My Podcast is a regular feed in which I read from one of my stories for a few minutes at least once a week, from whatever friend’s house, airport, hotel, conference, treaty negotiation or what-have-you that I’m currently at. Here’s the podcast feed.
David Weinberger, author of the brand new Everything is Miscellaneous, a book about how the Internet is destroying traditional notions of organization, subject and heirarchy, did a recent interview with me about metadata and civil liberties. He’s posted it as the first part of a podcast series of interviews with interested parties.
I’m almost finished Everything is Miscellaneous, and it’s fantastic — I’ll post a review very soon!
Here’s a reading from my forthcoming young adult novel, “Little Brother,” about San Francisco hacker kids who fight back against the Department of Homeland Security. Tor will publish it in May, 2008.
I really went to town on the samples and mixing in this one, hauling out Audacity, the free/open sound-editing program, and grabbing a boatload of samples from the Freesound project, and a little punk guitar from the Anchormen, a great Boston act.
This reading is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0.
Here are the credits for the samples:
Guitar samples:Moonface and Mass Ave Attack by the Anchormen(Used by permission)
Burrito joint:Loud Family Restaurant by cognito perceptu
Crowd sounds:20070402.crowd.flac by dobroide
Laughter:laughter.wav by sagetyrtle
Laughter:laugh loud.wav by ERH
Siren:sirenaMP3.mp3 by zippi1
Helicopter:20070210.helicopter.01.wav by dobroide
Screaming:M207b12_More_screaming.wav by Experimental Illness
Traffic:traffic stereo.wav by cognito perceptu
Bassline:BL_SL004_100.mp3 by bassmatiker
Here’s part four — the conclusion — of my reading of Peter Gutmann’s “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection,” an amazing paper on DRM that was first published in late 2006.
I did a recent interview with Australia’s Sci Phi show. It was a short but wide-ranging interview about writing.
Here’s part three of my reading of Peter Gutmann’s “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection,” an amazing paper on DRM that was first published in late 2006.
MP3 Link
Here’s part two of my reading of Peter Gutmann’s “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection,” an amazing paper on DRM that was first published in late 2006.
MP3 Link
Here’s my reading of Peter Gutmann’s “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection,” an amazing paper on DRM that was first published in late 2006.
Executive Summary
Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it’s not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.
The USC Center for Public Diplomacy blog has a post on the EFF Pioneer Awards last night, including the audio from the talk.
Here’s part 11 — chapters 27-31 — of the reading of my novel Eastern Standard Tribe. This concludes the reading
I recorded an interview with Lance Weiler on the This Conference is Being Recorded podcast — we talk about creativity, authorship and Creative Commons.
