The Curious Engineer

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

2012–2026

1,366 posts

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2026 19

October 2026

  1. Swapping money for expertise

September 2026

  1. LLMs are real, AI is fake
  2. Technopolitics

August 2026

  1. Why businesses lie about AI

July 2026

  1. Post-political
  2. Hell Is Other People
  3. Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers

June 2026

  1. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI launch at Kepler’s Books with Angie Coiro
  2. The world has moved on
  3. The age of vapor

May 2026

  1. AI and a world without migrants
  2. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI
  3. Comrade Trump

April 2026

  1. Not Normal

February 2026

  1. All laws are local
  2. Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity

January 2026

  1. Code is a liability (not an asset)
  2. (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU, November 27, 2025)
  3. The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)

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December 2025

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition

November 2025

  1. Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome

October 2025

  1. Enshittification With Ed Zitron at the Seattle Public Library
  2. Enshittification With Lina Khan at the Brooklyn Public Library
  3. The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
  4. Announcing the Enshittification tour

September 2025

  1. By all means, tread on those people

August 2025

  1. Enshittification (episode 500!)

April 2025

  1. Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION
  2. Nimby and the D-Hoppers

March 2025

  1. Why I don’t like AI art
  2. There were always enshittifiers

February 2025

  1. With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
  2. Picks and Shovels virtual launch with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop, presented by Jacobin
  3. MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing
  4. Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour
  5. Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs

January 2025

  1. The Weight of a Feather (The Weight of a Heart)
  2. Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital
  3. Picks and Shovels Chapter One

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December 2024

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast 2024
  2. Spill, part six (FINALE) (a Little Brother story)
  3. Spill, part five (a Little Brother story)

October 2024

  1. Spill, part four (a Little Brother story)
  2. Spill, part three (a Little Brother story)
  3. Spill, part two (a Little Brother story)
  4. Spill, part one (a Little Brother story)

September 2024

  1. Vigilant (a Little Brother story)
  2. Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster
  3. Marshmallow Longtermism

August 2024

  1. AI’s productivity theater

July 2024

  1. Unpersoned

June 2024

  1. The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you
  2. My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk
  3. Against Lore

May 2024

  1. Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230
  2. No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story

April 2024

  1. Precaratize Bosses
  2. Capitalists Hate Capitalism
  3. I’m coming to Los Angeles, Boston, Providence, Chicago, Turin, Marin, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and Tartu, Estonia!
  4. Subprime gadgets

March 2024

  1. Catch me at San Francisco Public Library on Mar 13, discussing my new novel “The Bezzle” with Robin Sloan!

February 2024

  1. The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship
  2. How I Got Scammed
  3. Come see me on tour! LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Phoenix, Portland, Providence, Boston, New York City, Toronto, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Chicago, Amherst, Torino, Tartu.
  4. My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference

January 2024

  1. What kind of bubble is AI?
  2. The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt)

2023 24

December 2023

  1. The Internet’s Original Sin
  2. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2023 edition
  3. Don’t Be Evil

November 2023

  1. Announcing The Lost Cause Tour
  2. Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown)
  3. The Canadian Miracle, Part 2
  4. The Canadian Miracle, Part 1

October 2023

  1. Microincentives and Enshittification
  2. The Lost Cause (excerpt)

September 2023

  1. How To Think About Scraping
  2. Plausible Sentence Generators

August 2023

  1. Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet
  2. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (audiobook outtake)

July 2023

  1. Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires

June 2023

  1. Ideas Lying Around

May 2023

  1. The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point

April 2023

  1. The Red Team Blues tour: Burbank, SF, PDX, Berkeley, YVR, Calgary, Gaithersburg, DC, Toronto, Hay, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Berlin
  2. How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok
  3. Red Team Blues: Behind the Scenes with Wil Wheaton

March 2023

  1. Red Team Blues
  2. Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk

February 2023

  1. Twiddler
  2. Tiktok’s enshittification

January 2023

  1. Social Quitting

2022 27

December 2022

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2022 Edition

September 2022

  1. Twitch Does a Chokepoint Capitalism
  2. Sound Money

August 2022

  1. What is Chokepoint Capitalism?
  2. So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me

July 2022

  1. View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe
  2. Why none of my books are available on Audible

June 2022

  1. Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts
  2. Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers
  3. Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism
  4. Against Cozy Catastrophies

May 2022

  1. Apple’s Cement Overshoes
  2. About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors
  3. Revenge Of The Chickenized Reverse Centaurs

April 2022

  1. Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content
  2. When Automation Becomes Enforcement
  3. The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis

March 2022

  1. The Byzantine Premium
  2. What is “Peak Indifference?”
  3. Vertically Challenged
  4. All (Broadband) Politics Are Local

February 2022

  1. We Should Not Endure a King
  2. The Internet Heist (Part III)
  3. The Internet Heist (Part II)
  4. The Internet Heist (Part I)

January 2022

  1. A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
  2. Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature

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December 2021

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2021 Edition
  2. Give Me Slack

November 2021

  1. Jam To-Day
  2. The Unimaginable

October 2021

  1. Against the great forces of history
  2. Dead Letters
  3. Hope, Not Optimism
  4. The Attack Surface paperback is out (and a once-in-a-lifetime deal on the Little Brother audiobooks)
  5. Take It Back

September 2021

  1. Breaking In (fixed)

August 2021

  1. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility and Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs
  2. Disneyland at a stroll
  3. Managing Aggregate Demand
  4. Are We Having Fun Yet?

July 2021

  1. Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability
  2. Self Publishing

June 2021

  1. Qualia
  2. Inside The Clock Tower
  3. The Rent’s Too Damned High
  4. I Quit

May 2021

  1. The Memex Method
  2. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 07)
  3. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 06)
  4. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 05)

April 2021

  1. Norwegian and German editions of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
  2. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 04)
  3. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 03)
  4. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 02)
  5. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 01)

March 2021

  1. Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results
  2. Free Markets

February 2021

  1. Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 3)
  2. Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 2)
  3. Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 1)
  4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 31 – CONCLUSION)
  5. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 30)

January 2021

  1. Talking Attack Surface in the LA Review of Books
  2. A free Danish ebook of Little Brother
  3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 29)
  4. Launching a print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM
  5. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 28)
  6. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 27)
  7. Mashapedia

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December 2020

  1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 26)
  2. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2020 Edition
  3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 25)

November 2020

  1. The Attack Surface Lectures: Tech in SF
  2. Talking interop on EFF’s podcast
  3. The Attack Surface Lectures: Sci-Fi Genre
  4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 24)
  5. The Attack Surface Lectures: Opsec and Personal Cyber-Security
  6. The Attack Surface Lectures: Little Revolutions
  7. The Attack Surface Lectures: Cyberpunk and Post Cyberpunk
  8. The Attack Surface Lectures: Intersectionality: Race, Surveillance, and Tech and Its History
  9. The Attack Surface Lectures: Cross-Media Sci-Fi
  10. Attack Surface Lectures master post
  11. The Attack Surface Lectures: Politics and Protest (fixed)
  12. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 23)
  13. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 22)
  14. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 21)

October 2020

  1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 20)
  2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 19)
  3. Stop Techno Dystopia with SRSLY WRONG
  4. My appearance on the Judge John Hodgman podcast!
  5. Talking writing with the Writing Excuses crew
  6. Attack Surface is out!
  7. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 18)
  8. Danish Little Brother, now a free, CC-licensed download
  9. Free copies of Attack Surface for institutions (schools, libraries, classrooms, etc)
  10. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 17)

September 2020

  1. Attack Surface on the MMT Podcast
  2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 16)
  3. Announcing the Attack Surface tour
  4. Poesy the Monster Slayer
  5. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 15)
  6. IP
  7. My first-ever Kickstarter: the audiobook for Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book
  8. Attack Surface Kickstarter Promo Excerpt!
  9. Get Radicalized for a mere $2.99

August 2020

  1. How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
  2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 14)
  3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 13)
  4. Terra Nullius
  5. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 12)

July 2020

  1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 11)
  2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 10)
  3. Full Employment
  4. Full Employment
  5. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 09)

June 2020

  1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 08)
  2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 07)
  3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 06)
  4. Talking tech and protests with the Out of Left Field podcast
  5. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 05)
  6. Rave for “Poesy the Monster Slayer”
  7. How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse

May 2020

  1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 04)
  2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 03)
  3. Rules for Writers
  4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 02)

April 2020

  1. A new Marcus Yallow/Little Brother story!
  2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 01)
  3. John Scalzi’s The Last Emperox
  4. Radio Free Burrito Presents Return To Pleasure Island By Cory Doctorow (fixed)
  5. Radio Free Burrito Presents Return To Pleasure Island By Cory Doctorow
  6. Podcast swap: Wil Wheaton on Little Brother
  7. The Jubilee: Fill Your Boots

March 2020

  1. Pluralistic my old fashioned link blog
  2. Author’s Note from Attack Surface
  3. 88 Names podcast (fixed) (for real)
  4. Data – the new oil, or potential for a toxic oil spill?
  5. My appearance on Cool Tools
  6. Data is the new toxic waste
  7. Talking digital writing careers with the Writing Excuses podcast
  8. The Masque of the Red Death and Punch Brothers Punch
  9. The Masque of the Red Death
  10. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
  11. A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick
  12. Audio from the Kelowna Canada Reads event with Sarah Penton
  13. A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick
  14. Interview with the Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons podcast (Part II)
  15. Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopias

