Tor.com’s just posted the final iteration of the little rotating tile-game based on the Creative Commons-licensed illustrations that accompanied the serialization of my novel Makers. The 9×9 grid is truly a thing of awesome beauty.
Here’s part eight of the podcast of my story in progress, MARTIAN CHRONICLES, being written for Jonathan Strahan’s YA Mars book, LIFE ON MARS.
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.
I’m to be the guest of honor at ICON 35: A Steam Powered Convention of the Future, to be held November 5-7, 2010 at the Cedar Rapids Marriott. This is a great, venerable regional con and I’m really looking forward to seeing some of Iowa! Hope to run into you there. And for those of you on the west coast, a reminder that I’ll be a special guest at Norwescon in Seattle, April 1-4, along with Vernor Vinge and many fine other writers, artists, and fans.
The Italian publisher Apogeo commissioned a professional Italian translation of my Creative Commons-licensed essay collection Content and released their edition as a free, noncommercial download!
Content:
Selezione di saggi sulla tecnologia, la creatività , il copyright
(Grazie, Fabio!)
Previously:
The Italian publisher Apogeo commissioned a professional Italian translation of my Creative Commons-licensed essay collection Content and released their edition as a free, noncommercial download!
Content:
Selezione di saggi sulla tecnologia, la creatività , il copyright
(Grazie, Fabio!)
Previously:
My latest Locus column, “Close Enough for Rock ‘n’ Roll,” discusses the way that the net makes it possible to do something almost as good as its offline equivalent for a fraction of the cost, and how that changes everything:
In other words, rock ‘n’ roll is cheap, experimental and fluid, and devotes most of its energy into the production of music. Orchestral music is expensive, formal and majestic, but tithes a large portion of its effort to coordination and overheads and maintenance.If the Internet has a motif, it is rock ‘n’ roll’s Protestant Reformation thrashing against the orchestral One Church. Rock ‘n’ roll gets lots of wee kirks built in every hill and dale in which parishioners can find religion in their own ways; choral music erects majestic cathedrals that humble and amaze, but take three generations of laborers to build.
The interesting bit isn’t what it costs to replicate some big, pre-Internet business or project.
The interesting bit is what it costs to do something half as well as some big, pre-Internet business or project.
Cory Doctorow: Close Enough for Rock ‘n’ Roll
(Image: Rock-n-Roll Adventure Kids, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from Invisible Hour’s photostream)
Here’s part seven of the podcast of my story in progress, MARTIAN CHRONICLES, being written for Jonathan Strahan’s YA Mars book, LIFE ON MARS.
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.
The debut issue of Digital Content Quarterly has a sweet one-page interview with me, conducted by Michelle Pauli, who also wrote about Makers for the Guardian. Here, Michelle asks me what excites me about the future.
Each installment in Tor.com’s serialization of my latest novel Makers was accompanied by a Creative Commons licensed illustration from Idiots’ Books, in the form of a tile that can be interlocked with previous tiles on all four sides. We’re planning to release these as a limited-edition deck of cards in the future, and we’ve also been releasing little flashtoys that let you play with the tiles onscreen as they were released.
Now Tor has an embeddable version, courtesy of Malloc, which you can stick in your blog or wherever you choose! Here’s the code:
