The Curious Engineer

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

2006–2007

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2007 295

December 2007

  1. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 26
  2. Neil Gaiman on Little Brother
  3. Reading of Alice in Wonderland
  4. Taugshow video
  5. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 25
  6. I’m a Forbes Web Celeb!
  7. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 24
  8. Scroogled in Latvian, Italian and Portuguese
  9. Downloads give Amazon jungle fever
  10. My Guardian column on Amazon and downloads
  11. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 23
  12. This Week in Tech
  13. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 22
  14. Printcrime fanfic tells the story from the cop’s perspective
  15. Italian version of When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
  16. Hello Cory — the audio
  17. I’m a fanfic!

November 2007

  1. Audio from cocktail robotics festival speeches in Vienna
  2. Downloaded BBC programmes should be forever
  3. Column on how the BBC’s iPlayer sellout will cost Britain its inventors
  4. How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
  5. My column on Facebook’s coming social meltdown
  6. Scroogled in Romanian and Macedonian
  7. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 21
  8. Other People’s Money: the podcast
  9. Speaking in Vienna this weekend at Roboexotica, the cocktail robotics festival
  10. Thinknet piece on Internet immunity disorder
  11. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 20
  12. Internet Immune Systems
  13. Warhol is turning in his grave
  14. My column on photo-ban at London’s Pop Art Portraits show
  15. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 19
  16. Scroogled in Polish
  17. Creative Commons
  18. My Locus column on using CC licenses
  19. Scroogled in Dutch
  20. How Big Media’s Copyright Campaigns Threaten Internet Free Expression
  21. Why artists should worry less about piracy and more about how much it costs to publish online
  22. Scroogled in Bulgarian and German
  23. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 18
  24. 0wnz0red in Swedish
  25. Why a rights robocop will never work
  26. My Guardian column on automated copyright enforcement

October 2007

  1. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 17
  2. Craphound in German
  3. Craphound in German
  4. Someone Comes to Town and Truncat in Slovakian
  5. Someone Comes to Town and Truncat in Slovak
  6. Scroogled in Russian and Persian
  7. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 16
  8. Video interview with German blog
  9. Other Peoples’ Money
  10. Forbes story on the future of work: Other Peoples’ Money
  11. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 015
  12. Spanish fan-translation of Scroogled
  13. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 014
  14. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, French fan-trans
  15. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, French fan-trans
  16. German edition of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – also CC licensed!
  17. German edition of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – also CC licensed!
  18. Some Fantastic
  19. The Future of Ignoring Things
  20. The Future of Ignoring Things
  21. My Thinkernet column on tools to help you forget things
  22. Online censorship hurts us all
  23. My Guardian column on censorship and copyright
  24. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 013

September 2007

  1. Interview with the Associated Press
  2. Speaking at San Francisco’s Zend PHP con
  3. My CBC radio column on the “information economy”
  4. I, Robot in Romanian
  5. Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal
  6. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 012
  7. Interview on Australia’s Book Show
  8. Cory Doctorow cosplayers at the XKCD picnic
  9. Free data sharing is here to stay
  10. My Guardian column on the “information economy”
  11. Audio from my privacy talk at the O’Reilly Open Source convention
  12. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 011
  13. Audio from my Beijing Bookworm speech
  14. Pre-order my new comic series
  15. Scroogled
  16. Scroogled, a short story for Radar about the day Google became evil
  17. Video from my Beijing Bookworm talk
  18. My opening remarks from WorldCon copyright panel
  19. I’m teaching Clarion West in 2008
  20. Overclocked in a music video
  21. Overclocked in a music video
  22. Second Life edition of Printcrime minicomic
  23. Second Life edition of Printcrime minicomic
  24. My CBC radio column on Digital Lysenkoism
  25. Video on being a better blogger
  26. Speaking in Beijing next week
  27. Locus column on the case for Creative Commons for sf writers
  28. Free(konomic) E-books
  29. DRM Vendors Are Pushing the Impossible

