Open Culture (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Here’s a good item that came out of yesterday’s book giveaway — Benjamin L called our attention to the fact that you can download a free copy of Little Brother, the new novel by Cory Doctorow, who writes for the popular BoingBoing blog and has consistently backed the whole idea of “open culture.” Released in [...] ShareThis
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cory Doctorow Meets DJ Spooky: A CBLDF Benefit Mashup! Sadly we’ll be out of town, or we’d be there in a flash.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
BoingBoing co-founder, columnist and author Cory Doctorow has thrown his support behind the NDP candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie. Dowson, a family friend of Doctorow, asked him for his endorsement and after interviewing her about her platform he happily gave it. I've just spent half an hour on the phone with Dowson and I'm happy to say that based on what she told me about her platform, I'm absolutely...
Sophistpundit (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Check out the text of Cory Doctorow's talk on " Life in the Information Economy ". I don't have time to read it myself right now, but I look forward to making some for it a little later.
BuzzMachine (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Steve Baker’s book, The Numerati, is about tracking and predicting people’s behavior based on their data, and so he and his publisher are taking a page from the book to try to target advertising for it. Somewhat related: I recommend Cory Doctorow’s new short story, The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered [...]
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Five things worth knowing today - BoingBoing scribe Cory Doctorow chats with DJ Spooky in NYCpossibly the coolest fund-raiser ever thrown for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. - Toronto's Studio Gallery hosts a show of Tim Barber's TV Books,...
girlie jones (Free subscription) | yesterday
So I'm sitting here minding my own business and the phone rings. Am American accent says: You have won a fully paid cruise to the Caribbean. To claim your prize press Nine. I pressed *end call* I've been sitting in the bath reading Cory Doctorow's Little Brother . What else could I have done? Scams scams everywhere!
Gadgets News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Original photo [edjar/Flickr] In a story straight out of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, three MIT undergraduates concocted a scheme to hack Boston's transit payment system, the Charlie Card (no relation). The students managed to reprogram the cards to increase their credit balance, thus allowance them to ride the subway for free. Of course, being MIT students, they decided to write up their prank...
Copyfight (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Cory Doctorow and DJ Spooky on stage together in NYC to benefit the CBLDF. Details here: http://www.cbldf.org/pr/archives/000367.shtml Two very interesting and thoughtful people. Benefiting a great charity. What more could you ask? (except to be in NYC this Thursday night)
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
A quick reminder that there are still some tickets left for Thursday's benefit gig in NYC with DJ Spooky, all proceeds to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: On August 21, Cory Doctorow, award-winning author and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing and experimental writer / artist / musician Paul Miller, a.k.a. D.J. Spooky That Subliminal Kid team up for a multimedia speaking event benefiting the...
LVHRD.ORG (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is putting on a benefit that will feature multimedia presentations by the prophetic free-speech activist Cory Doctorow and experimental writer/artist/musician Paul Miller followed by an open-forum discussion.
Neil Gaiman's Journal (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Mr. G asks that I plug the following: Thursday, August 21 at 7:30 PM at the Helen Mills Theater on 137-139 West 26th Street NYC 10001 New York, NY -- On August 21, Cory Doctorow, award-winning author and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing and experimental writer / artist / musician Paul Miller, a.k.a. D.J. Spooky That Subliminal Kid team up for a multimedia speaking event benefiting the Comic...
The Social Customer Manifesto (Free subscription) | yesterday
This post is one of a series of recommendations arrived at by going through the entire list of South by Southwest panels that are up for consideration for 2009. Important: Would love your support for "FlashMarkets: From the Roman Agora...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008 | Business
Lately, I’ve become a big fan of the simple online mixtape creation tool Muxtape . I’ve always loved creating mixtapes for friends and this tool was the best solution out there; recently, it became so popular that several tools like Muxtape Stumbler have been built around it. Unfortunately, I doubt we’ll be having much more fun with Muxtape in the future, as the site now sports only the following...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interviews and Profiles: @Publishers Weekly: Liz Williams ( The Shadow Pavilion ). @SF Scope: Mike Allen , editor of Clockwork Phoenix . @Pretty/Scary: Ann VanderMeer . @SciFi Wire: John Marks ( Fangland ). @The Nebula Awards: Matthew Hughes . @Galaxiki: David Prowse (Darth Vader) [from last April]. @Wired: Neal Stephenson ( Anathem ). [via Yatterings ] @Fantasybookspot: Steven Brust ( Vlad Taltos...
