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The Internet of the Dead

10 december 2012

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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="more-link" title="Read The Internet of the Dead">more </a> Lees meer

Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access

26 november 2012

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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.com/news/2012/11/26/why-all-pharmaceutical-research-should-be-made-open-access-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access">more </a> Lees meer

Secure the Internet podcast

19 november 2012

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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="https://craphound.com/news/2012/11/19/secure-the-internet-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Secure the Internet podcast">more </a> Lees meer

Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

14 november 2012

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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-geeks-guide-to-the-galaxy/" class="more-link" title="Read Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy">more </a> Lees meer

Digital Human podcast on death

14 november 2012

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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

5 november 2012

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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-calls-fraud-and-the-banks-a-mismatch-made-in-hell-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell">more </a> Lees meer

Interview on the Command Line podcast

17 oktober 2012

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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 Week in Tech

16 oktober 2012

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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" title="Read This Week in Tech">more </a> Lees meer

Doubling Down on DRM

14 augustus 2012

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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-down-on-drm-3/" class="more-link" title="Read Doubling Down on DRM">more </a> Lees meer

Audio from chat with Charlie Stross on Internet Evolution

10 augustus 2012

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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.

Audio from “The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computation” at Long Now

5 augustus 2012

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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-computation-at-long-now/" class="more-link" title="Read Audio from “The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computation” at Long Now">more </a> Lees meer

Music: The Internet’s Original Sin

10 juli 2012

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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/news/2012/07/10/music-the-internets-original-sin-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Music: The Internet’s Original Sin">more </a> Lees meer

Final episode of Search Engine podcast

26 juni 2012

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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-search-engine-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Final episode of Search Engine podcast">more </a> Lees meer

Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist

26 juni 2012

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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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/06/25/google-admits-that-platos-cave-doesnt-exist-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist">more </a> Lees meer

The Curious Case of Internet Privacy

11 juni 2012

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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/2012/06/11/the-curious-case-of-internet-privacy-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The Curious Case of Internet Privacy">more </a> Lees meer

The problem with nerd politics

21 mei 2012

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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 href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/05/21/the-problem-with-nerd-politics-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The problem with nerd politics">more </a> Lees meer

Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers

14 mei 2012

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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-death-of-drm-would-be-good-news-for-readers-writers-and-publishers-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers">more </a> Lees meer

A Prose By Any Other Name

7 mei 2012

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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/" class="more-link" title="Read A Prose By Any Other Name">more </a> Lees meer

Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?

30 april 2012

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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-executive-join-the-internet-society-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?">more </a> Lees meer

Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords

16 april 2012

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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/2012/04/16/protecting-your-facebook-privacy-at-work-isnt-just-about-passwords-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords">more </a> Lees meer

A Whip to Beat Us With

2 april 2012

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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-us-with-2/" class="more-link" title="Read A Whip to Beat Us With">more </a> Lees meer

Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us

26 maart 2012

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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/copyright-isnt-dead-just-because-were-not-willing-to-let-it-regulate-us-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us">more </a> Lees meer

Censorship is inseparable from surveillance

12 maart 2012

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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/censorship-is-inseparable-from-surveillance-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Censorship is inseparable from surveillance">more </a> Lees meer

What’s Inside the Box?

6 maart 2012

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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-link" title="Read What’s Inside the Box?">more </a> Lees meer

Interview with WNIJ Chicago

13 februari 2012

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

Digital Lysenkoism

6 februari 2012

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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://craphound.com/news/2012/02/06/digital-lysenkoism-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Digital Lysenkoism">more </a> Lees meer

Edited Spark interview about the “coming war on general purpose computation”

28 januari 2012

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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

Interview with CBC’s Spark on the coming war on general-purpose computation

23 januari 2012

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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 Lees meer

Martian Chronicles, part two

17 januari 2012

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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.

Podcast: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future

16 januari 2012

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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/2012/01/16/podcast-a-vocabulary-for-speaking-about-the-future/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future">more </a> Lees meer

“Martian Chronicles” reading

11 januari 2012

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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). Lees meer

The Coming War on General Purpose Computation

9 januari 2012

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Here’s a transcript of my keynote at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin over Christmas week, “The Coming War on General Purpose Computation.” Here’re the relevant links: * Video * Transcript (Joshua Wise) * German translation (Christian Wöhrl) * Subtitles in German, French, Spanish and Italian (you can add more!) Mastering by John Taylor... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/01/09/the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computation-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The Coming War on General Purpose Computation">more </a> Lees meer

An Urgent Christmas Message

19 december 2011

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No reading this time — I’m too hard at work on finishing the sequel to Little Brother — but a Christmas wish from me to you: fight SOPA and save the Internet before the year is out! Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/12/19/an-urgent-christmas-message/" class="more-link" title="Read An Urgent Christmas Message">more </a> Lees meer

Interview on Command Line about Context

12 december 2011

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This week on The Command Line podcast, a recording of a live chat between host Thomas Gideon and myself at the New America Foundation, discussing (among other things), my new essay collection Context. (MP3)

Another Place, Another Time

29 november 2011

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Here’s a reading of my story “Another Place, Another Time,” which was my contribution to The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, a companion volume to Chris Van Allsburg’s classic Mysteries of Harris Burdick, a collection of illustrations and titles from a lost (imaginary) short story collection. I was commissioned to produce a story for the collection... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/11/28/another-place-another-time/" class="more-link" title="Read Another Place, Another Time">more </a> Lees meer

