Jen Robinson's Book Page (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Book: Little Brother Author: Cory Doctorow Pages: 384 Age Range: 13 and up Background: Cory Doctorow's Little Brother has been extensively reviewed in both the blogs and the mainstream press. The review that first made me interested enough to read...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Blogger Cory Doctorow visits the cool L.A. comic shop Secret Headquarters:
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
I’m moderating a discussion at Firedoglake on Cory Doctorow’s new book Little Brother, starting about now (with Cory himself as main attraction). If you’re interested, drop by.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Cory Doctorow has a multitude of talents. He's a co-editor of BoingBoing, the fifth most popular blog on the Internet according to Technorati, where he purveys a mixture of technology news, links to strange and wonderful things, and left wing politics. He's been a front line fighter in the wars over intellectual property; he used to be the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Director of...
Sophistpundit (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Cory Doctorow writes: Hurrah! Tor, my US novel publisher, has launched Tor.com, its major, fantastically awesome website, which is part sf zine, part group-blog, part social network. They're publishing great original fiction -- they've got stories by John Scalzi and Charlie Stross up now, and I've got one coming soon, called THE THINGS THAT MAKE ME WEAK AND STRANGE GET ENGINEERED AWAY...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... about the fact that a couple of dinosauric entertainment companies are determined to screw it up? Cory Doctorow is a blogger, science fiction writer and journalist. He is an editor of Boing Boing, the 11th best blog in the world (according to Time Magazine). He was the 2006-2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He founded the software...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Cory visits one of his favorite comic book stores in all the world -- Secret Headquarters, in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. With shop owner Dave Pifer, he walks us through some of the graphic novels and comics he loves, everything from manga to zine howto manuals to Jodorowsky to Warren Ellis. Cory is particularly fond (as are all of us at BBtv) of the shop's awesome simultaneous...
Status-Q (Free subscription) | yesterday
A great talk by Cory Doctorow last night - he spoke for an hour but packed in more words than most people would manage in two hours, and certainly more insights. One phrase I liked: “Innovation happens when people can afford to fail” This is exactly right. I’ve said a similar thing before in a talk about [...]
Chatiryworld (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... more than typing up letters and colouring in plans, but I liked the connection with my granny. Cory Doctorow (who took the photo above) of BoingBoing visited Bletchley recently and wrote a great post about it .
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
The complexity of sharing scientific databases Creative Commons is a clever use of the copyright system intended to make it easier for people who want to, to share their work with others. Jonathan Coulton has used Creative Commons to enable an army of remixers and videomakers to produce promotional materials for his songs and albums. Authors like Dan Gillmor and Cory Doctorow have used...
Giles Bowkett (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Sky God's Gift To Griefers: Portable EMP Tim Robbins Directs 1984 The Diamond Age Begins I Filter Cory Doctorow So You Don't Have To Darth Giles Governments Really Don't Understand Legacy Hardwar... Why I Need More Ducats Evolution Music Tech: Gizmodo Links Female Programmers: Read This Book Unintended Side Effect? Porno Music Videos Robotic Fish: Externally Autistic, Internally Psyc...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... for "Positive Fandom" A technical snafu is keeping Elizabeth Bear's new book off the shelves? Cory Doctorow answers your Little Brother questions at the Fire Dog Lake Book Salon PeTA makes list of top 10 animal-friendly superheroes Very nice Readercon summary from Matthew Cheney A movement is born: "Send Alan Moore a Fiver" if you go to see The Watchmen (Via Forbidden Plant blog ) Fiction:...
Mock, Paper, Scissors (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Anyone surprised? Air Force defies Congress, spends anti-terrorism money on “comfort capsules” with “aesthetically pleasing wall treatments/coverings” from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow From the WashPo: The Air Force’s top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on “comfort capsules” to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders...
Shadow of the Hegemon (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Remember I did a bit on Sean Tevin ? The Kansas blogger that was leveraging the Internet to find 3000 donors, a number considered heretofore-impossible? Well, he not only did it, he got five thousand and counting . That says two things to me. First, don't screw with Cory Doctorow, he's got power . Second, that what Obama did is replicable . It isn't just about personality. It's about...
nf0's Life (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow I started reading the free download version and decided to support Cory Doctorow by buying the hardcopy. I thought this was an awesome book. So many good elements to it I couldn’t really stop reading it and finished it up quickly. I know it’s for young adults but it also good for [...]
