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
hands facts somewhere-out-there
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.
yesterday engineering care
We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
calling want crooks
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
ideas people stuff
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
school different crime
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.
keys giving wish
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
mistake decision rational
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
funny educational school
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.
kings conversation
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
privacy security hard
Like all security, privacy is hard.
security-systems important failing
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
down-and pages looks
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
girl ebay games
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.
kings islands choices
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.