August 2007

  1. Podcast with Patrick Nielsen Hayden on the future of SF, copyright and tech
  2. Spanish fan-trans of Printcrime
  3. Spanish fan-trans of Printcrime
  4. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 010
  5. Song based on Eastern Standard Tribe
  6. Get-together tomorrow in Melbourne
  7. Me and Brian Wood interviewed on iFanboy
  8. My WorldCon Yokohama schedule
  9. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 009
  10. Don’t fall for the Potemkin scam
  11. My column on DRM’s Potemkin Village for The Guardian
  12. My schedule at Melbourne Writers’ Festival, Aug 25-26
  13. DailyLit adds the rest of my books to its page-a-day email service
  14. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 008
  15. Why Is Hollywood Making A Sequel To The Napster Wars?
  16. My column on Hollywood’s remake of the Napster Wars
  17. Charity sf anthology to fight diabetes
  18. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 007

July 2007

  1. Digital Lysenkoism
  2. My Digital Lysenkoism column for the Guardian
  3. Alterati
  4. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 006
  5. My Homeland Security tee for sale on Shirt.Woot
  6. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 005
  7. San Diego appearances: tonight at Mysterious Galaxy, next week at ComicCon
  8. Scholarly take on Eastern Standard Tribe
  9. Scholarly take on Eastern Standard Tribe
  10. The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights
  11. Locus column on futurism and the progressive apocalypse
  12. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 004
  13. A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes Law
  14. My column on how DRM becomes law
  15. Down and Out is the summer reading pick at McMaster U
  16. Down and Out is the summer reading pick at McMaster U
  17. Reading/signing in San Diego, July 18, Mysterious Galaxy books
  18. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 003
  19. Interview on CBC’s Q

June 2007

  1. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 002
  2. The Hacker Crackdown, Part 001
  3. Slovak fan-translations of my books
  4. Slovak fan-translations of my books
  5. Slovak fan-translations of my books
  6. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth wins the Locus Award!
  7. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth wins the Locus Award!
  8. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life, Part 07
  9. How Hollywood, Congress, And DRM Are Beating Up The American Economy
  10. How the copyright wars started
  11. Snitchtown
  12. Forbes editorial on the future of urban surveillance
  13. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life, Part 06
  14. My UC Irvine talk on copyright and trade policy
  15. See No Evil?
  16. Editorial on Internet filtering in the Guardian
  17. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life, Part 05
  18. Remixable tracks for song based on Overclocked
  19. Remixable tracks for song based on Overclocked

May 2007

  1. Speaking at UC Irvine next Wednesday
  2. My talk at Google about trade policy, copyright and Happy Meal toys
  3. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life, Part 04
  4. Podcast feed for Overclocked
  5. Podcast feed for Overclocked
  6. In Praise of Fanfic
  7. In Praise of Fanfic
  8. Audio from LA Times panel
  9. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life, Part 03
  10. Interview with Hal Stern, Sun VP of Software
  11. Rudy Rucker, Terry Bisson and me in San Francico last night
  12. SciFi.com site of the week
  13. How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community
  14. Troll-fighting techniques that work
  15. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life, Part 02
  16. Interview with Oort Cloud
  17. Sam Kieth cover for Anda’s Game comic
  18. Sam Kieth cover for Anda’s Game comic
  19. Reading/speaking with Rudy Rucker in San Francisco next Wednesday
  20. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life, Part 01
  21. Nonsense words from Overclocked
  22. Nonsense words from Overclocked
  23. Interview with David Weinberger
  24. LA tonight: USC FreeCulture club’s send off for me

April 2007

  1. Reading from Little Brother, my May, 2008 young adult novel
  2. Speaking at the LA Times Festival of Books this Sunday
  3. Next Tues, May 1: USC Free Culture sendoff and BBQ
  4. Eastern Standard Tribe is a podiobook — and banned in Boston!
  5. Eastern Standard Tribe is a podiobook — and banned in Boston!
  6. Peter Gutmann’s A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, Part 4 – CONCLUSION
  7. Locus Award finalists – I’m a double nominee!
  8. Locus Award finalists – I’m a double nominee!
  9. Me as a robo-hobo
  10. /shitlist comes to IRC, inspired by Eastern Standard Tribe
  11. /shitlist comes to IRC, inspired by Eastern Standard Tribe
  12. Interview on Australia’s Sci-Phi show
  13. Why Online Games Are Dictatorships
  14. Is it possible to make a democratic online game?
  15. Rocky Mountain News
  16. Peter Gutmann’s A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, Part 3
  17. Locus Poll closes tomorrow!
  18. Peter Gutmann’s A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, Part 2
  19. Speaking in San Diego next week
  20. Profile in the Chronicle of Higher Education
  21. Peter Gutmann’s A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, Part 1

