Here’s the full audio from the Cover to Cover, Open Book interview I did with Berkeley’s KPFA. The edited, 29-minute version that aired doesn’t stay online thanks to “bullying” with the SoundExchange rights-society, but Eric Klein, who conducted the interview, was kind enough to upload the whole thing.
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Podcast
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.
Here’s part 2 of the interview I conducted in Second Life with the Copper Robot show. In this part, I talk about the research that went into For the Win.
“For anyone who’s my age and uses computers, you would have to undertake an extraordinary effort not to be a gamer,” he said. He started computer games at age 8, when a neighbor got Pong, and they became obsessed with the game.
“We think you’ve got to be somebody who spends 70 hours a week playing World of Warcraft in order to call yourself a gamer,” Cory said. However, that’s not true, he said. Likewise, most people think of gamers as either being children or overgrown children, but 50% of FarmVille players are 50-year-old women with high school diplomas, Doctorow said.
Part one of “The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening“, originally published on Shareable.net.
(Image: Tilt and shift – Leicester Square at night, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from rthakrar’s photostream)
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Here’s my interview with Books on the Radio, part of my For the Win tour:
Here’s Part One of the in-game interview I conducted on For the Win with Second Life’s Copper Robot:
Here’s the interview I conducted with NPR’s Rick Kleffel during the For the Win tour — he’s a great and smart science fiction interviewer and critic.
During the For the Win tour, I recorded this interview with the excellent Small World podcast. Bazooka Joe asked some really interesting questions, and we had a great talk.
Al Billings recorded last night’s EFF benefit in San Francisco.
I recorded an interview with the excellent Command Line podcast about the new book, games, privacy, and civil liberties. Check it out!
I’m headed to Book Expo America soon as part of the FOR THE WIN tour. Yesterday, i recorded this quick phoner for a BEA podcast on the subject:
