add to your device,
shutting you out of listening to your own music on the player you
shelled out good money for.
The problem is that once your device vendor sells you out to the
studios, they're 0wned. The studios' protection racket lets them
demand practically anything from a device vendor -- check
out "selectable output control" for some truly heinous
world-domination horseshit.
So, Chris, that's why I disagree with your "realistic" notion:
- There's no reason to believe that DRM makes more content
available
- There's no reason to let the studios "call the shots" -- we
haven't before this
- There's no reason to believe that DRM makes media cheaper, quite
the contrary
- The features that make your "reasonable" DRM palatable to the
market today can and are rescinded tomorrow
If I were in Chris's seat, I would be sure that every single review of
a DRM device carried the following notice:
WARNING: THIS DEVICE'S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO
REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET
NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE
WORLD'S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE
AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU
USED TO GET FOR FREE -- BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL
YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY
ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE
ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY'RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE,
PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT'LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.
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Editor on DRM
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Editor on DRM
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Cory Doctorow: "Libros electrónicos: ni
libros, ni electrónicos..."
Cory Doctorow: "Libros electrónicos: ni
libros, ni electrónicos..."
04/25/2004 12:01 AM"E.L. Doctorow"
"E.L. Doctorow"
09/25/2004 09:51 PM""Doctorow"
""Doctorow"
05/26/2004 07:51 PMDoctorow Argues Against DRM
Doctorow Argues Against DRM
06/18/2004 11:10 AMNew Doctorow novel out under license
New Doctorow novel out under license
02/10/2004 02:41 AM
Cory Doctorow, author of the acclaimed sci-fi book Down and Out in the Magic
Kingdom, has a new novel out in stores called Eastern Standard Tribe. Like Down
and Out, it is both available for purchase as
well as for free
download, under a Creative Commons license.
Craphound.com still down, use
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Craphound.com still down, use
doctorow@well.com
08/12/2004 04:18 AMIf the redexes weren't enough of a tip-off, here's the confirmation.
The DNS for craphound.com is down again -- screw you, Dotster. In the
meantime, keep on sending your mail to
doctorow@well.com. -Cory
Craphound.com is down, use
doctorow@well.com for the time being
Craphound.com is down, use
doctorow@well.com for the time being
08/10/2004 10:34 AM
I changed registrars this morning and my DNS went blooie.
Craphound.com may be down for a while -- that means that some of the
images on Boing Boing -- which I host there -- may be broken, and that
my mail may go away, too (God, I hope this doesn't happen). In any
case, please send all mail to
doctorow@well.com until further
notice.
Thanks!
Cory
Doctorow: Ebooks Neither E Nor Books
Doctorow: Ebooks Neither E Nor Books
02/13/2004 12:00 PMLessig and Doctorow, Truth and Fiction,
on Swiss Wi-Fi
Lessig and Doctorow, Truth and Fiction,
on Swiss Wi-Fi
12/13/2003 01:53 PMCory Doctorow, true-life rights defender and novelist, exposes a chunk
of his work-in-progress, while pointing to Larry Lessig, true-life
true-intent-of-copyright defender, who rants: Cory's notes the
anti-openness and generally confusing nature of using Wi-Fi in
Switzerland, a country that revels in expense in general, in an
excerpt from his newest work-in-progress, based on his experience in
Switzerland. He points to Lessig's post about ironically having the
worst possible time connecting at the World Summit on the Information
Society. In both cases, they're talking mostly about a single
provider, Swiss Telecom, which doesn't appear to want "drop-in" users.
I was recently in Whistler, B.C., a ski resort community with a
township around it, where there are now two competing ubiquitous Wi-Fi
networks. Curse my luck, the condo unit my wife and I rented could
barely receive the signal of both--not strong enough to be useful. But
both services also required out-of-band connections: you had to go to
some store or kiosk to purchase specific periods of time. So instead
of Wi-Fi, I skied, and apres-ski, I went to Internet cafes, where I
spent a total of about US$8 over three days for a couple of hours of
access....
