Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorowis a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth17 July 1971
CityToronto, Canada
listening rooms
He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.
email archives knows
if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it
battle firsts casualties
The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
normal abnormal common
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
technology giving privacy
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
laptops deep-relationship knows
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
feelings cards
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
association social-network cop
The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?
hands digital distribution
Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks
robots world isaac
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
mitzvah three bars
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
empirical evidence free increases net points sales
What little empirical evidence is out there points to eBooks and free downloading increases sales on a net basis.
books both longer people skin
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
diversity good less misses narrative species work
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.