February 2020

  1. Talking Radicalized with CBC’s Shelagh Rogers on The Next Chapter
  2. Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers’ Fortresses
  3. Pluralist, your daily link-dose: 24 Feb 2020
  4. Pluralist, your daily link-dose: 22 Feb 2020
  5. Pluralist, a daily link-dose: 21 Feb 2020
  6. Pluralist, a daily link-dose: 20 Feb 2020
  7. Pluralist: 19 Feb 2020
  8. Little Brother: a virtual “escape room” created by an 11th grade class in Germany!
  9. Talking Adversarial Interoperability with the Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons podcast (Part I)
  10. Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention
  11. Podcast: In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis

January 2020

  1. I’m the Author Guest of Honor at Baycon 2020, May 22-25!
  2. The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states
  3. Radicalized is a Canada Reads finalist, will be a graphic novel, and is eligible for the Hugo Award!
  4. Imagining a “smart city” that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed
  5. Inaction is a form of action
  6. Radicalized makes the CBC’s annual Canada Reads longlist
  7. Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things
  8. Permitting the growth of monopolies is a form of government censorship
  9. Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change

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December 2019

  1. Science fiction, Canada and the 2020s: my look at the decade ahead for the Globe and Mail
  2. Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 4) (the final part!)
  3. Radicalized is one of the LA Public Library’s books of the year!
  4. My annual Daddy-Daughter Xmas Podcast: interview with an 11-year-old
  5. Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 3)
  6. Radicalized is one of the Wall Street Journal’s top sf books of 2019!
  7. Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 2)
  8. Radicalized is one of the CBC’s best books of 2019!
  9. Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 1)
  10. Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs’s plan to build a surveilling “smart city” in Toronto

November 2019

  1. Talking Adversarial Interoperability with Y Combinator
  2. The Engagement-Maximization Presidency
  3. Talking about Disney’s 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future
  4. I made Wil Wheaton recite the digits of Pi for four minutes, then a fan set it to music
  5. Jeannette Ng Was Right: John W. Campbell Was a Fascist
  6. Jeannette Ng was right: John W Campbell was a fascist
  7. Talking with The Storyteller’s Thread about YA literature, activism, and technological rebellion

October 2019

  1. Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve
  2. “Affordances”: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve
  3. Can we change our politics with science fiction? A conversation with the How Do You Like It So Far podcast
  4. Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll
  5. Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance
  6. Talking corruption, technology, empiricism and fairness with the Bitcoin Podcast
  7. Crowdfunding a symposium on a green, postcapitalist economics in Brussels, Nov 11
  8. False Flag
  9. Part two of my novella “Martian Chronicles” on Escape Pod: who cleans the toilets in libertopia?
  10. Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
  11. Revealing the cover of “Poesy the Monster Slayer,” my first-ever picture book!
  12. “Martian Chronicles”: Escape Pod releases a reading of my YA story about rich sociopaths colonizing Mars
  13. One way to determine whether your publisher is happy with your work

September 2019

  1. Short documentary on the quest to re-decentralize the internet
  2. Come see me in Portland, Maine next Monday with James Patrick Kelly
  3. My appearance on Futurithmic
  4. Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
  5. Charles de Lint on Radicalized
  6. Podcast: DRM Broke Its Promise
  7. Come see me in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Toronto and Maine!
  8. Talking RADICALIZED and MAKERS on Writers Voice
  9. Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto’s plan to let Google build a surveillance-based “smart city” along its waterfront
  10. Podcast: Barlow’s Legacy
  11. Podcast: Barlow’s Legacy
  12. They told us DRM would give us more for less, but they lied

August 2019

  1. My MMT Podcast appearance, part 2: monopoly, money, and the power of narrative
  2. Where to catch me at Burning Man!
  3. Podcast: A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition
  4. My appearance on the MMT podcast
  5. Podcast: Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle
  6. Podcast: “IBM PC Compatible”: how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization
  7. Paul Di Filippo on Radicalized: “Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and Dickensian-Hugonian ashcan realism”

July 2019

  1. Houstonites! Come see Hank Green and me in conversation tomorrow night!
  2. Podcast: Adblocking: How About Nah?
  3. Podcast: Adversarial Interoperability is Judo for Network Effects
  4. Appearance on the Jim Rutt Podcast
  5. Podcast: Occupy Gotham
  6. I appeared on Nanowrimo’s awesome Write-Minded podcast to talk about Radicalized
  7. Where to catch me at San Diego Comic-Con!
  8. Steering with the Windshield Wipers
  9. Fake News is an Oracle
  10. “Fake News is an Oracle”: how the falsehoods we believe reveal the truth about our fears and aspirations

June 2019

  1. Houston! Come see Hank Green and me on July 31
  2. Podcast number 300: “Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today’s Monopolies”
  3. Join me today at 12PM Pacific for a New York Times/Periscope livestream about my “op-ed from the future”
  4. “I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times”: my op-ed from the future
  5. My Atlseccon keynote
  6. Competition can fix Big Tech, but only if we don’t make “bigness” a legal requirement

May 2019

  1. Los Angeles! Come see me at Exposition Park library this Thursday, talking about Big Tech, monopolies, mind control and the right of technological self-determination
  2. “What does it mean to keep the internet free?” An in-depth discussion with Why? on North Dakota Public Radio
  3. Naked Capitalism reviews Radicalized
  4. LA! Come see me this Saturday at the Nebula Awards Conference, and next Thursday at Exposition Park Library!
  5. re:publica 2019 – Cory Doctorow: It’s monopolies, not surveillance.
  6. Houston! I’m at Comicpalooza all weekend!
  7. “Steering With the Windshield Wipers”: why nothing we’re doing to fix Big Tech is working
  8. How the diverse internet became a monoculture
  9. A wonderful review for Radicalized in the Winnipeg Free Press
  10. Ottawa! I’m speaking tomorrow at the Writers Festival (and then Re:publica in Berlin and Comicpalooza in Houston!)
  11. I’m teaching on this year’s Writing Excuses Cruise!
  12. Internet Activist Cory Doctorow on How to Change the World
  13. Talking Radicalized, monopoly and DRM with the Techdirt podcast

April 2019

  1. Ottawa! I’ll be at the Writers Festival this Saturday night (then Berlin for Re:publica and Houston for Comicpalooza!)
  2. Talking Radicalized with the LA Public Library: Trump derangement syndrome, engagement algorithms, and novellas as checked luggage
  3. Halifax! I’m speaking at Atlseccon on April 24 (then Toronto, Ottawa, Berlin and Houston!)
  4. Tor’s Ebook Club is giving away copies of my novel WALKAWAY!
  5. Talking Radicalized with John Scalzi in the LA Times
  6. San Diego! I’m keynoting the 40th anniversary of the Friends of the Public Library tomorrow (then: UCLA and LA Times Festival of Books)
  7. Interview with the Left Field podcast about Radicalized and the EU Copyright Directive
  8. Occupy Gotham: my essay about the class war at the heart of Batman
  9. Burbank! I’ll be at Dark Delicacies this weekend (then San Diego, UCLA, LA Times Festival of Books)
  10. Talking about Radicalized with the CBC: Privilege, atavism, techno-realism and seizing the means of information
  11. Video from my Radicalized tour appearance at Toronto Public Library’s Metro Reference Library
  12. Interview with My Summer Lair
  13. Talking Radicalized, rum, writing, self-care and technological self-determination with Security Sandbox
  14. Socal! I’ll be in Burbank on April 7, San Diego on April 11 and UCLA on April 12

March 2019

  1. Come see me this weekend at Anaheim’s Wondercon!
  2. Seattle! Come see me Thursday at the Central Library with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Anaheim for Wondercon!
  3. Portland! Come see me tonight in Fort Vancouver with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Seattle & Anaheim!
  4. Talking Radicalized on Syfy Wire
  5. San Francisco! Come see me and Richard Kadrey in Berkeley on Monday with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Portland/Ft Vancouver, Seattle & Anaheim!
  6. Video from the Radicalized launch with Julia Angwin at The Strand
  7. Talking Radicalized on CBC’s Day 6, with Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail
  8. Chicago! I’m at C2E2 this weekend with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: San Francisco, Portland/Ft Vancouver, Seattle & Anaheim!
  9. Toronto! I’m at the Metro Reference Library tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Chicago, San Francisco, Portland/Ft Vancouver…
  10. NYC! I’m coming to The Strand tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco…
  11. San Diego! I’m coming to town tonight with my new book Radicalized! (next: NYC, Toronto, Chicago…)
  12. Los Angeles! I’m launching my new book Radicalized with Lexi Alexander tonight (next: San Diego, NYC, Toronto…)
  13. Radicalized is one of The Verge’s picks for March!
  14. I’m going out on tour with my new science fiction book RADICALIZED and I hope to see you!
  15. Where to catch me this weekend at SXSW
  16. Critical praise for RADICALIZED, my next book, from Booklist and Publishers Weekly
  17. Terra Nullius: Grifters, settler colonialism and “intellectual property”

February 2019

  1. Beyond “more copyright”: how do we improve artists’ lives and livelihoods through policy?
  2. Interview with Taming the Net: “How to preserve the freedom of the internet without letting the internet destroy democracy.”
  3. A free excerpt from UNAUTHORIZED BREAD, my latest audiobook

January 2019

  1. Announcing the audiobook for Unauthorized Bread: a DRM-free tale of DRM-locked appliances, refugees, and resistance
  2. Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday’s Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain
  3. Interview on A World That Might Just Work with Terrence McNally
  4. Revealed! The cover of RADICALIZED, my next book of science fiction
  5. Big Tech loves disruption, when they’re doing the disruption

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December 2018

  1. Video from the launch of the EFF/McSweeney’s “End of Trust” project launch with Cindy Cohn, Annalee Newitz, and me!
  2. Christmas podcast with Poesy, 2018 edition
  3. False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of copyright filters in an Article 13 Europe
  4. Podcast: “Sole and Despotic Dominion” and “What is the Internet For?”
  5. Talking dystopia, utopia, science fiction and theories of change on the Netzpolitik podcast
  6. Videos from the University of Chicago “Censorship and Information Control” seminar
  7. San Franciscans! Come celebrate the launch of the EFF/McSweeney’s special privacy issue with me on Dec 11!

