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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 034

Here's part thirty-four of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Thanks to John Williams for mastering!

Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com

John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He likes to meditate, to read and to cook.

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Printcrime in Korean

Sejin Choi has translated my story Printcrime into Korean!

경찰들은 내가 여덟 살 때 아빠의 프린터를 박살냈다. 프린터가 뿜어내던 열기와 전자렌지에 식품 포장용 랩을 돌렸을 때 나는 것과 비슷한 그 냄새 그리고 아빠가 프린터에 신선한 찐득이를 채워 넣을 때 열중하던 모습, 프린터에서 갓 구워져 나온 물건의 감촉이 아직도 생생하다.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 033 FIXED

Here's part thirty-three of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Thanks to John Williams for mastering!

Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com

John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He likes to meditate, to read and to cook.

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Homemade Braille edition of Little Brother from Detroit public school teacher

Patricia Smith is a teacher of visually impaired students in Detroit's public school system. She mailed me a copy of my YA novel Little Brother that she had run off her school's Braille embosser and supplied to her students. She reports, "What I could not enclose is the gratitude from my Braille reading students. For various reasons, most books in Braille are aimed at younger children. My students are all between the ages of 12 and 15 and have no real interest in reading a Kindergarten level book. I was finally able to give them something interesting, compelling, and, most importantly at their grade level." Patricia notes that she was able to do this only because the text of the novel is available as a free, Creative Commons licensed download (though US copyright law grants her the right to prepare a Braille edition of any book, the cost of doing so from a traditional printed book is prohibitive, and converting from a DRM-crippled ebook is technically difficult).

Braille Little Brother, courtesy of Patricia Smith of the Detroit public school system, the office, Clerkenwell, London, UK

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 033 — IGNORE THIS ONE!

D'oh, posted the wrong MP3 here. Fixing it now, will post to the feed in a minute or two. Sorry!

Here's part thirty-three of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Thanks to John Williams for mastering!

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Fan-annotated site for Little Brother

@Halvais, a fan of my novel Little Brother, has set up a wiki-style site with the full text of the book for group annotation with links and commentary. Sweet!

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More video interviews on libraries, media literacy and activism

Here's some more pieces of that interview I did with the At Your Library folks on media literacy, activism and libraries.

Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now for Android, iPhone and DSi

The Robot Comics folks have been industriously converting my Creative Commons licensed IDW graphic novel, Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now (which collects six of my short stories adapted to comics form by an array of talented writers and editors) to a multiplicity of mobile phone platforms. This is all under the auspices of the CC license and all the resulting comics are free -- there's stuff for Android, the Nintendo DSi, and the iPhone/iPod Touch (Apple finally caved and decided that the panel depicting an orc in a video-game being decapitated didn't disqualify the comic of Anda's Game from being included as a freebie in the iPhone store).

Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now reaches 60,000 downloads

Mur Lafferty interview on everything I’m up to

Here's a transcript of an interview I did with Mur Lafferty at WorldCon on my WITH A LITTLE HELP project/stunt and various other writing things I'm up to:

CD: For the Win’s almost done. It’ll be, I think they’re saying May 2010? Or March, one or the other. A month that starts with an “m” and is in the spring of 2010, provided I can turn it in on time, which is like the end of this month, I’m a little late with it. They’ve given me a little extension. It’s coming along pretty well and it’s nearly done, I’m just writing the climax now. And I’m pretty excited with how it’s turned out.

ML: And that’s YA like Little Brother?

CD: Young adult novel, like Little Brother. It’s a book, as you know, about union organizers who use video games to evade the restrictions on labor organizing in the developing world and special economic zones, and who organize gamers, gold-farmers, who then go on to unionize factory girls and so on. And it uses this conceit to explain some macroeconomic, cognitive economic, and behavioral economic ideas, in the same way that Little Brother used its conceit to explain cryptography, security, statistics, and risk.

Interview on librarianship and media

Here's an interview I conducted with the At Your Library folks on the role of libraries in activism, media literacy, and Creative Commons.

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