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Plutopia News NetworkCory Doctorow: EnshittificationIn this excerpt from the Plutopia News Network, Cory Doctorow discusses his book Enshittification and the broader forces behind why digital platforms (and other industries) have “suddenly gotten worse.” He explains the term’s now-famous three-stage cycle: platforms lure users with quality, pivot to serving business customers at users’ expense, then squeeze both sides for maximum profit. Cory argues that this isn’t just greed, but the result of an “enshittogenic” policy environment shaped by weakened antitrust, captured regulators, and diminished worker power.
Cory Doctorow:
All of these policies that are antithetical to the interests of billionaire...
2025-12-301h 05
Trust RevolutionS02E13 Cory Doctorow – Why Every Platform Betrays You“The smallest government you can have is determined by the largest corporation you're willing to tolerate.” Cory Doctorow didn't just coin “enshittification”—he mapped the precise mechanics of how every platform you depend on will eventually turn against you, and why voting with your wallet won't save you.
Episode Summary
Cory Doctorow breaks down the three-stage process by which platforms lure users in, lock them down, and extract maximum value until the whole thing collapses. Using Facebook as the prototype, he traces how lock-in happens automatically through what economists call the collective action problem—your friends hold...
2025-11-261h 14
The Intersect with Cory CorrineThe age of ensh*ttification with Cory DoctorowCory Doctorow, author, journalist, and activist, believes that the internet — once a space of promise and connection — has been systematically degraded by corporate greed. In his new book “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It,” he details how the platforms we depend on have become more expensive and more exploitative.In our conversation, Cory Doctorow shares how this process unfolds, first platforms serve users, then they exploit businesses to make money, and finally they squeeze both to please shareholders. Together, we explore how this pattern has reshaped everything from social media and streamin...
2025-11-0624 min
The Skeptical Leftist PodcastWhy the Internet Just Keeps Getting Worse with Cory DoctorowCory Doctorow joins me to talk about Enshitification, his new book about the long decline of the internet. We go through how platforms start out good for users, turn on them once they’re locked in, and finally become unrecognizable corporate machines. Cory explains how this pattern connects to monopoly power, labor exploitation, and government capture, and why it’s not just a tech problem but a political one.Cory Doctorow’s links:https://craphound.com/https://craphound.com/shop/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/https://x.com/doctorow My links...
2025-10-071h 02
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comNimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION
This week on my podcast, I conclude my reading of my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” (here’s the first half). The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well as into Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, and Italian. The story was adapted for my IDW comic book series Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by Ben Templesmith. I read this into my podcast 20 years ago, but I found myself wanting...
2025-04-1400 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comNimby and the D-Hoppers
This week on my podcast, I once again read my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well as into Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, and Italian. The story was adapted for my IDW comic book series Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by Ben Templesmith. I read this into my podcast 20 years ago, but I found myself wanting to revisit it.
Don’t...
2025-04-0600 min
Grey Matter with Michael KrasnyCory Doctorow - The Intersection of Storytelling and TechnologyMichael Krasny interviewed best-selling author Cory Doctorow (with over 150 million book sales globally), initially exploring his personal and national backgrounds. They discussed why Doctorow sees himself as more closely tied to science fiction as a genre, despite the range of his writings. They delved into how he became so knowledgeable about technology and why he dropped out of four different colleges. The interview also touched on his surname and the likely lack of blood kinship to acclaimed American author E.L. Doctorow. They explored the source of his prolific drive and the challenges he faces managing physical pain. Krasny asked...
2024-12-111h 05
UpstreamThe Big Tech Con w/ Cory DoctorowEver wonder why it feels like almost every single tech product you use is actively trying to screw you? Why it is that your printer requires you to subscribe to ink cartridges that, ounce for ounce, cost more than gold? Why you can't read websites anymore because of all the moving, deceptive advertisements clogging up the screen? Why you're paying substantially more for an entire suite of buggy streaming services than your parents ever were for cable TV? Why your BlueTooth enabled electric toothbrush keeps breaking? Why airplanes are falling apart mid-flight? Well, it might not seem...
2024-05-211h 11Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comPrecaratize Bosses
Today for my podcast, I read Precaratize Bosses, a recent essay from my Pluralistic.net newsletter.
I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me this Thursday (May 2) in Winnipeg with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, then in Calgary with Wordfest on May 3, then in Vancouver at Massy Arts om May 4, then in Tartu, Estonia for a series of events with the Prima Vista Literary Festival (May 6-11), and beyond! The canonical link for the schedule is here....