November 2018

  1. Sole and Despotic Dominion: my story about the future of private property for Reason
  2. Talking about the DMCA and 20 years of tech law malpractice on PRI’s Marketplace
  3. The internet is made up revolutionary technologies, but isn’t revolutionary
  4. My keynote for Ethereum Devcon: without the rule of law, crypto fails
  5. Reminder: I’m speaking in Berlin tonight at the DTK-Wasserturm

October 2018

  1. I’m speaking in Berlin on November 5!
  2. “Radicalized” will be my next book!
  3. Talking about Ron Howard’s Haunted Mansion album with the Comedy on Vinyl podcast

September 2018

  1. Hey, Swarthmore! I’m headed your way next week
  2. Podcast: Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.
  3. To do in LA this Saturday: I’m speaking at the Pasadena Loves YA festival!
  4. Don’t just fine Big Tech for abuses; instead, cut them down to size
  5. I’m heading to New York for a lecture series at Columbia!
  6. Interview with EdSurge about educational technology, school surveillance, open access, and radical pedagogy
  7. Interview with Fringe FM on Surveillance Capitalism, Big Tech and the future of the internet

August 2018

  1. Deep dive into my backlist with the B&N Podcast
  2. I’m heading to Burning Man! (here’s where to find me)
  3. Talking surveillance, elections, monopolies, and Facebook on the Bots and Ballots podcast
  4. Talking the hard questions of privacy and freedom with the Yale Privacy Lab podcast
  5. Come see me at the Edinburgh Festival and/or Worldcon!
  6. My closing keynote from the second Decentralized Web Summit
  7. Talking copyright, internet freedom, artistic business models, and antitrust with Steal This Show

July 2018

  1. I’ll be live on BookTV’s In Depth on August 5!
  2. See you at Comic-Con!
  3. Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
  4. Portuguese translation of Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags
  5. The economics of Walkaway
  6. Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags

June 2018

  1. Podcast: Let’s get better at demanding better from tech
  2. Podcast: Petard, Part 04 — CONCLUSION

May 2018

  1. Podcast: Petard, Part 03
  2. Talking Walkaway, anarchism, social justice and revolution with The Final Straw Radio
  3. Talking the writers’ life with the Australia Broadcasting Company’s Green Room show
  4. Where to find me at Phoenix Comics Fest this week
  5. The paperback of Walkaway is out today, along with reissues of all my adult novels in matching covers!
  6. Talking education and technology with the Future Trends Forum
  7. Podcast: Petard, Part 02
  8. Talking privacy and GDPR with Thomson Reuters
  9. Donald Trump is a pathogen evolved to thrive in an attention-maximization ecosystem
  10. Announcing “Petard,” a new science fiction story reading on my podcast
  11. Boston, Chicago and Waterloo, I’m heading your way!

April 2018

  1. Raleigh-Durham, I’m headed your way! CORRECTED!
  2. Little Brother is 10 years old today: I reveal the secret of writing future-proof science fiction
  3. Interview with Monocle’s Meet the Writers
  4. Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 08: the FINAL INSTALLMENT

March 2018

  1. Talking Walkaway at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre
  2. Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 07
  3. Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 06 [FIXED]
  4. Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 05 [FIXED]
  5. Hugo nominations close tomorrow!
  6. Classroom materials for Little Brother from Mary Kraus
  7. Hey, Wellington! I’m headed your way!
  8. How to be better at being pissed off at Big Tech
  9. A key to page-numbers in the Little Brother audiobook
  10. I’m coming to the Adelaide Festival this weekend (and then to Wellington, NZ!)

February 2018

  1. Hey, Sydney! I’m coming to see you tonight (then Adelaide and Wellington!)
  2. My short story about better cities, where networks give us the freedom to schedule our lives to avoid heat-waves and traffic jams
  3. Do We Need a New Internet?
  4. The 2018 Locus Poll is open: choose your favorite science fiction of 2017!
  5. The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 04 [FIXED]
  6. Hey, Australia and New Zealand, I’m coming to visit you!
  7. Nominations for the Hugo Awards are now open
  8. The 2017 Locus List: a must-read list of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past year

January 2018

  1. Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 03
  2. I’m speaking at UCSD on Feb 9!
  3. My keynote from ConveyUX 2017: “I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave.”
  4. The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 02
  5. With repetition, most of us will become inured to all the dirty tricks of Facebook attention-manipulation
  6. Interview with the National Science Teachers Association’s Lab Out Loud podcast
  7. A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: An interview with PRI’s Innovation Hub
  8. Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 01

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December 2017

  1. Reviving my Christmas daddy-daughter podcast, with Poesy!
  2. Talking Walkaway on the Barnes and Noble podcast
  3. An 8th grader’s brilliant trailer for Walkaway
  4. Net Neutrality is only complicated because monopolists are paying to introduce doubt

November 2017

  1. Hey, Kitchener-Waterloo, I’m headed your way next Monday!
  2. How to get a signed, personalized copy of any of my books, shipped anywhere in the world!
  3. The Fight for a Free, Fair and Open Internet | Bioneers 2017
  4. How I lifehacked my way into a corner

October 2017

  1. Londoners! I’ll be speaking at Waterstones Gower Street with Ada Palmer on Nov 8
  2. Talking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast
  3. My adult novels are being reissued with covers to match Walkaway!

September 2017

  1. Boring, complex and important: the deadly mix that blew up the open web
  2. Our technology is haunted by demons controlled by transhuman life-forms
  3. Walkaway won the Dragon Award for Best Apocalyptic Novel

August 2017

  1. Party Discipline: a novella set in the world of Walkaway
  2. See you at Burning Man!
  3. Burbank! I’ll see you tonight at 7PM at the Buena Vista library
  4. Walkaway is a finalist for the Dragon Awards and is #1 on Locus’s hardcover bestseller list

July 2017

  1. A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: interview with Innovation Hub
  2. Hey, Little Rock, AR: there’s a special stage performance of Little Brother coming your way for Banned Books Week!
  3. Come see me at San Diego Comic-Con!
  4. Rudy Rucker on Walkaway
  5. San Diego! Come hear me read from Walkaway tomorrow night at Comickaze Liberty Station!
  6. I’m profiled in the new issue of Locus Magazine
  7. Talking Walkaway with Reason Magazine
  8. How to write pulp fiction that celebrates humanity’s essential goodness
  9. My presentation from ConveyUX
  10. Interview with Wired UK’s Upvote podcast

June 2017

  1. I’ll see you this weekend at Denver Comic-Con!
  2. Audio from my NYPL appearance with Edward Snowden
  3. Bruce Sterling reviews WALKAWAY
  4. Canada: Trump shows us what happens when “good” politicians demand surveillance powers
  5. Talking about contestable futures on the Imaginary Worlds podcast
  6. How to get a signed, personalized copy of Walkaway sent to your door!
  7. New Yorkers! I’ll see you tomorrow at Bookcon on the Walkaway tour (then SF, Chicago, Denver…) (!)

May 2017

  1. Bad news: tech is making us more unequal. Good news: tech can make us more equal.
  2. My guest-appearance on Hello From the Magic Tavern
  3. Talking WALKAWAY with Reason
  4. Liverpool, I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour! (then Birmingham, Hay-on-Wye, San Francisco…) (!)
  5. London! I’ll be at Pages of Hackney tonight with Olivia Sudjic! (then Liverpool, Birmingham, Hay…) (!)
  6. London! I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour! (then Liverpool, Birmingham, and Hay…) (!)
  7. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein shows us how science fiction predicts the present and shapes the future
  8. Oxford, I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour (then London, Liverpool, Birmingham…) (!)
  9. Burbank: I’m coming to you today on the Walkaway tour! (then Oxford, London, Liverpool…) (!)
  10. Talking Walkaway with Suicide Girls Radio
  11. Vancouver, I’ll see you at tonight’s Walkaway tour stop (then Burbank, Oxford, London…) (!)
  12. Talking Walkaway on the Techdirt podcast
  13. See you tonight for the Walkaway tour stop in Bellingham! (then Vancouver, Burbank, Oxford…) (!)
  14. A few tickets left for tonight’s event in Seattle! (the Bellingham, Vancouver, Burbank…) (!)
  15. See you tonight at Powell’s, Portland! (then Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver…) (!)
  16. See you this afternoon, San Diego! (then Portland, Seattle, Bellingham…) (!)
  17. See you tonight, Scottsdale, AZ! (then San Diego, Portland, Seattle…) (!)
  18. Houston, I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour! (then Scottsdale, San Diego, Portland…) (!)
  19. See you tonight in Austin! (then Houston, Scottsdale, San Diego…) (!)
  20. Wrapping up the Crooked Timber seminar on Walkaway: Coase’s Spectre
  21. See you tonight in Denver! (then Austin, Houston, Scottsdale…) (!)
  22. See you tonight in Winnipeg! (then Denver, Austin, Houston…) (!)
  23. How to support a writer’s career
  24. My column about Snowden, surveillance and WALKAWAY in the International Business Times
  25. A chat with the NEA, about WALKAWAY and sundry subjects
  26. Chicagoans! Where to find me and Max Temkin on the Walkaway tour!
  27. Weaponized narrative: the stories we tell change our theories about the world
  28. Walkaway tour! Richmond, Chapel Hill, Cincinnati, Chicago and more!
  29. Watch the livestream for tomorrow’s NYPL discussion of Walkaway with Edward Snowden
  30. See you tomorrow in DC (then NYC, Richmond, Chapel Hill, etc!)
  31. Announcing the Walkaway audiobook, with Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Amanda Palmer and more!

