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Why it matters that you can’t own an electronic copy of the Oxford English Dictionary 23 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
In my latest Guardian column, I talk about the digital versions of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, the two most important lexicographic ref...
Interview with Circulating Ideas library podcast 20 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
I did an interview with the Circulating Ideas library podcast (MP3) at the American Library Association conference this year. We talked about information politics, DRM and libraries, my own history wi...
Why Helsinki should host the WorldCon 17 Aug 2013 | 12:43 pm
Here's a video of me explaining why the Helsinki bid committee should be awarded the next World Science Fiction Convention -- it's a grab-bag of all the things I love about Finland. (Thanks, Eemeli)
Talking about the writing life 16 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
I did an interview with ShelfAwareness that came out well, I think (I wrote this a long while ago and it's just coming out now, so I have the necessary distance to say that). I particularly like my an...
Little Brother inspired Google to encrypt its users’ traffic 16 Aug 2013 | 11:31 am
On yesterday's "This Week in Google," a Google engineer called Matt Cutts revealed that the company started encrypting its queries in 2008 after reading my novel Little Brother, in which one of the pl...
Podcast of “Metadata – a wartime drama” 12 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
In the currently installment of my podcast, I read aloud a recent Guardian column, "Metadata – a wartime drama, which imagines a dialog between Alan Turing and Winston Churchill that might have taken ...
Why writers should stand up for libraries 6 Aug 2013 | 10:40 am
Earlier this summer, I worked with the American Library Association on their Authors for Library Ebooks project -- which is asking authors to call on their publishers to offer ebooks to libraries at a...
Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves 5 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
In this week's podcast, I read aloud my latest Locus Magazine column, "Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves": http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2013/07/cory-doctoro...
My talk at Finland’s Assembly 4 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
I went to Finland on Friday to give a talk at Assembly, the amazing games/demoscene/technology conference held annually in Helsinki. The organizers have already got the video online! The world is mad...
My workflow in the WSJ 3 Aug 2013 | 11:47 am
I'm profiled in today's Wall Street Journal, where they asked me about the tools I use to be productive, safe and happy on the road and at home. Airport Wi-Fi is costly, slow and often heavily censor...