ADHOC 2005 Speakers: Hubbard, Doctorow,
Ihnatko
ADHOC 2005 Speakers: Hubbard, Doctorow,
Ihnatko
04/11/2005 08:22 PMAdam C. Engst (~170 words)
ADHOC 2005 Speakers: Hubbard,
Doctorow, Ihnatko -- I'm once again planning to speak at
ADHOC 2005 (previously known as MacHack), but my interest in attending
just went up even more upon learning that the ADHOC committee has
lined up some great people to speak at the three midnight sessions,
including Jordan Hubbard, Apple's manager of the Darwin core of Mac OS
X, and Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, blogger, and European
Affairs Coordinator for the EFF. The final midnight session is the
ADHOC Showcase programming competition, which will be hosted by the
ever-amusing and effervescent Andy Ihnatko. If you're interested in
learning more about programming from some of the best developers in
the business and hearing from some fascinating speakers, the early
registration deadline is 15-Apr-05. Hope to see you in Dearborn,
Michigan from 26-Jul-05 through 31-Jul-05, and if you need a better
sense of the conference, read my article about last year's event.
[ACE]
Cory off for the weekend
Cory off for the weekend
07/16/2004 05:16 AMI'm off for my birthday weekend now. No email, no Web access, no
blogging: just idyllic relaxation in an undisclosed location. See you
all on Monday, at which point I will have turned 33, entering Club 33
the hard way.
cory on drm @ msft
cory on drm @ msft
06/19/2004 04:28 AMCory's
speech at
Microsoft on the mistake of DRM.
Wise Cory
Wise Cory
12/23/2003 06:50 PM I'm fond of these words of wisdom from Cory: The last twenty years
were about technology. The next twenty years are about policy... I
have a special request to the toolmakers of 2004: stop making tools
that magnify and multilply awkward social situations An important note
for 2004: stop trying to build an Internet without malefactors,
parasites, freeriders and inefficiency. See you next year, Cory. Or,
more accurately: If you're Cory and you're reading this, then it is
net year....
Cory omigod
Cory omigod
09/23/2004 08:29 AMCory's presentation to Microsoft on why DRM is bad for us and bad for
them is other-worldly in its brilliance. Damn funny, too. in It is a
must-read. In fact, it's a must-be-chiseled-into-lintels. (It's in pdf
and it's presented by ChangeThis.)...
Congrats to Cory
Congrats to Cory
03/20/2003 04:23 PMHow nuts is it that Cory'
s book was reviewed by Jeff
Bezos and Harriet Klausner, Amazon's #1 reviewer?
And speaking of, how on earth does someone review 4605 products
(almost all books) in just a few years? I'm seeing 4-5 lengthy book
reviews per day in some of her history, how on earth does someone do
such a thing?
I've seen the future, and they are Cory
and Joi
I've seen the future, and they are Cory
and Joi
03/13/2003 10:22 AM
Joi and Cory live in the future and have
the
cameras to prove it. Joi also had an amazing japanese cell phone
that featured two cameras hidden inside it. He could switch between
shooting from the back of it, to the front of it (taking a photo of
yourself using it).
I wish I recorded some audio during lunch as there was an almost
magical symphony of forks hitting plates that created a strange
cacophony the speakers had to outdo.
Cory in Ottawa Citizen
Cory in Ottawa Citizen
06/08/2004 07:14 AMOn May 30, the
Ottawa
Citizen ran a great profile on me and my books, with a sidebar on
other authors who ppost their work online. The Citizen has a weird
policy where they only let subscribers see their online archives, but
Brent Kirwan, a generous reader, has sent me a high-resolution photo
of the newspaper spread where you can read it yourself.
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JPEG LinkCory looses yet more control
Cory looses yet more control
02/13/2004 03:48 PM Cory has altered the Creative Commons license on Down and Out in the
Magic Kingdom so that almost any non-commercial adaptation of it does
not require his permission. If you want to turn it into a movie or
republish it via skywriting, please go ahead. BTW, you can read the
text of Cory's talk at Emerging Tech here....
Cory on Asimov's I, Robot
Cory on Asimov's I, Robot
06/22/2004 01:44 PMI wrote the cover story for this month's Wired Magazine, about
Asimov's robot stories and the new I, Robot movie.
Yet Asimov's reductionist approach to human interaction may be his
most lasting influence. His thinking is alive and well and likely
filling your inbox at this moment with come-ons asking you to identify
your friends and rate their "sexiness" on a scale of one to three.
