Gadgetopia

cory doctorow visits a radio shack: Oh my, this is funny. I like Cory and all (never met him, but I like his "Net representation," anyway), and he's a fellow FM blogger but this is still spot-on. As someone once said about me, that guy is running through the Internet ...

Cory quit his day-job: Cory Doctorow is leaving the EFF to be a full-time writer. In this post announcing the move, he does a good job explaining why the EFF matters so much. EFF has a problem: we work on issues before anyone knows that they matter. In 2002, we ...

Cory's moving to LA to teach at USC: Interesting news out of Boing Boing. I've accepted a Fulbright Chair at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy, starting this August. I'll be researching and writing a book on DRM called SET TOP COP: HOLLYWOOD'S SECRET WAR ON AMERICA'S ...

EMI will sell songs without copy protection on iTunes: Cory Doctorow, 1. Jack Valenti, 0. Giant record label EMI Music said Monday it plans to sell songs without built-in copy protection on iTunes and other digital music services. EMI, the label of Norah Jones, Coldplay, Iggy Pop and many other ...

I finally got around to reading Cory Doctorow's novella novel (see the comments), "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom." It's quite good, and he's got it posted for free on his Web site (in no less than 17 different formats). You may know Doctorow from Boing Boing fame. If ...

High court deals a blow to file-sharing services: File sharing lost big time today with the Supreme Court ruling on the Grokster case. Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled ...

Eastern Standard Tribe: Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow has released his second novel, "Eastern Standard Tribe." Just like the first, he's giving this one away in umpteen different formats. He makes this argument for his generosity: ...trying stuff and doing research yields a non-zero chance of success. The alternatives sitting ...

Why Time Warner Has Fallen in Love With AOL, Again: I can't believe Cory Doctorow hasn't jumped all over this yet. It's a case study for his point-of-view. [...] America Online is not merely alive but defiantly healthy -- especially when it needs to be, having recently taken a terrifying ...

Copyright protected physical space: Cory Doctorow has written a very short (four paragraphs) explanation of why copyrights start to get fuzzy in the world of new technology. Cory points out the absurdity of a photography kiosk at a county fair putting out a sign claiming that there are no cameras ...

Why Microsoft won't beat Six Apart: A good article on how and why software gets adopted by the masses. Interesting information on what happened with Quark. "I wouldn't worry too much yet, because no team has asked me the important question yet. What's that? 'How do you get the A-list ...

SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market: Gartner has issued a stronger warning on using Linux in the enterprise. They've warned about this before, but this time they even advised a certain segment to pay off SCO: "Don't ignore the problem by hoping IBM will win or settle its lawsuit ...

What is it with the geek novels these days? It all started with Stealing the Network. This book is a novel and security primer rolled up into one. Stealing the Network is a book of science fiction. It's a series of short stories about characters who gain unauthorized access to ...

EditPlus Text Editor, HTML Editor, Programmers Editor for Windows - Welcome!: A while back, Cory Doctorow had a little love-in for BBEdit, apparently the greatest text editor for Macs ever made. Well, after mentioning it a number of times over the years, it's time I did the same for the ...

The Internet has changed my desire to own things. I ve been through a distinct progression in this regard in the 10+ years I ve been online. I remember first getting online at the computer lab at Augustana College and looking up stuff about James Bond. It was all very interesting, but ...