Cory Doctorow
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Articles, speeches, stories and novels by an award-winning science fiction writer, read aloud in small regular chunks
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 08 20.05.2013
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning’I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/05/20/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-...
Sense About Science lecture 20.05.2013
I gave the annual Sense About Science lecture last week in London, and The Guardian recorded and podcasted it (MP3). It’s based on the Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine talk I gave at Re:publica in Berlin the week before.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 07 13.05.2013
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning’I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/05/13/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 06 06.05.2013
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning’I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/05/06/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-...
Tim Wu and I talk networks, policy and the future 06.05.2013
Slate’s “Stranger Than Fiction” podcast has just aired its second episode: a discussion between Tim Wu (a cyberlawyer, Internet scholar and good egg) and me (MP3)! Future installments will include talks with Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood (as well as others) — the inaugural episode featured Tim in discussion with Neal Stephenson.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 05 29.04.2013
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/04/29/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 03 27.04.2013
[NB: Some indeterminate screwup, which was nevertheless definitely caused by me being a stoop, caused this episode not to make it into my feed. I are a dum.] As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/04/26/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kin...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 04 22.04.2013
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/04/22/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-...
Interview on NPR’s Off-Topic 30.03.2013
The NPR show OffTopic aired an episode called Give and Take: Pirates, Profiteers, and Art in the Age of Appropriation, and spoke to me for it. It’s a really interesting listen! MP3 link
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02 25.03.2013
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/03/25/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01 18.03.2013
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into my podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/03/18/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-r...
Audio from my Homeland tour presentation 18.03.2013
Thomas “Command Line” Gideon came out for the DC stop on my Homeland tour, at Busboys and Poets, and mic’ed me up for the event. He’s mastered the audio and posted it. It’s a 40 minute talk about the promise of technology to improve our lives, the risks from allowing technology to be used to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/03/17/audio-from-my-homel...
Ten Years On 11.03.2013
Here’s a reading of my recent Locus column, Ten Years On, in which I reflect on my first decade as a novelist and discuss a possible further volume related to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, my first-ever novel: I never thought I’d write a sequel. The allure of writing books has always been... <a href="https://craphound.com/down/2013/03/11/ten-years-on/" class="more-link...
Podcast with Beyond the Book 04.03.2013
The folks at Beyond the Book interviewed me for a recent podcast (MP3). We talked about computer control, DRM, publishing, and my latest book, Homeland.
Interview with Rick Kleffel about <em>Homeland</em> 11.02.2013
Last week I sat down for an interview with Rick Kleffel at KQED in San Francisco. He’s put the whole interview — a long one! — up in his Trashotron podcast feed. We talked about Homeland and other things. Rick, as always, was a very astute interviewer. MP3 link
Reading from Homeland 28.01.2013
Here’s a reading from my upcoming novel, Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother. It’s a rehearsal for the readings I’ll be giving at schools and libraries when I leave for my 22-city US tour next week. He fitted me with a blood pressure cuff — yeah, it was a tactical cuff, which clearly made this... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/01/28/reading-from-homelan...
RIP, Aaron Swartz 21.01.2013
On today’s podcast, I read read my obituary for Aaron Swartz, and the afterword he wrote for my upcoming novel, Homeland. I met Aaron when he was 14 or 15. He was working on XML stuff (he co-wrote the RSS specification when he was 14) and came to San Francisco often, and would stay with... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/01/21/rip-aaron-swartz/" class="more-link&qu...
What’s entropy? 31.12.2012
I sat down with the fascinating crew at the Titanium Physicists podcast to serve as their special physics-ignoramus guest in an episode about entropy (MP3)
Happy hols! 21.12.2012
Today, on a very special Cory Doctorow podcast, the podcasting debut of Ms Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow! MP3 Link
The Internet of the Dead 10.12.2012
Here’s a podcast of my recent Locus column, The Internet of the Dead: I had begun my trip with a few days in Toronto, attending to a strange and new kind of memorial ritual for a close friend who had died unexpectedly in June. My friend’s name was Erik ‘‘Possum Man’’ Stewart, and I’d known... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/12/10/the-internet-of-the-dead/" class="m...
Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access 26.11.2012
Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access: One of the strongest arguments for public access in scholarly and scientific publication is the “public debt” argument: if the public pays you to do research, the research should belong to the public. That’s a good argument, but... <a href="https://craphound.co...
Secure the Internet podcast 19.11.2012
Here’s a podcast of my recent Nature comment, co-written with Ben Laurie, Secure the Internet: In 2011, a fake Adobe Flash updater was discovered on the Internet. To any user it looked authentic. The software’s cryptographic certificates, which securely verify the authenticity and integrity of Internet connections, bore an authorized signature. Internet users who thought... <a href="...
Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy 14.11.2012
I did an interview with The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, which they’ve published in both text and MP3 form. We talked about Pirate Cinema, Rapture of the Nerds, the Humble Ebook Bundle, the future of publishing, the Disney/Star Wars merger, and lots more: Wired: Do you ever get letters from kids who have been... <a href="https://craphound.com/articles/2012/11/14/interview-with-g...
Digital Human podcast on death 14.11.2012
I recently recorded an interview with the BBC’s Digital Human programme, which was recording an episode on death. It’s came out very well. MP3 Link
Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell 05.11.2012
Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell: The banks are now outsourcing their fraud prevention to computers that can make dozens of calls all at once, around the clock, fishing (or phishing) for someone who just happened to have made an unusual purchase... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/11/05/automated-call...
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