Today's social networking services like Friendster and Orkut collapse
the subtle continuum of friendship and trust into a blunt equation
that says, "So-and-so is indeed my friend," and "I trust so-and-so to
see all my other 'friends.'" These systems demand that users configure
their relationships in a way that's easily modeled in software. It
reflects a mechanistic view of human interaction: "If Ann likes Bob
and Bob hates Cindy, then Ann hates Cindy." The idea that we can take
our social interactions and code them with an Asimovian algorithm
("allow no harm, obey all orders, protect yourself") is at odds with
the messy, unpredictable world. The Internet succeeds because it is
nondeterministic and unpredictable: The Net's underlying TCP/IP
protocol makes no quality of service guarantees and promises nothing
about the route a message will take or whether it will arrive.
This need for people to behave in a predictable, rational, measurable
way recalls Mr. Spock's autistic inability to understand human emotion
without counting dimples to discern happiness or frown lines to
identify sorrow. It's likewise reminiscent of scientology, which uses
quantitative charts of personality traits, such as "lack of accord"
and "certainty," to help people become 100 percent happy, composed,
and so on.
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Help Cory pirate his own story!
Help Cory pirate his own story!
09/01/2004 01:43 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Science Fiction World, a Chinese magazine, recently published an issue
with a translation of my story "Nimby and the D-Hoppers" (originally
published in June 2003). They didn't ask first, so technically this is
a "pirate" edition, but hell, I'm not all that worked up about it --
I'm pretty pumped to know that there are people in China reading my
stuff (and for what it's worth, foreign publishers usually pay teeny
little pittances for translation rights to short stories).
My only peeve here is that they never sent me a copy, and never put
their translation on the Web. I sent 'em some email but they never
answered.
So here's my challenge to the lazyweb: track down a copy of the
September issue of Science Fiction World and re-type the story that
starts on page 12 ("Technological Opposition and the
Dimension-Hopper") and send it to me. I'll post it on the Internet and
make it available under a Creative Commons license for free
reproduction.
Link
(Thanks, Joel!)
Earlier this month, Cory
Earlier this month, Cory
04/26/2004 04:11 PM
Earlier this month, Cory blogged one man's amazingly detailed
reproduction of a Tron
costume<
/a>. Now, our pal Gabe ups the ante
with a pointer to Jay Maynard's masterwork.
Link Cory on holiday for the weekend
Cory on holiday for the weekend
07/01/2004 03:34 AMCory's off for the rest of the weekend -- I won't be answering email
or the phone again until Monday morning. See you then!
Cory speaking on Jan 28 in Novato
Cory speaking on Jan 28 in Novato
01/22/2004 02:46 AMI'm giving a talk ("Copyright, the Web, and Innovation") for the North
Bay Multimedia Association on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004 from 6:30 PM -
9:00 PM at the Marin Community Foundation in Novato, CA.
There's nothing new about a copyright crisis: the ability to
automatically reproduce work has been contentious since the Gutenberg
Bible -- and as recently as the mid-Eighties, when the Hollywood
studios tried to outlaw the VCR, calling it "the Boston Strangler of
the American film-industry."
Is it any wonder that the web, with its ability to move, organize and
reproduce information without control or oversight, has precipitated
another crisis? Course not.
What is a wonder is that any number of otherwise bright and
well-meaning lawmakers, geeks and businesspeople are behaving as
though the proper response to a collision between copyright and
technology is limits on technology -- imagine if recorded music had
been "limited" to ensure that it didn't disrupt the sheet-music
business! (It almost was -- and recorded music was only rescued
through a Hail Mary act of Congress that legitimized piano rolls in
1908)
Today, the notion that technology should "compromise" with
rights-holders is a tremendous threat to the open Web. The recording
industry is indiscriminately abusing copyright law to sue 70,000
American file-sharers into submission. The Hollywood companies are
getting the FCC to regulate the basic components of the PC.
LinkCory pitched to Microsoft that DRM is
bad for their business.
Cory pitched to Microsoft that DRM is
bad for their business.
