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
block surgeons ifs
If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
ideas dumb faces
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
stuff peers exciting
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
running book character
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.
careers picks
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
may obscurity impossible
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
violence terrorism hundred
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
youtube
I choose YouTube over telly.
dream delight
Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.
helping remember computer
For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
home sky giants
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
advice benefits toilets
Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
creativity ideas differences
Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.
technology
Technology giveth and technology taketh away.