Comments for Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Comment on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:08 +0000

Nope. This one predates CC licenses themselves by some years, and as I no longer have a relationship with the publisher, I'm not able to negotiate such a thing.

Comment on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction by MMS

MMS — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:16:23 +0000

Is there a CC version available for download?

Comment on Why you should care about surveillance by Locus Online Blinks » Blinks: Banks’ last interview; Doctorow on surveillance; Pynchon

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:08:34 +0000

[...] » Cory Doctorow: Why You Should Care About Surveillance [...]

Comment on Class remixes of Little Brother from Cathedral Prep in Queens, NY by Mr. Wierzbicki

Mr. Wierzbicki — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:57:42 +0000

Very proud of you all! Thank you for the hard work and I also thank those who take the time to read our work!

Comment on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01 by Synthetic Voices #18 - May 2013 Top Picks - Amazing Stories

Synthetic Voices #18 - May 2013 Top Picks - Amazing Stories — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:34:44 +0000

[...] never read Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, you’re in luck. Since the middle of March Doctorow has been rereading the book on his podcast to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Down and [...]

Comment on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01 by Synthetic Voices #18 – May 2013 Top Picks | Science Is Magic

Synthetic Voices #18 – May 2013 Top Picks | Science Is Magic — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:13:01 +0000

Comment on Anonymizing is really hard really, so why is the EU acting like it’s easy? by Jay Lofstead

Jay Lofstead — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:56:23 +0000

We had a panel at the IPDPS (http://www.ipdps.org/) conference a couple of weeks ago about Big Data. When I asked the panel "is it possible to anonymize data sets anymore?" no one had an answer. The moderator, from Microsoft, tried to elicit a response, but none of the panelists had thought about the downside to Big Data at all. With people in academia and the US national lab system working with Big Data not seeing these problems, I fear that we are not devoting enough effort to trying to determine IF we can keep anything private and still have a useful data set to work with.

Comment on Printcrime by FoW

FoW — Wed, 29 May 2013 11:26:57 +0000

New Korean fan-translation link - https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rF5Xyr5ayL8C

Comment on Little Brother by Book Review: Homeland by Cory Doctorow

Book Review: Homeland by Cory Doctorow — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:39 +0000

[...] Cory Doctorow‘s sequel to Little Brother, revisits San Francisco several years after the Bay Bridge is destroyed in the worst terrorist [...]

Comment on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 05 by The Verklempt Librarian » ALB- “cast”ing the net for the next big thing!

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:58:08 +0000

[...] Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast, craphound.com/?p=4750 [...]

Comment on Interview with the Singularity Weblog by Zombie

Zombie — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:04:49 +0000

I love the whole take on "singularity". Great interview!

Comment on My Berlin talk: “It’s not a fax machine connect to a waffle iron” by Daniel Reid

Daniel Reid — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:44:51 +0000

Ironically on my Mac I can't turn the volume up high enough to play this in my classroom from Youtube. Any help is appreciated.

Comment on My Berlin talk: “It’s not a fax machine connect to a waffle iron” by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:35:03 +0000

Thank you, Graham! That's amazing!

Comment on My Berlin talk: “It’s not a fax machine connect to a waffle iron” by Graham Larkin

Graham Larkin — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:33:16 +0000

Bravo Cory. Great answer to the question about how children could contribute to your vision of internet-age freedom. I've transcribed it onto this board:

http://pinterest.com/pin/339177415656710983/

RIP Aaron Swartz

Comment on Publishing should fight ebook retailers for more data by Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:17:46 +0000

It is perhaps not surprising that Amazon refuses to share basic data with publishers, whom it clearly perceives as rivals. What's astonishing is that Amazon's INVESTORS aren't demanding more information. AMZN's forward price-to-earnings ratio is over 100: investors are willing to shovel in cash, billions of dollars, with no current expectation of getting it back out of earnings.

Are they hoping to make it all back when the company achieves a complete monopoly, and can raise prices freely? Who knows?

Anyway, despite the paucity of official data, one can still work with publicly available information to come up with some interesting figures. Here's one: in 2012 the average e-book earned its author just $297.

Source: http://www.mikecooper.com/2013/04/average-e-book-earned-just-297-last-year/

That's a lot less than Amazon's earnings.

Comment on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02 – fixed by Evan Prodromou

Evan Prodromou — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:29:21 +0000

The MP3 link goes to part 3.

Comment on Fox sends fraudulent takedown notices for my novel Homeland by Thad

Thad — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:06:11 +0000

It's most likely being flagged by automated software, not an actual human being -- see Ars's piece at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/not-that-homeland-fox-sends-bogus-takedowns-for-copyright-reformers-book/ , which notes that in 2011 WB sent a takedown notice for the URL "http://hotfile.com/contacts.html and give them the details of where the link was posted and the link and they will deal with the @sshole who posted the fake."

I think you've actually hit on the "How could anyone be so careless?" question with your observation about the massive loophole in proving fraudulent takedowns are deliberate: it's actually easier for a company to claim it didn't KNOWINGLY issue a fraudulent takedown notice if it intentionally uses the broadest, most poorly-designed automated takedown system possible.

The less thought and care they put into issuing takedowns, the more legal protection they have when they send out a fraudulent one.

Comment on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 04 by Gary

Gary — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:09:43 +0000

looks like part 3 never made it to the feed but is available on archive.org.
https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_244

Comment on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 04 by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:27:00 +0000

Here you go!
https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_245

Comment on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 04 by colin

colin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:41:33 +0000

what happened to part 3?