Here’s the actual reading from last night’s MAKERS launch:
Here’s me chatting with the MakerCulture Project, a student group who came out to my launch last night. Smart folks! They also got pix.
Here’s the actual reading from last night’s MAKERS launch:
Andrew Schwab recorded last night’s MAKERS launch in Toronto, a stellar event that was standing-room only, featuring free Ubuntu disks (thanks, John!), presentation of the Sunburst Award, a reading, and Q&A.
Here’s last night’s TVO Agenda interview on Makers — Steve Paikin and I had a fantastic talk.
A couple weeks back I travelled to Waterloo, ON, to appear at the Perimeter Institute’s Quantum 2 Cosmos science and technology festival. I gave a talk on copyright and did a panel on robotics and AI, both of which were lots of fun. The TVOntario people just sent me the video links for both, with a bonus: the live text-chat from my appearance last night on The Agenda:
Tonight, I’m launching my latest novel Makers in Canada, at the excellent Toronto sf reference library, the Merril Collection, at 239 College St. (3rd floor), east of Spadina. The event starts at 7PM, and I’ll be doing a reading, taking questions, and signing books.
Books are being sold by Bakka Phoenix, and if you can’t make it tonight, they’re happy to take your pre-orders for signed, personalized copies — I’ll sign them tonight and they’ll ship them out right away. They’re at +1 416 963 9993 or inquiries@bakkaphoenixbooks.com.
Hope to see you there!
Tonight, I’m launching my latest novel Makers in Canada, at the excellent Toronto sf reference library, the Merril Collection, at 239 College St. (3rd floor), east of Spadina. The event starts at 7PM, and I’ll be doing a reading, taking questions, and signing books.
Books are being sold by Bakka Phoenix, and if you can’t make it tonight, they’re happy to take your pre-orders for signed, personalized copies — I’ll sign them tonight and they’ll ship them out right away. They’re at +1 416 963 9993 or inquiries@bakkaphoenixbooks.com.
Hope to see you there!
I turned my Boing Boing post about Murdoch’s mad pronouncements on the Internet into a column for the Guardian, called “For whom the net tolls.”
What, exactly, is Rupert Murdoch thinking? First, he announces that all of Newscorp’s websites will erect paywalls like the one employed by the Wall Street Journal (however, Rupert managed to get the details of the WSJ’s wall wrong – no matter, he’s a “big picture” guy). Then, he announced that Google and other search engines were “plagiarists” who “rip off” Newscorp’s content, and that once the paywalls are up (a date that keeps slipping farther into the future, almost as though the best IT people work for someone who’s not Rupert “I Hate the Net” Murdoch!) he’ll be blocking Google and the other “parasites” from his sites, making all of Newscorp’s properties invisible to search engines. Then, as a kind of loonie cherry atop a banana split with extra crazy sauce, Rupert announces that “fair use is illegal” and he’ll be abolishing it shortly.
What is he thinking? We’ll never know, of course, but I have a theory.