April 2017

  1. Extreme wealth inequality will always devour the societies that produce it
  2. Announcing the official UK Walkaway Tour!
  3. Talking Walkaway on the Author Stories podcast
  4. Come to the Chicago Walkaway event with Max Temkin, get a multitool!
  5. A Crooked Timber seminar on Walkaway
  6. A hyperlinked bibliography for Homeland
  7. The Haunted Mansion Ghost Post wins a Themed Entertainment Award!
  8. Walkaway Q&A: great debut novels, collections, and favorites
  9. Read: Chapter 3 of Walkaway, in which a university rises from the ashes
  10. I am LOVING the new livery for the South Korean edition of Little Brother and the forthcoming Homeland
  11. How optimistic disaster stories can save us from dystopia

March 2017

  1. Read: “Communist Party”: the first chapter of Walkaway
  2. Here’s the schedule for my 25-city US-Canada Walkaway tour!
  3. Fair trade ebooks: how authors could double their royalties without costing their publishers a cent
  4. Preorder my novel Walkaway and get a pocket multitool
  5. Fill Your Boots: my column on how technology could let us work like artisans and live like kings
  6. Reply All covers DRM and the W3C
  7. Coming to DC on March 6: a panel on right to repair, DRM, and property rights in the digital age

February 2017

  1. New Yorkers! Come see Edward Snowden and me onstage at the NYPL on the Walkaway tour!
  2. Now in the UK! Pre-order signed copies of the first edition hardcover of Walkaway, my first adult novel since Makers
  3. Pre-order a signed first edition of Walkaway, which got a starred review in Booklist today!

January 2017

  1. The cover of this week’s Bookseller!
  2. Clarion Workshop now accepting applications for sf writers to learn with Lynda Barry, Nalo Hopkinson, CC Finlay…and me!
  3. Why the Trump era is the perfect time to go long on freedom and short on surveillance

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December 2016

  1. Kirkus just gave me an AWESOME Christmas present: this starred review for WALKAWAY
  2. Free audiobook of Car Wars, my self-driving car/crypto back-door apocalypse story
  3. Everything is a Remix, including Star Wars, and that’s how I became a writer
  4. Mr Robot has driven a stake through the Hollywood hacker, and not a moment too soon
  5. A new edition of the Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free audiobook featuring Neil Gaiman
  6. My keynote from the O’Reilly Security Conference: “Security and feudalism: Own or be pwned”

November 2016

  1. Car Wars: a dystopian science fiction story about the nightmare of self-driving cars
  2. I’m helping launch Echoes of Sherlock Homes at LA’s Chevalier Books tomorrow night
  3. Sole and Despotic Dominion: how a 20th century copyright law is abolishing property for humans (but not corporations)

October 2016

  1. Interview with IEEE-USA Insight Podcast
  2. Talking about Allan Sherman on the Comedy on Vinyl podcast
  3. Apply for a Shuttleworth Fellowship!

September 2016

  1. Come see me in Portland, Riverside, LA, and San Francisco
  2. How free software stayed free
  3. If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it?
  4. The privacy wars have been a disaster and they’re about to get a LOT worse

August 2016

  1. See you at Burning Man!
  2. Talking about the pro-security, anti-DRM business model on the O’Reilly Radar Podcast
  3. Podcast: Live from HOPE on Radio Statler
  4. Podcast: How we’ll kill all the DRM in the world, forever
  5. My Kansas City World Science Fiction Convention schedule

July 2016

  1. EFF is suing the US government to invalidate the DMCA’s DRM provisions
  2. My interview on Utah Public Radio’s “Access Utah”
  3. As browsers decline in relevance, they’re becoming DRM timebombs
  4. Peak indifference: privacy as a public health issue

June 2016

  1. I’m profiled in the Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine
  2. How to protect the future web from its founders’ own frailty
  3. Video: Guarding the Decentralized Web from its founders’ human frailty
  4. How we will keep the Decentralized Web decentralized: my talk from the Decentralized Web Summit
  5. You are not a wallet: complaining considered helpful
  6. How security and privacy pros can help save the web from legal threats over vulnerability disclosure

May 2016

  1. Revealed: the amazing cover for Walkaway, my first adult novel since 2009
  2. O’Reilly Hardware Podcast on the risks to the open Web and the future of the Internet of Things
  3. Peace in Our Time: how publishers, libraries and writers could work together
  4. The open web’s guardians are acting like it’s already dead

March 2016

  1. 30% off O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention in Austin, May 16-19
  2. Screw optimism, we need hope instead
  3. Whuffie would be a terrible currency
  4. Apple vs FBI: The privacy disaster is inevitable, but we can prevent the catastrophe
  5. Scroogled: the day Google went evil

February 2016

  1. South Korean lawmakers stage filibuster to protest “anti-terror” bill, read from Little Brother
  2. Math denialism: crypto backdoors and DRM are the alternative medicine of computer science
  3. The Eleventh HOPE: NYC, Jul 22-24 (I’m keynoting!)
  4. I was a Jeopardy! clue

January 2016

  1. My talk at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE)
  2. We’ll probably never “Free Mickey”
  3. My University of Waterloo talk: No Matter Who’s Winning the War on General Purpose Computing, You’re Losing
  4. India’s Internet activists have a SOPA moment: no “poor Internet for poor people”
  5. Resilience over rigidity: how to solve tomorrow’s computer problems today

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December 2015

  1. Podcast: Happy Xmas! (guest starring Poesy)
  2. If you think self-driving cars have a Trolley Problem, you’re asking the wrong questions
  3. Interview on Paul Holdengraber’s “Call from Paul” podcast
  4. What I told the kid who wanted to join the NSA
  5. Free talk on surveillance, copyright and DRM tomorrow in Berlin: “PINEAPPLE!”
  6. I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave: why computer scientists should care about DRM
  7. Wide-ranging interview (surveillance, DRM, copyfight, climate, class war) in the Sydney Morning Herald

November 2015

  1. Outstanding critical review of Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free in the LA Review of Books
  2. Authors Alliance guide to Open Access
  3. I won the Comment Awards prize for Technology and Digital Commentator of the Year!
  4. Turns out that “unsubscribing” from spam actually works
  5. The Internet will always suck
  6. Scholarly article on activism and technology in my YA novels

October 2015

  1. Come see me at Santa Monica’s Diesel Books on Thursday
  2. How a mathematician teaches “Little Brother” to a first-year seminar
  3. Korean edition of Little Brother
  4. See me in Utah, Boston, Toronto and Waterloo!
  5. Data breaches are winning the privacy wars, so what should privacy advocates do?

September 2015

  1. How to save online advertising
  2. My novel “Utopia” will hit shelves in 2017
  3. NYC to-do: “Art, Design, and The Future of Privacy,” Sept 17
  4. Dear Internet of Things: human beings are not things
  5. Little Brother optioned by Paramount

August 2015

  1. Coming to Reno’s Grassroots Books this Friday!
  2. Guardian column: Ulysses pacts and spying hacks: warrant canaries and binary transparency
  3. Interview with O’Reilly Radar podcast
  4. Parenting and the Internet: the smarter, missing third way

July 2015

  1. Q&A from Clarion West benefit/reading in Seattle
  2. My upcoming events in Seattle
  3. Why we’re still talking about Terminator and the Matrix
  4. Summer reading lists!
  5. Interview with Slashdot

June 2015

  1. On Big Data’s shrinking returns
  2. The Internet of Things That Do What You Tell Them – my talk at last week’s Solid Conference
  3. Cybersecurity podcast
  4. My PDF 2015 talk: An Internet of Things That Do As They’re Told
  5. The Internet may not be the question, but it’s the answer
  6. Man Who Sold the Moon wins the Sturgeon Award!
  7. Context: the DRM-free audio edition of my essay collection
  8. New Yorkers! Come hear me speak this Saturday!