06/18/2004 08:36 PMCory pitched to Microsoft
that DRM is bad for their business. I'm surprised he didn't use
the recent example of HD-DVD. Apparently the DVD Forum was considering
the Jon Johansen Problem and came up with a simple solution: computers
will never ever be able to play HD-DVD movies under any circumstances.
After all, this solution worked for SACD. (This doesn't address the
Bunnie Huang Problem, but let's leave that for later.) Microsoft
immediately protested that this would lock them out of their plan to
converge PCs and home theaters. (I have no clue what Steve Jobs is
thinking when he calls for strong DRM in HD-DVD; by definition if
HD-DVDs are playable in OS X then the DRM is weak. Maybe he's willing
to concede that market since he hates TV anyway.)
Cory teaching Clarion in 2005
Cory teaching Clarion in 2005
07/28/2004 05:48 AMIn 1992, I graduated from the Clarion Writers' Workshop at Michigan
State University, the famed six-week "boot-camp for science-fiction
writers." It was an amazing experience: my instruction from the likes
of Damon Knight, James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy Kress and
Kate Wilhelm forever changed me as a writer and a person.
Therefore, it is a stupendous honour to be able to announce that I
will be returning to Clarion next year, as part of the 2005 roster of
instructors. My co-instructors will be Joan Vinge, Charles Coleman
Finlay, Gwyneth Jones, Walter John Williams and Leslie What.
Clarion is in transition this year, as funding cuts at MSU will
require a change of venue. Here are some details:
Among the options being considered are moving the workshop to another
university or becoming an independent non-profit organization, along
the lines of Clarion West. In either event, Clarion is likely to leave
its long-time home in East Lansing and is actively soliciting
suggestions for new location(s) and offers from organizations or
groups willing to host the workshop. “I think it’s past
time for Clarion to make a transition to a new venue and a new
structure,” said Board Member James Patrick Kelly. The Clarion
Board is calling on alumni and friends of the workshop to volunteer to
help with the transition. “We need to work on fundraising,
communications, and administration,” said Kelly.
“We’re encouraging people who believe in Clarion to get
involved with everything from putting together our newsletter to
helping choose the instructors and lots in between.” To that
end, the Clarion Board of Directors, which currently consists of
Matheson, Kelly, Kate Wilhelm, Maureen McHugh, Karen Joy Fowler, Tim
Powers, and former Clarion director Tess Tavormina will be looking to
reconstitute itself and expand its membership.
LinkCory at PenguiCon near Detroit next
weekend
Cory at PenguiCon near Detroit next
weekend
04/16/2005 09:52 AMCory Doctorow:
Just a reminder that I'll be appearing as the Guest of Honor at
PenguiCon, a Linux and Science Fiction convention being held in
Detroit next weekend, from April 22-24. I'll be giving talks on I,
Robot, copyleft, folk art, open source licensing and open spectrum,
and I'll be doing a reading and conducting the charity auction. Other
guests include the founders of Slashdot, Eric Raymond, Nat Torkington,
Joan Vinge, Kathe Koja, and Joey DeVilla.
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Cory coming to Seattle next week
Cory coming to Seattle next week
04/07/2005 07:44 AMCory Doctorow:
I'm coming to Seattle next week for the
Computers, Freedom and
Privacy conference. Here's where you can catch me:
- a panel called "Cyberliberties and the World of Tomorrow -
Science Fiction Authors on the Future of Computers, Freedom, and
Privacy" with David Brin and Eileen Gunn, Thursday April 14 at 4:15PM
- emceeing EFF's Pioneer Awards at the
Sci Fi Museum, 7:00PM on Wednesday, April 13th.
- reading/speech/signing with David
Brin on Tuesday April 12th, 7-9PM, JBL Theater, located adjacent to
Sci Fi Museum in EMP, 325 5th Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109 (free)
Cory to be Guest of Honor at Penguincon
Cory to be Guest of Honor at Penguincon
09/08/2004 07:14 AM
Cory Doctorow:
I'm the Guest of Honor at PenguinCon 3.0, a science fiction and Linux
conference held near Detroit April 22-24, 2005. This is my first Guest
of Honor-ship -- it's pretty cool news! Also on the bill is Wil
Wheaton -- it'll be great to see him again.
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