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I recently sat down with Thomas Gideon of the wonderful Command Line podcast, and talked about Rapture of the Nerds, Pirate Cinema, and the future of the Internet. It’s always a pleasure to be on Thomas’s show. MP3 Link

This weekend I appeared on the This Week in Tech Podcast, to talk about the tech news of the week, as well as Rapture of the Nerds, Pirate Cinema and Humble Ebook Bundle. The other guests on the show were Jason Hiner and Larry Magid, and Leo Laporte, as always, played host. It was a... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/10/15/this-week-in-tech-3/" class="more-link" tit...

Here’s a podcast of my recent Publishers Weekly column, Doubling Down on DRM: I’ve just seen a letter sent to an author who has published books under Hachette’s imprints in some territories and with Tor Books and its sister companies in other territories (Tor is part of Macmillan). The letter, signed by Little, Brown’s U.K.... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/08/14/doubling-d...

Here’s the audio from the chat Charlie Stross and I did with Mitch Wagner from Internet Evolution about our forthcoming book, Rapture of the Nerds.

I’ve been trying out a sequel to my 2011 28C3 talk, The Coming War on General Purpose Computation. I’ve given the talk twice now, once at DEFCON 20 in Las Vegas and once at the Long Now SALT talk in San Francisco. The Long Now folks have put up the audio already, with video to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/08/05/audio-from-the-coming-civil-war-over-general-purpose...

Music: The Internet’s Original Sin Here’s a podcast of my recent Locus column, Music: The Internet’s Original Sin: Let’s start with music’s age. Movies are still in their infancy. Books are in their middle age. Stories themselves are ancient. But music is primal. Books may predate commerce, but music predates language. Our relationship with music,... <a href="https://craphound.com/ne...

The very last episode of TVOntario’s Search Engine’s just went out (MP3), and I’m honored to say that it’s an interview with me. I started out with Search Engine when it was a broadcast on CBC radio, and I’ve been pleased to appear on the show several times since it moved to TVO. Host Jesse... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/06/26/final-episode-of-sea...

Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist: Google’s official communiques tell the world that SEO isn’t necessary – so long as you “make great content”, you’ll get higher rankings. The implication is that Google has discovered a mathematical model of relevance, a way of measuring some objective... &lt...

Here’s a podcast of my recent Tech Review feature, The Curious Case of Internet Privacy: Why do we seem to value privacy so little? In part, it’s because we are told to. Facebook has more than once overridden its users’ privacy preferences, replacing them with new default settings. Facebook then responds to the inevitable public... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012...

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, The problem with nerd politics: Since the earliest days of the information wars, people who care about freedom and technology have struggled with two ideological traps: nerd determinism and nerd fatalism. Both are dangerously attractive to people who love technology. In “nerd determinism,” technologists dismiss dangerous and... <a h...

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers: At the end of April, Tor Books, the world’s largest science fiction publisher, and its UK sister company, Tor UK, announced that they would be eliminating digital rights management (DRM) from all of... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/05/14/why-the-d...

Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, A Prose By Any Other Name: Back in 2005, I did something weird. I decided that I would embark on a project to write short stories with the same (or similar) titles to famous science fiction books and stories. My initial motivation for this was Ray Bradbury... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/05/07/a-prose-by-any-other-name/" clas...

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?: Late in March, I started to get a steady stream of emails from concerned readers: did you see that the Internet Society has appointed the former chief technology officer of the MPAA to be their North American regional... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/04/30/why-did-an-mpaa-exe...

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords: Facebook has threatened to sue companies that force their employees to reveal their Facebook login details. As laudable as this is, I worry that it will fail to accomplish its primary objective – protecting Facebook users from... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/...

Here’s a podcast of my last Publishers Weekly column, A Whip to Beat Us With: Jim C. Hines’s e-books are marketed both through a big publisher and solo. The books that were re-priced by Amazon were his solo titles—unagented, and unrepresented by a major publisher. As an individual, Jim has no leverage over Amazon. Not... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/04/02/a-whip-to-beat-u...

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us: The first time I ever heard someone declare the death of copyright, it wasn’t a dreadlocked GNU/Linux hacker or a cyberpunk in mirror shades: it was a music executive, circa 1999, responding to the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/03/26/...

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Censorship is inseparable from surveillance: There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the 1920s and 1930s, the ban took the form on a prohibition on the sale of copies of the books. Theoretically, this... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/03/12/censo...

Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, What’s Inside the Box?: The answer to this that most of the experts I speak to come up with is this: The owner (or user) of a device should be able to know (or control) which software is running on her devices. This is really four answers,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/03/05/whats-inside-the-box-2/" class="more-l...

Here’s a short interview I did last week in Chicago with WNIJ, an NPR affiliate. MP3 link

Here’s a podcast of my last Publishers Weekly column, Digital Lysenkoism : Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics. Soviet-era scientists were required, on pain of imprisonment, to endorse Lysenkoism, a discredited... <a href="https://...

I did an interview last week with the CBC Radio show The Spark (I podcasted the complete interview when they posted it); now they’ve put up the edited episode. MP3 link

I did a quick interview with the CBC Radio programme “The Spark” last week from my office in London, talking about my idea of “the upcoming war on general purpose computing.” They’ve just posted the unedited audio in advance of airing a shorter excerpt. MP3 link

The StarShipSofa podcast has the second installment of Jeff Lane’s reading of my YA novella The Martian Chronicles (here’s part one). Lane does a great job with the reading. MP3 link.

Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future: Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Aren’t you worried that real science will overtake your novel before it’s published?’’ This... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/0...

The Starship Sofa podcast has produced an excellent reading of my novella “The Martian Chronicles,” which was originally published in Jonathan Strahan’s YA anthology Life on Mars. The reading is by jeff Lane, who’s really talented. Here’s the MP3 (the reading starts around 1:50).