March 2007

  1. My Pioneer Award acceptance speech
  2. Overclocked signing in San Diego next Thursday
  3. Overclocked signing in San Diego next Thursday
  4. I’m the punchline of today’s xkcd
  5. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 011 — CONCLUSION
  6. Interview with This Conference Is Being Recorded
  7. IDW will do six comics based on my stories
  8. IDW will do six comics based on my stories
  9. Craig Newmark
  10. You DO Like Reading Off Screens
  11. You DO Like Reading Off Screens
  12. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 010
  13. Rambles
  14. Audio from last night’s privacy talk in Vancouver
  15. I’ve won the EFF Pioneer Award
  16. The Web Can Humiliate Dumb Companies. Can It Make Them Smarter?
  17. Can the Web make dumb companies smarter?
  18. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 009
  19. Interview on KRUU FM
  20. Clarion: bootcamp for sf writers — application deadline Apr 1, 2007!
  21. Vancouver Sun profile
  22. I’m a webtoon!

February 2007

  1. Interview on Yatterings
  2. Coming to Toronto this weekend for Ad Astra
  3. My Duke privacy talk — audio
  4. Comprehensive, interactive fiction bibliography
  5. Claude LaLumiere
  6. Sci Fi Weekly
  7. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 008
  8. Lectures from my USC class
  9. Win naming rights to a Themepunks character
  10. Steve Jobs’ iTunes dance
  11. North Carolina talks today
  12. Song based on Overclocked
  13. Song based on Overclocked
  14. Interview on Thunderbird Six podcast
  15. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 007
  16. Duke, UNC this Thursday!
  17. French translation of Giving it Away
  18. LA book-launch: TONIGHT!
  19. LA book-launch: TONIGHT!
  20. Interview in Janus Magazine
  21. Rick Kleffel
  22. Coming to Duke, UNC, Ad Astra Toronto
  23. Coming to Duke, UNC, Ad Astra Toronto
  24. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 006
  25. Phone-in “podcast” interview today at 1:30PM Pacific
  26. Interview with NPR’s Rick Kleffel
  27. Vancouver lectures, Overclocked launch, Mar 8/9
  28. Vancouver speech, Overclocked launch, Mar 8/9
  29. Down and Out in Brazilian Portuguese
  30. Down and Out in Brazilian Portuguese
  31. Audio from last night’s launch at Borderlands
  32. Audio from last night’s launch at Borderlands
  33. Transcript of RU Sirius radio interview
  34. Transcript of RU Sirius radio interview
  35. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 005
  36. Sysadmins and I, Row-Boat on this year’s Locus poll
  37. Sysadmins and I, Row-Boat on this year’s Locus poll
  38. Down and Out by email
  39. Down and Out by email
  40. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 004
  41. Shrinkwrap Licenses: An Epidemic Of Lawsuits Waiting To Happen
  42. LA launch, Feb 15 at Secret Headquarters, Silver Lake
  43. Book launch in LA Feb 15 at Secret Headquarters, Silver Lake