2024-04-2800 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comCapitalists Hate Capitalism
Today for my podcast, I read Capitalists Hate Capitalism, my latest column from Locus Magazine. It’s a meditation on the difference between feudalism and capitalism, and how to know which one you’re living under.
I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me this Wednesday (Apr 17) in Chicago at Anderson’s Books, then in Torino for the Biennale keynote on Apr 21, then in Marin County at Book Passage Corte Madera on Apr 27, then in Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and beyo...
2024-04-1500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSubprime gadgets
Today for my podcast, I read Subprime gadgets, originally published in my Pluralistic blog:
I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me on April 11 in Boston with Randall Munroe, on April 12th in Providence, Rhode Island, then onto Chicago, Torino, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver and beyond! The canonical link for the schedule is here.
The promise of feudal security: “Surrender control over your digital life so that we, the wise, giant corporation, can ensure that you...
2024-04-0100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comThe Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship
Today for my podcast, I read The majority of censorship is self-censorship, originally published in my Pluralistic blog. It’s a breakdown of Ada Palmer’s excellent Reactor essay about the modern and historical context of censorship.
I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle. Catch me tomorrow (Monday) in Seattle with Neal Stephenson at Third Place Books. Then it’s Powell’s in Portland, and then Tuscon. The canonical link for the schedule is here.
States –...
2024-02-2500 min
The Science in The FictionCory Doctorow's 'Red Team Blues' - Chapter 1 of AudiobookCory Doctorow has given us permission to play the first chapter of Red Team Blues directly on our podcast! And as an added treat, the audio-book is read by none other than Will Wheaton, the actor who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek The Next Generation - a voice that you will instantly recognize. It's pretty rare to hear excerpts from an author’s work directly on a podcast that discusses their work. Authors usually do not have the power to give such permission because they generally have to sign away control over the rights to their own creative outpu...
2023-11-1655 min
The Diner PodcastBonus Episode: Cory Doctorow on Chokepoint Capitalism at Elevate Festival 2023 [EN]
Defeat chokepoint capitalism to get artists paid. Talk by Cory Doctorow at Elevate Festival 2023 on Chokepoint Capitalism, the book he co-wrote with Rebecca Giblin.
Links
chokepointcapitalism.com – Defeat chokepoint capitalism to get artists paidGet the DRM-free e-book and audiobook via Cory’s website
Thanks a lot to Cory Doctorow and the wonderful team of Elevate Festival 2023!
2023-10-061h 08The Diner PodcastCory Doctorow on Chokepoint Capitalism [EN]
The profit of big tech should rightfully go to others. Five giant publishers, four giant studios, three giant record labels, two companies that do all the ad tech and ads and one company that does all the ebooks and audiobooks mean one thing: we have a problem. Cory Doctorow about how the big tech business models work, how they deprive creatives from getting payed fairly and what we can do about it.
Links
Cory DoctorowChokepoint CapitalismFobazi Ettarh: Vocational Awe (YT link; to watch it without Google analyzing you, use invidio.us...
2023-10-0646 min
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 198 Cory Doctorow on Seizing the Means of ComputationJim talks with Cory Doctorow about the ideas in his new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. They discuss Cory's long affiliation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, destroying Big Tech instead of "fixing" it, why tech lords are not evil geniuses, how Big Tech consolidated, antitrust law, the felony contempt of business model, interoperability, the high-speed shell game of digital, the kill zone, the case of Diapers.com, the falling fortunes of tech workers, defining IP, Grokster, "polite competition," automated notice and takedown, Jim's proposal for content moderation, the flexibility of fair use, Interoperable Facebook, prior...
2023-09-2053 min
The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian ReillyCory Doctorow: Shakedowns, Shell Games & Other Silicon Valley ShenanigansPatricia & Christian talk to acclaimed author and activist Cory Doctorow, about his new crypto heist thriller "Red Team Blues", and the real-world money mechanics and shady shenanigans that inform the story. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast Order "Red Team Blues" here: https://craphound.com/shop/ LIVE EVENT! Christian will be interviewing Cory Doctorow in Nottingham (UK!) on Tuesday 30th May 2023, tickets here: https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow...
2023-05-171h 02Plutopia News NetworkCory Doctorow: Chokepoint CapitalismScience fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow returns to the Plutopia podcast. We discuss his latest book, Chokepoint Capitalism, and his definition of a chokepoint. We also explore the impact of mergers and consolidation on American society, the need for increasing enforcement by the FTC and SEC, antitrust law, and much more.