May 2015

  1. Bruce Sterling’s introduction to the Italian edition of Little Brother

April 2015

  1. Google anti-trust action is dumb, but the EU should be worried about online giants
  2. My Webstock 2015 talk: Light a candle, curse the darkness and win the war on general purpose computers to save the world

March 2015

  1. Clean Reader is a free speech issue
  2. A conversation about privacy and trust in open education
  3. Audiobook of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

February 2015

  1. Internet-fired elections and the politics of business as usual
  2. No future for you: cultural institutions can’t afford to play along with pointy-headed bosses
  3. DRM-free audiobook of Eastern Standard Tribe
  4. 2014’s best science fiction and fantasy

January 2015

  1. Overclocked is now a DRM-free audiobook
  2. How to fix copyright in two easy steps (and one hard one)
  3. Consumerist on Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
  4. My talk on the Internet of Things, wealth disparity, surveillance, evidence-based policy and the future of the world

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December 2014

  1. Interview with the RiYL podcast about personal politics and big-P politics
  2. Podcast: Happy Xmas! (guest starring Poesy)
  3. LISTEN: Wil Wheaton reads “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”
  4. Interview with Radio New Zealand’s This Way Up
  5. Interview with The Command Line podcast
  6. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: the audiobook, read by Wil Wheaton (if you were to share this, I’d consider it a personal favor!)
  7. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free Audiobook
  8. When Ed Snowden met Marcus Yallow
  9. Why should we care about characters?

November 2014

  1. Little Brother middle school English curriculum materials
  2. Wide-ranging conversation with Portland’s KBOO about Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
  3. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free interview with Baltimore morning radio
  4. Huxleyed into the Full Orwell
  5. Audio from Seattle Hieroglyph event with Neal Stepehenson
  6. Stories are a fuggly hack
  7. Amanda Palmer’s Art of Asking: art for the crowdfunding age
  8. UK launch of In Real Life at Orbital Comics, London, Nov 12
  9. London, Tue night: Biella Coleman and I talk about “Hackers and Hoaxers: Inside Anonymous”

October 2014

  1. Interview with The Geekcast
  2. I’m coming to Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, SF/Palo Alto!
  3. There’s no back door that only works for good guys

September 2014

  1. My In Real Life book-tour!
  2. Homeland wins Copper Cylinder award for best Canadian YA sf novel
  3. Privacy for Normal People
  4. Excerpt from In Real Life, YA graphic novel about gold farmers
  5. Amazon vs Hachette is nothing: just WAIT for the audiobook wars!
  6. “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”
  7. Starred review in Kirkus for INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE, my next book
  8. High-school English study guide for Homeland
  9. Excerpt from my story “The Man Who Sold the Moon”
  10. Free cybersecurity MOOC
  11. Podcast: Petard from Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows

August 2014

  1. Adversarial Compatibility: hidden escape hatch rescues us from imprisonment through our stuff
  2. Tech Review’s annual science fiction issue, edited by Bruce Sterling, featuring William Gibson
  3. Neal Stephenson and Cory speaking at Seattle’s Town Hall, Oct 26
  4. My London Worldcon schedule

July 2014

  1. Disrupting elections with Kickstarter-like campaigning apps
  2. Documentary on the making of the Homeland audiobook with Wil Wheaton
  3. Homeland wins the Prometheus award!
  4. How to save the CBC, making it a global online participatory leader
  5. OECD predicts collapse of capitalism

June 2014

  1. Coming to SLC and PDX
  2. Podcast: How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage
  3. My talk at the Edinburgh Publishing Conference
  4. How Hachette made the rope that Amazon is hanging it with
  5. My Tedxoxbridge talk: How to break the Internet
  6. Homeland shortlisted for the Sunburst Award
  7. Podcast: News from the future for Wired UK
  8. Interviewing Leila Johnstone about Hack Circus
  9. Coming to Salt Lake City and Portland, OR
  10. Audio from today’s keynote on digital publishing
  11. ZOMGTERRISTSGONNAKILLUSALL tee, now in tote form
  12. Podcast: ‘Cybersecurity’ begins with integrity, not surveillance
  13. Little Brother challenged in Florida high school
  14. Humble Ebook Bundle adds Lawful Interception audio, From Hell Companion, Too Cool To Be Forgotten
  15. Podcast: How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance

May 2014

  1. Clarion SF/F writeathon: write, sponsor writers, help a new generation
  2. Talking with APM’s Marketplace about the Disneyland prospectus
  3. Podcast (FIXED): Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart
  4. Podcast: Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart
  5. Coming to SLC
  6. Makers: the Japanese fan-trans
  7. Mozilla breaks our hearts, adds DRM to Firefox
  8. Podcast: Why it is not possible to regulate robots
  9. Against the instrumental argument for surveillance
  10. 2014 Locus Award finalists, including Homeland
  11. How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance

April 2014

  1. Podcast: Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom
  2. Gutting Net Neutrality also guts innovation, fairness and democracy
  3. Video: Bart Gellman and me opening for Ed Snowden at SXSW
  4. Homeland Audiobook
  5. My “Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now” in Vodo’s indie science fiction bundle: comics, movies, novels, and more!
  6. Homeland audiobook, read by Wil Wheaton, is back on downpour.com
  7. Why I don’t believe in robots

March 2014

  1. Podcast: Collective Action – the Magnificent Seven anti-troll business-model
  2. In which I make Wil Wheaton read out Pi for four minutes
  3. Danish Little Brother
  4. Noah Swartz reads Aaron Swartz’s afterword to Homeland
  5. Homeland shortlisted for the Prometheus Award
  6. Jake Appelbaum reads his Homeland afterword, with bonus Atari Teenage Riot vocoder mix
  7. Podcast: What happens with digital rights management in the real world?
  8. Wil Wheaton reads chapter one of Homeland
  9. Wil Wheaton’s subconscious wants to “melt some camels” (?!)
  10. Cory Doctorow: Das Urheberrecht sollte dem kreativen Schaffen aller dienen
  11. Homeland audiobook: Wil Wheaton explains how Little Brother and Homeland make you technologically literate
  12. Homeland audiobook behind the scenes: Wil Wheaton explains his cameo to the director
  13. Wil Wheaton has a surreal moment reading the Homeland audiobook
  14. New World Notes on “In Real Life,” the graphic novel based on “Anda’s Game”
  15. HOMELAND audiobook, read by Wil Wheaton, DRM-free, in the new Humble Bundle!
  16. Podcast: If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology
  17. Get a signed, inscribed copy of “In Real Life” delivered to your door, courtesy of WORD Books
  18. Security as a public health discipline, not an engineering one
  19. Snowden at SXSW: immediate impressions
  20. Podcast: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard
  21. Cold Equations and Moral Hazard: science fiction considered harmful to the future

February 2014

  1. Guest review: my daughter reviews Ariol
  2. Text of Little Brother on an art-litho, tee, or tote
  3. Text of Little Brother on an art-litho, tee, or tote
  4. Text of Little Brother on an art-litho, tee, or tote
  5. Museums and the free world: keynote from the Museums and the Web conference in Florence
  6. Why DRM is the root of all evil
  7. Podcast: What does David Cameron’s Great Firewall look like?
  8. Locus recommended reading list for best science fiction and fantasy of 2013
  9. Locus recommended reading list for best science fiction and fantasy of 2013
  10. Locus recommended reading list for best science fiction and fantasy of 2013

January 2014

  1. Podcast: Cheap writing tricks
  2. Makers review from high-school senior Rebecca Nguyen
  3. Makers review from high-school senior Rebecca Nguyen
  4. Announcing “In Real Life”: graphic novel about gold farming, kids and games
  5. Pirate Cinema and Homeland covers shortlisted for the Kitschie for best cover
  6. Pirate Cinema and Homeland covers shortlisted for the Kitschie for best cover
  7. Speaking at SXSW with Barton Gellman about Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance
  8. Podcast: Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful
  9. How to have a healthy relationship with technology
  10. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth: .mobi and .epub
  11. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth: .mobi and .epub
  12. Flowers From Al 02
  13. Why fiction works
  14. Great Firewall of Cameron: the worst of all worlds for British parents
  15. Flowers From Al 01

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December 2013

  1. Christmastime daddy-daughter podcast with Poesy
  2. Lawful Interception 04
  3. Play Little Brother Jeopardy! online
  4. Play Little Brother Jeopardy! online
  5. Lawful Interception 03
  6. Little Brother stageplay now available for local performances
  7. Coming to Edinburgh tomorrow night
  8. Peak indifference to surveillance
  9. Lawful Interception 02
  10. Lawful Interception 01

November 2013

  1. Coming to Melbourne next week for four events
  2. Little Brother in the Canada Reads Top Ten
  3. Little Brother in the Canada Reads Top Ten
  4. Fighting patent trolls and corruption with the Magnificent Seven business-model
  5. Young brothers explain Bayes’s theorem
  6. Young brothers explain Bayes’s theorem
  7. Canada Reads top-ten voting ends this weekend
  8. Canada Reads top-ten voting ends this weekend
  9. Canada Reads top-ten voting ends this weekend

October 2013

  1. Canada Reads Top 40 books — including Little Brother!
  2. Canada Reads Top 40 books — including Little Brother!
  3. PRI’s Studio 360 on Disney parks
  4. Comic about Doctorow/Doctor Who from a ten-year-old artist
  5. Talking Little Brother on KQED’s The Forum

September 2013

  1. Coming to San Francisco next week for SFPL’s One City/One Book events
  2. Coming to San Francisco next week for SFPL’s One City/One Book events
  3. Coming to San Francisco next week for SFPL’s One City/One Book events
  4. How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man’s switch (podcast)
  5. Homeland UK edition launch this Wednesday at London’s Forbidden Planet Superstore
  6. Homeland UK edition launch this Wednesday at London’s Forbidden Planet Superstore
  7. Homeland UK edition launch this Wednesday at London’s Forbidden Planet Superstore
  8. Interview with South Africa’s Tech Central
  9. Little Brother bus-ads in San Francisco
  10. Little Brother bus-ads in San Francisco
  11. Little Brother bus-ads in San Francisco
  12. Fighting back against NSA sabotage with a dead-man’s switch
  13. I have cancelled my appearance at Campus Party London tonight
  14. How publishers should learn to stop worrying and love library ebook lending

