I recorded a podcast this morning for the Thunderbird Six show, a science-related podcast from Thunder Bay, Ontario. We covered the usual stuff — copyright, DRM, science fiction, EFF — they’re funny guys, too.
Here’s part 7 — chapters 17-18 — of the reading of my novel Eastern Standard Tribe.
Just a reminder: I’m coming to North Carolina this Thursday, 22 Feb 07. I’ll be giving a talk on privacy at Duke University at 5PM and a talk on copyright at the University of North Carolina at 2PM. Hope to see you there!
Other upcoming events: Ad Astra Toronto Mar 2-4; Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Mar 8/9.
Irene Delse has produced a French fan-translation of my Forbes article, Giving it Away.
Reminder for Angelenos: Tonight is my Los Angeles book-launch for Overclocked, my new short story collection. It’s at 7PM at Secret Headquarters, the best comic-store in town. Hope to see you there!
Other upcoming events: Duke University, Feb 22; University of North Carolina, Feb 22; Ad Astra Toronto, Mar 2-4; Simon Fraser U, Vancouver, Mar 8/9
Reminder for Angelenos: Tonight is my Los Angeles book-launch for Overclocked, my new short story collection. It’s at 7PM at Secret Headquarters, the best comic-store in town. Hope to see you there!
Other upcoming events: Duke University, Feb 22; University of North Carolina, Feb 22; Ad Astra Toronto, Mar 2-4; Simon Fraser U, Vancouver, Mar 8/9
What the Internet is showing us is that there is a great deal of things that we previously believed to be non-substitutable that are in fact quite substitutable. News, right. Straight up news reportage. If the New York Times puts up a pay wall, you simply go to Google News and you can find another news site that carries essentially the same story that doesn’t have a pay wall or where you don’t have to register and still can get the same information. So to the extent that the New York Times long-term business fortunes rely on this strategy that even though people come to them, even though they are harder to get to than anyone else, because the brand New York Times is more valuable, I think is a doomed strategy. And for artists this is really becoming the case. Where I sit down to do something in front of my computer to kill an hour I can look at pornography, I can read a novel, I can get into instant messaging, I can play a massively multiplayer on my role-playing game and they are all one click away to finding the thing that’s just as fun as the thing that I was planning on doing. If the thing that I was planning on doing costs too much, or is to hard to get to, is a pain in the ass, or is down, it is actually getting easier every day to find something else to divert yourself with for an hour or two, or day, or whatever, and something that’s just as good, something that’s just as educational, uplifting, interesting.
Review:
Rick Kleffel
‘Overclocked’ is a reminder that we can’t hope to keep up and shouldn’t bother. But we do need to keep alert, to keep ourselves caffeinated, to run as fast as we can – if we hope to stay in the same place. Getting ahead? That’s, alas, a thing of the past.
Rick Kleffel, NPR
I’m coming to North Carolina on Feb 22 to give a talk on privacy at Duke University at 5PM and a talk on copyright at the University of North Carolina at 2PM. There’ll be books for sale at both — hope to see you there!
Other upcoming events: my Los Angeles book-launch this Thursday at 7PM at Secret Headquarters, and I’m going to be a Guest of Honor at Ad Astra, Toronto’s regional sf convention, from Mar 2-4.
I’m coming to North Carolina on Feb 22 to give a talk on privacy at Duke University at 5PM and a talk on copyright at the University of North Carolina at 2PM. There’ll be books for sale at both — hope to see you there!
Other upcoming events: my Los Angeles book-launch this Thursday at 7PM at Secret Headquarters, and I’m going to be a Guest of Honor at Ad Astra, Toronto’s regional sf convention, from Mar 2-4.