January 2007

  1. Guest on RU Sirius’s radio show
  2. Guest on RU Sirius’s radio show
  3. Printcrime audio from Beam Me Up
  4. Printcrime audio from Beam Me Up
  5. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 003 – fixed
  6. I made Forbes’s top 25 “Web Celebs”
  7. Speaking at UCLA, Friday Feb 9
  8. Me as a Lego minifig
  9. Duke University book launch, Feb 22
  10. Duke University book launch, Feb 22
  11. Mini-comic of Printcrime
  12. Mini-comic of Printcrime
  13. Entertainment Weekly
  14. Printcrime remixed
  15. Printcrime remixed
  16. I’m a Davos Junior Woodchuck!
  17. Whuffie in web-comic
  18. Whuffie in web-comic
  19. Eastern Standard Tribe, Part 002
  20. My new short story collection: OVERCLOCKED
  21. Speaking in NYC next week
  22. Eastern Standard Tribe podcast
  23. Eastern Standard Tribe podcast
  24. Book launch in San Francisco, Feb 8 with Rudy Rucker
  25. Printcrime on Escape Pod
  26. Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
  27. After the Siege on The Infinite Matrix
  28. Book launch in Toronto, Feb 1, 2007
  29. About this site/FAQ
  30. Get a signed copy shipped to your door
  31. Sfrevu
  32. Kirkus Reviews
  33. Overclocked interview and review on SFRevu.com

2006 143

December 2006

  1. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth in The Rake
  2. Gone until Jan 2, 2007
  3. Someone Comes to Town quoted on CBS’s Criminal Minds
  4. Someone Comes to Town quoted on CBS’s Criminal Minds
  5. Interview on deep geek podcast, the Command Line
  6. Publishers Weekly
  7. My novels used as test-docs for speed-reading app
  8. French interview
  9. Giving it Away
  10. My future of books op-ed for Forbes

November 2006

  1. Introducing Kirby Dick/This Film is Not Yet Rated this Thu in LA
  2. Power Punctuation, Part 3 — CONCLUSION
  3. EFF Staff Technologist free talk in LA next Tuesday
  4. Locus column: why science fiction and high-def don’t mix
  5. Audio from my PSU talk
  6. Power Punctuation, Part 2
  7. Xbox hacker speaking at my lecture series next Tuesday
  8. Power Punctuation, Part 1
  9. Gilmore, Barlow and Kapor speak at my lecture series, Nov 14

October 2006

  1. Pwned: My new USC undergrad course is open
  2. EFF’s Fred von Lohmann gives free talk at USC next Tues, Nov 7
  3. Interview on Mur Lafferty’s “I Should Be Writing” podcast
  4. Guest of Honor at OryCon in Portland, Nov 17-19
  5. Group interview from Viennese indie TV
  6. Speaking at Utopiales con in Nantes, France
  7. Full-cast audio adaptation of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
  8. Full-cast audio adaptation of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
  9. My talk at ToorCon hacker’s convention
  10. Appearance on The Linux Link Tech Show
  11. I, Robot in Hebrew
  12. Whuffie is now running code
  13. Whuffie is now running code

September 2006

  1. High-Definition Video — Bad For Consumers, Bad For Hollywood
  2. New InfoWeek column on dangers of high-def TV
  3. 0wz0red, Part 4 – CONCLUSION
  4. Interview with SciFi Channel SciFi Weekly
  5. Ownz0red, Part 3
  6. My DRM speech at LIFT Geneva – video
  7. Ownz0red, Part 2
  8. Down and Out as a poster!
  9. Down and Out as a poster!
  10. Toshiba’s DRM lawyer gives a public talk next Tuesday
  11. Co-editing Canadian sf anthology, we want your stories!
  12. Locus column: How Copyright Broke
  13. Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care About Enough to Steal on the Internet
  14. How Copyright Broke
  15. Articles
  16. USC copyright rules are flawed
  17. Copyright op-ed in Monday’s USC Daily Trojan
  18. Bruce Schneier and Bruce Sterling at USC, Sept 25 & 26
  19. 0wnz0red, Part 1
  20. Heartwarming Creative Commons success-story
  21. Lost mail from last night, please re-send
  22. EFF’s Jason Schultz at my USC speaker-series next Tuesday

August 2006

  1. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
  2. My Fulbright signing ceremony talk
  3. I, Row-Boat
  4. Talk at USC next Wednesday
  5. After the Siege
  6. Truncat, Part 03 – CONCLUSION
  7. Websense censors my podcast – UPDATED
  8. Truncat, Part 02
  9. Interview with me at Singularity Summit
  10. My WorldCon schedule
  11. Truncat, Part 01
  12. Interview with CBC radio’s Sounds Like Canada