August 2013

  1. Why it matters that you can’t own an electronic copy of the Oxford English Dictionary
  2. Interview with Circulating Ideas library podcast
  3. Why Helsinki should host the WorldCon
  4. Talking about the writing life
  5. Little Brother inspired Google to encrypt its users’ traffic
  6. Little Brother inspired Google to encrypt its users’ traffic
  7. Podcast of “Metadata – a wartime drama”
  8. Why writers should stand up for libraries
  9. Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves
  10. My talk at Finland’s Assembly
  11. My workflow in the WSJ

July 2013

  1. Little Brother-themed team scavenger hunt coming to San Francisco!
  2. Little Brother-themed team scavenger hunt coming to San Francisco!
  3. Little Brother-themed team scavenger hunt coming to San Francisco!
  4. There’s no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks
  5. Appearing at the BSFA meeting tonight
  6. Pirate Cinema wins the Prometheus Award
  7. Pirate Cinema wins the Prometheus Award
  8. Pirate Cinema shortlisted for Canada’s Sunburst Award
  9. Pirate Cinema shortlisted for Canada’s Sunburst Award
  10. Speaking in San Diego on Tuesday; Comic-Con on Thu and Fri
  11. Lunch with the Financial Times
  12. Interview on hacktivism and Aaron Swartz
  13. I’m in a Reddit AMA NOW!
  14. Humble Ebook Bundle reveals second week bonus books: XKCD, Gaiman/McKean, Holly Black & Machine of Death!
  15. Kids, science fiction, technology, democracy and surveillance
  16. Kids, science fiction, technology, democracy and surveillance
  17. Interview about kids, hacking and democracy with NPR’s Here and Now
  18. Interview about kids, hacking and democracy with NPR’s Here and Now
  19. Video from my Maker Faire Meetup keynote
  20. Appearances: Reddit AMA, San Diego Comic-Con, and Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego
  21. The NSA’s Prism: why we should care
  22. Metadata – a wartime drama
  23. Explaining metadata collection with Alan Turing, Theresa May and Winston Churchill
  24. Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves
  25. Teaching computers teaches us how little we understand about ourselves
  26. Humble Ebook Bundle II: name your price for Last Unicorn, Wil Wheaton, Lois McMaster Bujold, Little Brother, Boneshaker, and Spin!
  27. Humble Ebook Bundle II: name your price for Last Unicorn, Wil Wheaton, Lois McMaster Bujold, Little Brother, Boneshaker, and Spin!

June 2013

  1. Games, at some length
  2. Games, at some length
  3. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom illo
  4. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom illo
  5. Technology and Activism: where does the Internet fit?
  6. The NSA’s Prism: why we should care
  7. Why you should care about surveillance
  8. Guardian podcast on publishing with Jonny Geller and Henry Volans
  9. UK Pirate Cinema is out!
  10. UK Pirate Cinema is out!
  11. By His Things Shall You Know Him (podcast)
  12. By His Things Shall You Know Him
  13. Interview withe PRI’s The World about Orwell, Huxley and the NSA
  14. Class remixes of Little Brother from Cathedral Prep in Queens, NY
  15. Class remixes of Little Brother from Cathedral Prep in Queens, NY
  16. Little Brother is the One School/One Book choice for Chariho High in Rhode Island
  17. Little Brother is the One School/One Book choice for Chariho High in Rhode Island
  18. Clarion Write-a-Thon: sponsoring writers to raise money for the Clarion science fiction and fantasy workshop
  19. Data protection in the EU: the certainty of uncertainty
  20. Anonymizing is really hard really, so why is the EU acting like it’s easy?
  21. Little Brother is San Francisco’s One City/One Book pick for 2013
  22. Little Brother is San Francisco’s One City/One Book pick for 2013

May 2013

  1. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 09
  2. Interview with The Pod Delusion
  3. Interview on the New Disruptors podcast
  4. Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance
  5. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 08
  6. Sense About Science lecture
  7. How to make cyberspace safe for human habitation
  8. Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation
  9. Hacking Politics: name-your-price ebook on the history of the SOPA fight
  10. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 07
  11. 3D printed guns are going to create big legal precedents
  12. 3D printed guns and the law: will judges be able to think clearly about digital files when guns are involved?
  13. Rapture of the Nerds is a Campbell Award finalist
  14. Rapture of the Nerds is a Campbell Award finalist
  15. My Berlin talk: “It’s not a fax machine connect to a waffle iron”
  16. Pirate Cinema on the Locus Award ballot!
  17. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 06
  18. Tim Wu and I talk networks, policy and the future
  19. Improving Book Publicity in the 21st Century
  20. Easy win for publishing: network and systematize PR and marketing

April 2013

  1. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 05
  2. Trademarks: the good, the bad and the ugly
  3. When trademark becomes a tool for stealing our language
  4. Pirate Cinema up for Canada’s Aurora Award
  5. Pirate Cinema up for Canada’s Aurora Award
  6. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 03
  7. Tangible assets
  8. Publishing should fight ebook retailers for more data
  9. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 04
  10. Fox sends fraudulent takedown notices for my novel Homeland
  11. Fox sends fraudulent takedown notices for my novel Homeland
  12. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02 – fixed
  13. Pirate Cinema nominated for the Prometheus Award
  14. Pirate Cinema nominated for the Prometheus Award
  15. Locus Poll is open – tell them about your favorite sf/f of 2012
  16. Locus Poll is open – tell them about your favorite sf/f of 2012
  17. Locus Poll is open – tell them about your favorite sf/f of 2012
  18. My HOW I WORK interview

March 2013

  1. Interview on NPR’s Off-Topic
  2. Speaking in Bradford tomorrow
  3. How the amazing UK cover for Rapture of the Nerds came to be
  4. How the amazing UK cover for Rapture of the Nerds came to be
  5. Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet
  6. What problem are we trying to solve in the copyright wars?
  7. Schedule for EasterCon in Bradford
  8. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02
  9. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02
  10. Launching the UK edition of Rapture of the Nerds TODAY at Forbidden Planet London
  11. Letter from a young reader about Little Brother
  12. Letter from a young reader about Little Brother
  13. Letter from a young reader about Little Brother
  14. Signing Rapture of the Nerds at Forbidden Planet London tomorrow
  15. Signing Rapture of the Nerds at Forbidden Planet London tomorrow
  16. WH Smith automatically adding DRM to DRM-free ebooks, but there’s an interim solution while they fix it
  17. WH Smith automatically adding DRM to DRM-free ebooks, but there’s an interim solution while they fix it
  18. Chatting with Techdirt about Pirate Cinema
  19. Chatting with Techdirt about Pirate Cinema
  20. My talk on copyright, ebooks and libraries for the Library of Congress
  21. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01
  22. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01
  23. I’m at Forbidden Planet London with Rapture of the Nerds this Saturday!
  24. I’m at Forbidden Planet London with Rapture of the Nerds this Saturday!
  25. Audio from my Homeland tour presentation
  26. Audio from my Homeland tour presentation
  27. Legal issues in Pirate Cinema analyzed by IP lawyer
  28. Legal issues in Pirate Cinema analyzed by IP lawyer
  29. Profile in Guardian Books
  30. Why Tim Berners-Lee is wrong about DRM in HTML5
  31. What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM
  32. Ten Years On
  33. Rapture of the Nerds hits London on Mar 23
  34. Rapture of the Nerds hits London on Mar 23
  35. Homeland interviews
  36. Homeland interviews
  37. Podcast with Beyond the Book
  38. Podcast with Beyond the Book
  39. What’s the most utopian fiction of all?
  40. Coming to Toronto tonight!
  41. Coming to Toronto tonight!