Audio version of my essay collection Context

22 november 2011

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Jan Rubak has once again set out to create a fan-audiobook of my essays, reading aloud from my book Context as he did with my earlier collection, Content. He’s a great reader, and he’s uploaded half the book so far, with the rest promised soon. Here’s an MP3 of his reading of “Think Like a... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/11/22/audio-version-of-my-essay-collection-context/" class="more-link" title="Read Audio version of my essay collection Context">more </a> Lees meer

For the Win interview from Berlin

21 november 2011

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Here’s an interview I did last week with the SF-Fantasy.de podcast in Berlin MP3 Link

Authorised Domain

31 oktober 2011

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Here’s a reading of my short-short story “Authorised Domain,” commissioned as part of a package on “the future of the living room.” The judge said I have to write this note and so I am, but I want to put it right at the top that I don’t think it’s fair. It begins with Mum... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/31/authorised-domain/" class="more-link" title="Read Authorised Domain">more </a> Lees meer

Clockwork Fagin on Escape Pod

21 oktober 2011

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My steampunk YA short story, “Clockwork Fagin” (about the children who are mangled by the machinery of the industrial-information revolution, who murder the orphanage’s cruel master and replace him with a taxidermied automaton that they use to fool the nuns who oversee the place), has been turned into a podcast by the good folks at... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/21/clockwork-fagin-on-escape-pod/" class="more-link" title="Read Clockwork Fagin on Escape Pod">more </a> Lees meer

Saying Information Wants to Be Free Does More Harm Than Good

10 oktober 2011

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Here’s a reading of my essay Saying Information Wants to Be Free Does More Harm Than Good, just reprinted in my second essay collection Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/10/saying-information-wants-to-be-free-does-more-harm-than-good-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Saying Information Wants to Be Free Does More Harm Than Good">more </a> Lees meer

Jack and the Internetstalk, from Context

3 oktober 2011

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Here’s a reading of my essay Jack and the Internetstalk, just reprinted in my second essay collection Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/03/jack-and-the-internetstalk-from-context/" class="more-link" title="Read Jack and the Internetstalk, from Context">more </a> Lees meer

The Brave Little Toaster, from TRSF

28 september 2011

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Here’s a reading of my short story Brave Little Toaster, which was just published in TRSF, the inaugural science fiction anthology from MIT’s Tech Review. It’s a short-short story on the “Internet of Things” and what happens when it all goes wrong. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/09/28/the-brave-little-toaster-from-trsf/" class="more-link" title="Read The Brave Little Toaster, from TRSF">more </a> Lees meer

Interview with Renovation Podcast

5 september 2011

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Here’s an interview I recorded with the Renovation Podcast, the official podcast of the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, NV. MP3 Link

Interview with Short Story Geeks podcast

24 augustus 2011

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I’ve just gotten back from Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, Nevada, where I sat down for an interview with Graveyard Greg from the Short Story Geeks podcast. My bit starts around 26:40. MP3 Link

Introduction to 20th anniverary edition of The Difference Engine

1 augustus 2011

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Here’s a reading of my introduction for the 20th anniversary edition of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s Difference Engine, which is just out from Random House, with new material from Bill and Bruce. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/08/01/introduction-to-20th-anniverary-edition-of-the-difference-engine/" class="more-link" title="Read Introduction to 20th anniverary edition of The Difference Engine">more </a> Lees meer

Podcast: Shirky’s Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic

25 juli 2011

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Here’s my reading of Clay Shirky’s brilliant essay Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic: Outside a relative handful of financial publications, there is no such thing as the news business. There is only the advertising business. The remarkable thing about the newspapers’ piece of that business isn’t that they could reliably... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/07/25/podcast-shirkys-why-we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Shirky’s Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic">more </a> Lees meer

Podcast: I interview Thomas Gideon from the Command Line

7 juli 2011

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To commemorate the sixth anniversary of the excellent Command Line podcast, I interviewed the show’s host, Thomas Gideon, now a staff technologist at New America Foundation. Command Line covers technology, games, civil liberties and related issues, and it’s one of my favorite podcasts — it was great fun to chat with Thomas on his podaversary.... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/07/06/podcast-i-interview-thomas-gideon-from-the-command-line/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: I interview Thomas Gideon from the Command Line">more </a> Lees meer

Alice and me on Rum Doings podcast

1 juli 2011

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My wife Alice and I did a two-for-one interview with the Rum Doings podcast, a gamey, geeky good time: “Amazingly we get onto the economy of Star Trek, via the consequences of teleporters. There is much discussion of the consequences of new technology on, well, everything. And then comes piracy, geocoding, and the surprise appearance... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/07/01/alice-and-me-on-rum-doings-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Alice and me on Rum Doings podcast">more </a> Lees meer

Mark Twain: How I Edited an Agricultural Paper

27 juni 2011

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Here’s my reading of Mark Twain’s classic short story, How I Edited an Agricultural Paper, a seriously funny and trenchant look at both journalism and agriculture. The guano is a fine bird, but great care is necessary in rearing it. It should not be imported earlier than June or later than September. In the winter... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/06/27/mark-twain-how-i-edited-an-agricultural-paper/" class="more-link" title="Read Mark Twain: How I Edited an Agricultural Paper">more </a> Lees meer

Knights of the Rainbow Table 07 — CONCLUSION

13 juni 2011

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Here’s part seven, the conclusion of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/06/13/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-07-conclusion/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 07 — CONCLUSION">more </a> Lees meer