July 2006

  1. Free shipping on signed, inscribed copies of my books
  2. How iTunes screws the music industry and the public
  3. CBC column on authority and the Internet
  4. My Microsoft DRM talk video
  5. Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet
  6. I, Row-Boat, Part 4 – CONCLUSION
  7. I, Row-Boat, Part 3

June 2006

  1. I, Row-Boat, Part 02
  2. I, Row-Boat, Part 01
  3. Interview with ABC’s LateNightLive
  4. Free UK shipping on signed copies of “Someone Comes to Town”
  5. News
  6. Someone Comes to Town shortlisted for Canada’s Sunburst award
  7. Someone Comes to Town shortlisted for Canada’s Sunburst award
  8. Visit the Sins, Part 02 – CONCLUSION
  9. Visit the Sins, Part 01
  10. This year’s Hugo ballot is online
  11. The Super-Man and the Bugout, Part 03 – CONCLUSION
  12. Super-Man and the Bugout, Part 02

May 2006

  1. Super-Man and the Bugout, Part 01
  2. Fan art for Anda’s Game
  3. Home Again, Home Again, Part 03 — CONCLUSION
  4. NIMBY and the D-Hoppers in Italian
  5. Home Again, Home Again, Part 02
  6. Free
  7. Free UK shipping on signed copies of my books until June 19
  8. Home Again, Home Again, Part 01
  9. Shadow of the Mothaship podcast, Part 03 – CONCLUSION
  10. Shadow of the Mothaship podcast, Part 02

April 2006

  1. Shadow of the Mothaship podcast, Part 01
  2. Triple Locus Awards finalist!
  3. Anda’s Game in Russian, Kurzweil interview in Italian
  4. Gene Wolfe
  5. Publishers Weekly
  6. Nimby and Kurzweil article in Spanish, CC licensed
  7. Moving to LA for a year, teaching at USC
  8. Neil Gaiman
  9. Upcoming Australia talks in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney

March 2006

  1. On holidays until April 12
  2. I, Robot is a Hugo nominee!
  3. Audio from last Sunday’s Copyfighters speeches
  4. My Guest of Honor speech at Boskone
  5. Nimby and the D-Hopper podcast concludes
  6. Nimby and the D-Hoppers, Part 03 – CONCLUSION
  7. Nimby and the D-Hoppers, Part 02
  8. Nimby in Hebrew, too
  9. Nimby and the D-Hoppers, Part 01
  10. Alternative Down and Out cover, mark II
  11. Talk at Olin College
  12. Alternative Down and Out cover, mark II
  13. Audio from Euro Open Source talk
  14. Return to Pleasure Island, Part 04 — CONCLUSION
  15. Interview on MIT Radio’s Dinnertime Sampler
  16. Return to Pleasure Island, Part 03
  17. Hugo nominations open to Mar 10
  18. Return to Pleasure Island, Part 02

February 2006

  1. London Copyfighters: Speak at Speaker’s Corner on Mar 19!
  2. I, Robot podcast to be aired on FM station
  3. Interview on Bit-Tech
  4. Return to Pleasure Island, Part 01
  5. I, Robot, Part 5 — FIXED
  6. I, Robot podcast concludes
  7. I, Robot, Part 05 – CONCLUSION – FIXED
  8. Interlude: Audio of last-night’s “open content” panel
  9. I, Robot, Part 04
  10. Interview in IBM Insights magazine
  11. I, Robot, Part 03
  12. I, Robot, Part 02
  13. I, Robot, Part 01
  14. Speaking in London next Wednesday
  15. Human Readable, Part 07 – CONCLUSION
  16. Late for my talk tonight in Boston
  17. Human Readable, Part 06
  18. Seeking free banner space for Clarion writers’ workshop
  19. Kaffeeklatsch at Boskone
  20. Interlude: Speech on Europe’s coming Broadcast Flag
  21. Human Readable, Part 05

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