February 2013

  1. My books on a Tor hidden service
  2. My books on a Tor hidden service
  3. Coming to Lawrence, KS tonight!
  4. Coming to Lawrence, KS tonight!
  5. Coming to Albuquerque today!
  6. Cory coming to Albuquerque today!
  7. Coming to Cambridge, Mass tonight!
  8. Coming to Cambridge, Mass tonight!
  9. Video from Concord, NH appearance
  10. Video from Concord, NH appearance
  11. Video from Tools of Change
  12. Video from Tools of Change
  13. Libraries and Makerspaces: a match made in heaven
  14. Libraries, Hackspaces and E-waste: how libraries can be the hub of a young maker revolution
  15. Coming to Washington, DC tonight!
  16. Coming to Washington, DC tonight!
  17. Coming to Concord, NH today!
  18. Coming to Concord, NH today!
  19. Coming to Portsmouth, NH tonight
  20. Coming to Portsmouth, NH tonight
  21. Homeland
  22. Pirate Cinema
  23. Coming to Austin tonight!
  24. Coming to Austin tonight!
  25. Coming to Austin tonight!
  26. Video from the Seattle stop on the Homeland tour
  27. Video from the Seattle stop on the Homeland tour
  28. Coming to Houston today!
  29. Coming to Houston today!
  30. Coming to Houston today!
  31. Homeland wsj
  32. WSJ on Homeland
  33. WSJ on Homeland
  34. WSJ on Homeland
  35. Coming to New Orleans today!
  36. Coming to New Orleans today!
  37. Coming to New Orleans today!
  38. I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave: when we design computers to boss us around
  39. I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave
  40. I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave: when we design computers to boss us around
  41. Free CC-licensed ebook of Homeland is live!
  42. Free CC-licensed ebook of Homeland is live!
  43. Coming to Memphis tonight!
  44. Coming to Memphis tonight!
  45. Coming to Memphis tonight!
  46. Coming to Oxford, MS this afternoon
  47. Coming to Oxford, MS this afternoon
  48. Video from yesterday’s event at Flyleaf books in Chapel Hill, NC
  49. Video from yesterday’s event at Flyleaf books in Chapel Hill, NC
  50. Video from yesterday’s event at Flyleaf books in Chapel Hill, NC
  51. Coming to Decatur today!
  52. Coming to Decatur today!
  53. I’ll be Chapel Hill today at 2PM
  54. Video from my book tour: Cincinnati presentation
  55. Video from my book tour: Cincinnati presentation
  56. I’ll be Chapel Hill today at 2PM
  57. Coming to Miami tonight!
  58. Coming to Miami tonight!
  59. EFF-Austin benefit after My Book People event on Feb 22
  60. EFF-Austin benefit after My Book People event on Feb 22
  61. EFF-Austin benefit after My Book People event on Feb 22
  62. Coming to Cincinnati today!
  63. Coming to Cincinnati today!
  64. Homeland just made the New York Times bestseller list!
  65. Homeland just made the New York Times bestseller list!
  66. Homeland just made the New York Times bestseller list!
  67. Coming to Cincinnati tomorrow!
  68. Deseret News
  69. Scott Sigler’s new MONSTROSITY show, plus a tour of my office
  70. Scott Sigler’s new MONSTROSITY show, plus a tour of my office
  71. Scott Sigler’s new MONSTROSITY show, plus a tour of my office
  72. Photos from Booksmith stop
  73. Photos from Booksmith stop
  74. Photos from Booksmith stop
  75. Video from activism panel at ASU
  76. Video from activism panel at ASU
  77. Video from activism panel at ASU
  78. Speaking at ASU Phoenix this morning
  79. Speaking at ASU Phoenix this morning
  80. Interview with Rick Kleffel about Homeland
  81. Interview with Rick Kleffel about Homeland
  82. Interview with Rick Kleffel about Homeland
  83. Letter from a young Homeland reader
  84. Letter from a young Homeland reader
  85. Letter from a young Homeland reader
  86. Coming to Tempe, AZ today on the Homeland tour!
  87. Coming to Tempe, AZ today on the Homeland tour!
  88. Instructables based on Little Brother and Homeland
  89. Instructables based on Little Brother and Homeland
  90. Instructables based on Little Brother and Homeland
  91. Coming to Salt Lake City today
  92. Coming to Salt Lake City today
  93. Mesh wireless inspired by Little Brother
  94. Mesh wireless inspired by Little Brother
  95. Last night in San Francisco
  96. Last night in San Francisco!
  97. I’ll be in San Francisco tonight and tomorrow
  98. I’ll be in San Francisco tonight and tomorrow
  99. Coming to Portland today, San Francisco tomorrow!
  100. Coming to Portland today, San Francisco tomorrow!
  101. Seattle TONIGHT!
  102. Seattle tonight!
  103. Coming to Seattle (then PDX, then SFO) for the Homeland tour
  104. Coming to Seattle (then PDX, then SFO) for the Homeland tour
  105. Coming to Seattle (then PDX, then SFO) for the Homeland tour
  106. Interview with The Oregonian about Homeland
  107. Interview with The Oregonian about Homeland
  108. Interview with The Oregonian about Homeland
  109. Washington Post
  110. Law and Little Brother
  111. Law and Little Brother
  112. Pirate Cinema and Rapture of the Nerds make Locus’s best of 2012
  113. Pirate Cinema and Rapture of the Nerds make Locus’s best of 2012
  114. Pirate Cinema and Rapture of the Nerds make Locus’s best of 2012

January 2013

  1. Tor.com
  2. Internet copyright law has to have public support if it’s going to work
  3. Copyright, plagiarism and the Internet
  4. Publishers Weekly
  5. Homeland sample review one
  6. I’m coming to YOUR town* in February!
  7. Reading from Homeland
  8. Teachers, librarians, etc: sign up for free copies of Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  9. Suicide Girls interview about Homeland, part two
  10. Interview with Suicide Girls about Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  11. I’m coming to YOUR town* in February!
  12. I’m coming to YOUR town* in February!
  13. Reading from Homeland
  14. Reading from Homeland
  15. Little Brother up for The Atlantic’s Feb book-club choice
  16. Little Brother up for The Atlantic’s Feb book-club choice
  17. Teachers, librarians, etc: sign up for free copies of Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  18. Teachers, librarians, etc: sign up for free copies of Homeland , the sequel to Little Brother
  19. Rapture of the Nerds, the UK cover
  20. Rapture of the Nerds, the UK cover
  21. Suicide Girls interview about Homeland , part two
  22. Suicide Girls interview about Homeland, part two
  23. RIP, Aaron Swartz
  24. Behold: the stupid face I will make in the 3D scanner
  25. Which silly John Scalzi face should I model in the 3D scanner?
  26. Liability vs Leverage
  27. How Internet copyright laws let Big Content get away with paying less to artists
  28. Interview with Suicide Girls about Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  29. Interview with Suicide Girls about Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  30. Nominations are open for the Hugo Awards
  31. Nominations are open for the Hugo Awards
  32. Nominations are open for the Hugo Awards
  33. Positive Externalities
  34. Positive externalities thrive online
  35. Hacker theatre troupe in Berlin to stage “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”
  36. Hacker theatre troupe in Berlin to stage “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”
  37. Looking for a pilot in the southwest
  38. Where Characters Come From
  39. Where characters come from, and where they go
  40. Pirate Cinema nominated for the Prometheus Award
  41. Pirate Cinema nominated for the Prometheus Award
  42. Interview in Prism Magazine
  43. Interview in Prism Magazine
  44. Interview in Prism Magazine

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December 2012

  1. What’s entropy?
  2. Little Brother on stage in print!
  3. Little Brother on stage in print!
  4. Happy hols!
  5. Why the entertainment industry’s release strategy creates piracy
  6. Why entertainment industry release windows drive piracy that we all have to pay for
  7. Announcing the 20-city US tour for HOMELAND, the sequel to Little Brother
  8. Announcing the 20-city US tour for HOMELAND, the sequel to Little Brother
  9. Rave review for Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  10. Rave review for Homeland , the sequel to Little Brother
  11. The Internet of the Dead
  12. Nerds of a Feather
  13. Here’s what ICT should really teach kids: how to do regular expressions
  14. Computer classes should teach regular expressions to kids

November 2012

  1. Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access
  2. Internet of the Dead: the net’s collision course with death
  3. Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access
  4. Beyond the public debt: making a wider case for openness
  5. Pc sfgate
  6. Secure the Internet podcast
  7. Video from Pirate Cinema talk in Deerfield, IL
  8. Cinema Pirata: Brazilian edition of Pirate Cinema
  9. Cinema Pirata: Brazilian edition of Pirate Cinema
  10. Secure the Internet
  11. What do we do about untrustworthy Certificate Authorities?
  12. Speaking in London on Nov 24 about the Snooper’s Charter
  13. Interview on IT and corporate IT policy
  14. Copyright debate in Denmark
  15. Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
  16. Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
  17. Digital Human podcast on death
  18. There’s no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks
  19. Why the UK’s mandatory opt-out censorware plan is stupid
  20. Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell

