A word to teachers, librarians, and people who want to donate money to me
Every time I put a book online for free, I get emails from readers who want to send me donations for the book. I appreciate their generous spirit, but I'm not interested in cash donations, because my...
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Introduction by John Perry Barlow
I can't begin to express how exciting it was hear that John Perry Barlow would write the introduction to this collection. This is, after all, the man who wrote The Declaration of Independence of...
View ArticleBook design by John D. Berry, cover by Ann Monn
John D. Berry, a legendary type designer, is responsible for the superb design of Content. I've often said that people value the physical book for its physicality (which is partly why giving away...
View ArticleContent review/reading on The Command Line podcast
This week, The Command Line podcast favored me with a stellar review from my new essay collection Content, along with readings of two of the essays: Amish for QWERTY and Science Fiction is the Only...
View ArticleFan-readings of essays from Content
Mathematician/physicist Jan Rubak has done me the honour of recording readings of six of the essays from my nonfiction collection, Content and uploading them to the Internet Archive. He's a great...
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Complete fan-reading of “Content”
Jan Rubak, a Canadian mathematician/physicist, has been reading aloud all the essays from my collection Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future and...
View ArticleLocus Award ballot for best sf of 2008 online
It's time again for Locus Magazine's annual public poll of the best works in science fiction for the preceding year, with the winners taking home the prestigious Locus Awards. I've been privileged to...
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Book-donation drive
In Canada, the US and the UK, kids will be going back to school in a short while, so now's a good time to remind you of the donation program for my books. Here's how it works: teachers, librarians...
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My essay collection Content, free in Italian
The Italian publisher Apogeo commissioned a professional Italian translation of my Creative Commons-licensed essay collection Content and released their edition as a free, noncommercial download!...
View ArticleLittle Brother and Content, the SiSu versions
Ralph Amissah converted a couple of my books to his really exciting format SiSu. SiSu uses simple human-reabable markup and auto-creates several ebook formats, including PDFs, HTML, Docx, Epub, and...
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On Big Data’s shrinking returns
In my new Guardian column, I point out that the big-data-driven surveillance business model is on the rocks. Once upon a time, you could sell soap with a slogan like “You will be clean,” but we become...
View ArticleSummer reading lists!
Canada’s public institutions were very good to me today! The CBC included Little Brother on its list of 100 Great YA Novels that make you proud to be Canadian. Not to be outdone, the Toronto Public...
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Why we’re still talking about Terminator and the Matrix
My July 2015 Locus column, Skynet Ascendant, suggests that the enduring popularity of images of homicidal, humanity-hating AIs has more to do with our present-day politics than computer science. As a...
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My upcoming events in Seattle
I’m teaching the Clarion West writing workshop in Seattle in late July, and you can come see me at two events, one on July 25, the other on July 28. Postcyberpunk and Paella: An intimate evening with...
View ArticleQ&A from Clarion West benefit/reading in Seattle
Here’s the Q&A portion of the Cory Doctorow in Conversation event I did to benefit the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop in Seattle on July 28, 2015. The audio was provided Frank Catalano, who also...
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Parenting and the Internet: the smarter, missing third way
My new Guardian column, What is missing from the kids’ internet? discusses three different approaches to teaching kids information literacy: firewall-based abstinence education;...
View ArticleInterview with O’Reilly Radar podcast
I did an interview (MP3) with the O’Reilly Radar podcast at the Solid conference last month; we talked about the Apollo 1201 project I’m doing with EFF. In the absence of any other confounding...
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Guardian column: Ulysses pacts and spying hacks: warrant canaries and binary...
As the world’s governments exercise exciting new gag-order snooping warrants that companies can never, ever talk about, companies are trying out a variety of “Ulysses pacts” that automatically...
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Coming to Reno’s Grassroots Books this Friday!
I’m doing a Q&A and signing at Reno’s Grassroots Books — a local, indie store with an emphasis on affordable reading for all — this Friday, Aug 28 at 6:30PM — just a quick stop on the way to That...
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