Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorowis a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth17 July 1971
CityToronto, Canada
helping remember computer
For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
home sky giants
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
advice benefits toilets
Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
careers picks
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
security-systems important failing
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
hard-work race age
It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.
running book character
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.
hands digital distribution
Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks
robots world isaac
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
stuff peers exciting
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
writing fiction stories
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
guy hard
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
ideas today copies
There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.
mitzvah three bars
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.