October 2012

  1. Coming to Boston today for finale of the Pirate Cinema tour
  2. Coming to Boston today for finale of the Pirate Cinema tour
  3. In Toronto today, Boston tomorrow
  4. In Toronto today, Boston tomorrow
  5. Talking in Toronto today, tomorrow (then Boston!)
  6. Talking in Toronto today, tomorrow (then Boston!)
  7. Coming to Toronto, Boston
  8. Coming to Toronto, Boston
  9. Coming to Seattle today, then Toronto and Boston
  10. Coming to Seattle today, then Toronto and Boston
  11. Coming to Vancouver and Victoria today, then Seattle, Toronto and Boston
  12. Coming to Vancouver and Victoria today, then Seattle, Toronto and Boston
  13. Coming to Kidsbooks, Vancouver tonight
  14. Coming to Kidsbooks, Vancouver tonight
  15. Seattle Times
  16. Humble Ebook Bundle breaks the $1,000,000 barrier
  17. Humble Ebook Bundle breaks the $1,000,000 barrier
  18. Pirate Cinema presentation at Brooklyn’s WORD
  19. Pirate Cinema presentation at Brooklyn’s WORD
  20. I’ll be at the Vancouver Writers Festival today with William Gibson
  21. I’ll be at the Vancouver Writers Festival today with William Gibson
  22. Coming to Vancouver this weekend
  23. Coming to Vancouver this weekend
  24. Coming to Edmonton tomorrow morning
  25. Coming to Edmonton tomorrow morning
  26. A Japanese animation pirate cinema maker’s story
  27. A Japanese animation pirate cinema maker’s story
  28. Universal Computer Users
  29. Coming to Bethesda tonight
  30. Coming to Bethesda tonight
  31. Interview on the Command Line podcast
  32. Interview on the Command Line podcast
  33. Five more books join the Humble Ebook Bundle!
  34. Five more books join the Humble Ebook Bundle!
  35. My head, made of sugar
  36. My head, made of sugar
  37. Coming to Philly tonight
  38. Coming to Philly tonight
  39. This Week in Tech
  40. This Week in Tech
  41. This Week in Tech
  42. Interview with CBC’s CanadaWrites
  43. Interview with CBC’s CanadaWrites
  44. Coming to Brooklyn tonight
  45. Coming to Brooklyn tonight
  46. Interview with Dan Patterson
  47. Interview with Dan Patterson
  48. Coming to NY Comic-Con today
  49. Coming to NY Comic-Con today
  50. Daytona Beach News-Journal
  51. Pirate Cinema in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus
  52. Pirate Cinema in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus
  53. Coming to NY Comic-Con today!
  54. Coming to NY Comic-Con today!
  55. Doing a Reddit AMA today at 1PM Pacific
  56. Doing a Reddit AMA today at 1PM Pacific
  57. San Antonio students and parents upset at mandatory radio-tracking snitch-tags
  58. Coming to Evanston, IL tonight!
  59. Coming to Evanston, IL tonight!
  60. Coming to Naperville, IL tonight
  61. Coming to Naperville, IL tonight
  62. Giving online customers the chance to pay what they want works
  63. Price discrimination without coercion: the Humble Ebook Bundle
  64. Humble Ebook Bundle: Name your price for eight bestselling, ass-kicking sf novels
  65. Pirate Cinema, for your downloading pleasure
  66. Humble Ebook Bundle: Name your price for eight bestselling, ass-kicking sf novels
  67. Humble Ebook Bundle: Name your price for seven bestselling, ass-kicking sf novels
  68. Coming to Deerfield, IL tonight
  69. Coming to Lansing, MI today
  70. Coming to Redondo Beach today
  71. Coming to Pasadena this afternoon!
  72. Pirate Flix: Video remix contest
  73. Coming to Berkeley tonight
  74. Pirate Cinema audiobook: no DRM, no EULA, just the spoken word
  75. Appearance in San Francisco tonight!
  76. Download the Little Brother audiobook
  77. Download the Little Brother audiobook
  78. Pirate Cinema Audiobook
  79. Little Brother Audiobook
  80. Coming to Menlo Park tonight
  81. Tor.com
  82. Appearing in St Louis tonight
  83. Publishers Weekly
  84. BN Review
  85. Booklist
  86. Pc kirkus
  87. Pirate Cinema US/Canada tour
  88. Coming to St Louis and 17 other cities for the Pirate Cinema tour

September 2012

  1. Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell
  2. UK banks use robo-callers to make fraud-check calls, conditioning customers to hand out personal information to anonymous machines that phone them up out of the blue
  3. Librarians, teachers: sign up to get free copies of my forthcoming YA novel Pirate Cinema
  4. The Speculator
  5. Speaking at Oakville Public Library (and other Toronto stops) this week
  6. Rapture of the Nerds, with Charles Stross
  7. Why Philip Roth needs a secondary source
  8. Why Philip Roth had to explain himself in the New Yorker before his Wikipedia entry could be corrected
  9. Reason Magazine
  10. Chat with Charlie Stross and me on the WELL and Tor.com
  11. Free, Creative Commons licensed downloads of Rapture of the Nerds
  12. Librarians! Teachers! Sign up for free copies of Rapture of the Nerds !
  13. Quill and Quire
  14. Interview with the Singularity Weblog
  15. Video from the Stross and Doctorow show at MakerBot in Brooklyn
  16. Audio from chat with Charlie Stross on Internet Evolution
  17. Rapture of the Nerds excerpt on Tor.com
  18. Excerpt from Rapture of the Nerds, Charlie Stross’s and my comic novel of the Singularity
  19. Interview with the Singularity Weblog
  20. Booklist
  21. Publishers Weekly
  22. Video from the Stross and Doctorow show at MakerBot in Brooklyn
  23. Why Science Fiction Movies Drive Me Nuts
  24. Why SF movies make me insane

August 2012

  1. Coming War Over General Purpose Computers talk at Google
  2. The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computers
  3. XKCD with a very boingy punchline
  4. Doubling Down on DRM
  5. Doubling Down on DRM
  6. Hachette to Tor authors: you must keep the DRM on your ebooks
  7. Audio from chat with Charlie Stross on Internet Evolution
  8. Stross and Doctorow text-and-voice chat today at 11AM Eastern
  9. Audio from “The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computation” at Long Now
  10. Kids and Mozilla hack my novel Little Brother
  11. Kids and Mozilla hack my novel Little Brother

July 2012

  1. Stross and Doctorow on the road: the Rapture of the Nerds tour in Lexington, Brooklyn, Brookline, Rochester
  2. Excerpt from my forthcoming novel Pirate Cinema
  3. Rapture of the Nerds excerpt on Tor.com
  4. Sequel to my “General Purpose Computation” talk coming up in Vegas, San Francisco
  5. Excerpt from Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  6. Excerpt from Homeland , the sequel to Little Brother
  7. Music: The Internet’s Original Sin
  8. Guest of honor at Westercon 67 in Salt Lake City, July 2014
  9. Music: The Internet’s Original Sin
  10. Why we still fight about music and copyright on the Internet

June 2012

  1. Final episode of Search Engine podcast
  2. Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist
  3. Interviews with Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson about futurism, society, technology and science fiction
  4. Makers remixed in C#
  5. Makers remixed in C#
  6. Printcrime in German
  7. Disorganised but effective: how technology lowers transaction costs
  8. Effective and disorganized: a new thing upon this earth
  9. Cover for Homeland , the sequel to Little Brother
  10. Cover for Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother
  11. Excerpt from Rapture of the Nerds , Charlie Stross’s and my comic novel of the Singularity
  12. Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist
  13. Google search results are editorial, not (merely) mathematical
  14. The Curious Case of Internet Privacy
  15. Students assigned to cheat on exam use doctored Little Brother cover and many other methods
  16. Students assigned to cheat on exam use doctored Little Brother cover and many other methods
  17. On receiving an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University
  18. The Curious Case of Internet Privacy
  19. Internet privacy: a hard bargain
  20. Remixable Grade 10 course materials for Little Brother
  21. Remixable Grade 10 course materials for Little Brother
  22. Publishing’s Virtue
  23. Publishing’s hidden virtues

May 2012

  1. The problem with nerd politics
  2. Advance praise for Pirate Cinema
  3. The problem with nerd politics
  4. Nerd fatalism, nerd determinism: the problem with nerd politics
  5. Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers
  6. Bull Spec
  7. Bull Spec
  8. Seattle library hides 1,000 books around town for young people to find
  9. Seattle library hides 1,000 books around town for young people to find
  10. Geekdad on Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
  11. GeekDad
  12. Geekdad on Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
  13. A Prose By Any Other Name
  14. Makers, the Master’s thesis
  15. Makers, the Master’s thesis
  16. What I’ve learned by writing stories with the same titles as famous books
  17. Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers
  18. What dropping DRM across the industry would do for publishing
  19. Big in Japan!
  20. Big in Japan!

April 2012

  1. Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?
  2. Fair-trade goldfarming project inspired by For the Win
  3. Fair-trade goldfarming project inspired by For the Win
  4. My privacy talk at Google’s DatenDialog in Berlin
  5. War on General Purpose Computing talk at U Westminster Law School/Guardian
  6. Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?
  7. Why a pro-SOPA MPAA technologist changed sides and went to work for ISOC
  8. My keynote to the Pirate Party General Assembly in Prague
  9. Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords
  10. ACBF, an open/free digital comics format
  11. Gbbt sfrevu
  12. Advice to writers
  13. A Whip to Beat Us With
  14. A Whip to Beat Us With
  15. How DRM weakens publishers’ negotiating leverage with retailers

March 2012

  1. Financial Report, March 28, 2012
  2. Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords
  3. Facebook passwords: many employers can snoop them, and don’t need to ask
  4. Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us
  5. Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us
  6. Copyright is alive and well on the Internet
  7. Makers fan-video
  8. Makers fan-video
  9. Censorship is inseparable from surveillance
  10. Copyfight in five minutes, with doodles
  11. What’s Inside the Box?
  12. What’s Inside the Box?
  13. Who should know what’s happening in your computer? Who should control it?
  14. Censorship is inseparable from surveillance
  15. Censorship is surveillance, and privacy is a public health problem

February 2012

  1. Midwest Book Review
  2. San Francisco Book Review
  3. Interview with WNIJ Chicago
  4. Interview with Suicide Girls
  5. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  6. Digital Lysenkoism

January 2012

  1. DRM is to publishing as science was to Stalinism
  2. With A Little Help: Digital Lysenkoism
  3. Little Brother play, extended
  4. Little Brother play, extended
  5. Edited Spark interview about the “coming war on general purpose computation”
  6. Interview with CBC’s Spark on the coming war on general-purpose computation
  7. Little Brother stage-play in San Francisco
  8. Little Brother stage-play in San Francisco
  9. Martian Chronicles, part two
  10. Podcast: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future
  11. “Martian Chronicles” reading
  12. The Coming War on General Purpose Computation
  13. The internet is the best place for dissent to start
  14. Can we get cat-sharing sites to harden themselves against Iran’s secret police?
  15. Hugo nominations ballot is open
  16. A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future
  17. Science fiction sucks at prediction, and that’s OK

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