Jeff Clark sez, “I’ve created a graphic from the text of ‘Makers’ that shows the distribution of the various proper nouns in your work. It seems to do a pretty good job of communicating the ebb and flow of the various characters throughout the book.”
This works amazingly well — I’ve never seen an automated text analysis that was so revealing of the emotional and plot elements of a book!
Hey, Portlanders! I’m on my way today to the Powell’s location in Beaverton at 2PM for the latest stop in my For the Win tour.
After that, I’m off to the Bay Area, where I’ll kick off with a signing at Borderlands Books in the Mission on Monday at 7PM. Then it’s a stop in Palo Alto at Books Inc for the Not Your Mother’s Book Club event on Tuesday at 7PM.
It culminates with a kick-ass EFF fundraiser at the 111 Minna Gallery on Wednesday at 7:30PM.
After that, the tour goes on, with stops in Austin on May 20, Raleigh on the 22nd, Chapel Hill on the 23d, New York on the 26th, Brooklyn on the 27th, New York again on the 28th, and Toronto on June 4. Hope to see you!
Hey, Seattle! Reminder: I’ll be at the Sunset Tavern tonight at 7PM as part of my For the Win tour. Tomorrow (Saturday), it’s Portland, at the Powell’s in Beaverton at 2PM. Then it’s off to SFO, AUS, RDU, NYC and YYZ! (Full tour schedule) Hope to see you!
“For the Win” is not a perfect book — merely a glorious one. Its end is open, almost ambiguous. It asks more questions than it answers. It stirs up trouble in its readers’ hearts and worries in our minds, presenting problems without providing forever-and-all-time solutions. But it dares much, and daring is the best way humans have of making progress.
Hey, Seattle! Reminder: I’ll be at the Sunset Tavern tonight at 7PM as part of my For the Win tour. Tomorrow (Saturday), it’s Portland, at the Powell’s in Beaverton at 2PM. Then it’s off to SFO, AUS, RDU, NYC and YYZ! (Full tour schedule) Hope to see you!
Athabasca U’s Mark A. McCutcheon has written a smashing essay called “The copyfight, science fiction, and social media,” presented at a Session on Capacity Building and Virtual (Online) Community at the Society for Socialist Studies conference. As the title suggests, the subject matter is the relationship between science fiction, social media, and social change. Mark was good enough to cite several of my works in it, as well as material from William Gibson and Peter Watts.
The “copyfight” over regulating intellectual property (IP) and digital culture pits corporations and states against citizens, who are criminalized en masse as ever-stricter IP laws exert increasing control over cultural production, distribution, and consumption. At the same time, these new laws and regulations increasingly infringe on citizens’ rights to freedom and privacy. As of this writing, the Harper regime is poised to introduce harsh and excessive IP legislation in the guise of “copyright modernization”: legislation based on the punitive, police-state models of the USA’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the UK’s Digital Economy bill, which weaken and restrict provisions for public fair use, while extending protection not only to IP but also to the technological protection measures or “digital locks” that some companies put on devices and content. Looming over these already extreme regulatory changes is the ongoing and secretive negotiation of a global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (as discussed by Jay Smith in this session).
Hey, Seattlites! I’m doing a talk at the Sunset Tavern tomorrow (Friday) night at 7PM. I’ll do a reading from For the Win and be interviewed by Stranger editor Paul Constant. Live music by Pillow Army.
And for those of you in Chicago, a reminder that I’ll be at the Chicago Public Library Harold Washington Library Center tonight (Thurs) at 5PM.
Coming up: Portland, at the Powell’s Location in Beaverton on May 15, then San Francisco, Austin, Raleigh, NYC and Toronto. Hope to see you!
Hey, Seattlites! I’m doing a talk at the Sunset Tavern tomorrow (Friday) night at 7PM. I’ll do a reading from For the Win and be interviewed by Stranger editor Paul Constant. Live music by Pillow Army.
And for those of you in Chicago, a reminder that I’ll be at the Chicago Public Library Harold Washington Library Center tonight (Thurs) at 5PM.
Coming up: Portland, at the Powell’s Location in Beaverton on May 15, then San Francisco, Austin, Raleigh, NYC and Toronto. Hope to see you!
Wesley Stroupe made this neat visualization of the tag cloud from Little Brother.
Wesley Stroupe made this neat visualization of the tag cloud from Little Brother.