Cory Doctorow: It’s a chokepoint, that’s the kinds of structures that Rebecca and I identify in this book. That ou have these structural problems where two firms control all the mobile, and those firms have convergent policies that act to the detriment of b...
2022-12-2651 min
Copyright WaffleCopyright Waffle Episode 21 Cory DoctorowJane and Chris (copyrightliteracy.org) speak to science fiction author, journalist, digital rights activist and copyright legend Cory Doctorow.
We hear about his introduction to the copyright debates, his conversion to openness, the problems with the modern copyright regime and his latest book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' written with Rebecca Giblin. We also get his response to a song commemorating our conversation which appears to be by Kraftwerk.
Here are links to the things Cory mentions in the podcast:
Cory on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow
Cory's blog https://pluralistic.net/
Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/
Cult...
2022-11-091h 17
Triangulation (Video)Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.
Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-301h 04Triangulation (Audio)Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.
Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-301h 04
TWiT Events (Audio)Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.
Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-301h 04TWiT Events (Video)Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.
Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv...
2022-09-301h 04
The Boldly Now ShowGFI05: Cory Doctorow, The Remixed FutureToday, most of our content online is derivative of someone else’s work. It’s a remix and rework of anything and everything. It’s all reflective. It’s all copyrighted. Not that the copyrights are being enforced, but it’s still mindboggling how out of date our copyright system is. Cory Doctorow is one of the earliest adopters of the Creative Commons License for his works. He and his science fiction novels play with this emerging era of creative cynicism. Today, Cory gives us a deep insight into this issue and how the ownership of works and ideas is bound t...
2022-03-191h 11
The War on CarsThe End of Uber with Cory DoctorowRemember when Uber, the mobile phone taxi-hailing app, was going to revolutionize transportation, transform cities, and lead us to our glorious robot-car future? That wasn't so long ago. So, what happened? Where did it all go? Cory Doctorow has some ideas. A prolific non-fiction author, sci-fi novelist, and technology activist Doctorow has been a keen observer and critic of Uber for years now. "Uber," Doctorow writes, "is a bezzle. Every bezzle ends. And Uber's time is up." Plus: Reality has a well known anti-car bias. ***This episode is sponsored by Cleverhood.*** Support The War on Car...
2022-01-2631 min
Walled CultureCory Doctorow - Part 2: New publishing models for creators, Amazon as a frenemy, and the Internet Archive court caseAuthor, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the new publishing models available to creators, the consolidation of the publishing and distribution markets, the emergence of Amazon as a frenemy to publishers and the misunderstandings that led to the Internet Archive court case.
Highlights with timestamps:
1:26 Cory talks about the new publishing models for books, the Creative Commons license, and how other people can also make money even after putting their content online for free
15:20 Cory also explains the reasons why his publishers asked him to stop using the Creative Commons licenses
18:34 Cory talks ab...
2021-09-2335 min
Walled CultureCory Doctorow - Part 2: New publishing models for creators, Amazon as a frenemy, and the Internet Archive court caseAuthor, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the new publishing models available to creators, the consolidation of the publishing and distribution markets, the emergence of Amazon as a frenemy to publishers and the misunderstandings that led to the Internet Archive court case.Highlights with timestamps:1:26 Cory talks about the new publishing models for books, the Creative Commons license, and how other people can also make money even after putting their content online for free 15:20 Cory also explains the reasons why his publishers asked him to stop using the Creative Commons licenses 18:34 Cory talks about th...
2021-09-2335 minWalled CultureCory Doctorow – Part 1: Newspapers, Big Tech, Link Tax, DRM and Right to repairAuthor, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the evolution of newspapers, the role and threats posed by big tech, the collateral damage created by link taxes and the impact of digital rights management systems (DRM) on our daily lives, including on our right to repair
Highlights with timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:05 Cory talks about the link tax, Craigslist, monopolies and how this is impacting the press especially newspapers and also how the internet impacted the press and what needs to be done
17:22 Cory explains why he feels that link taxes affect the smaller startups platforms m...
2021-09-2135 minWalled CultureCory Doctorow – Part 1: Newspapers, Big Tech, Link Tax, DRM and Right to repairAuthor, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the evolution of newspapers, the role and threats posed by big tech, the collateral damage created by link taxes and the impact of digital rights management systems (DRM) on our daily lives, including on our right to repairHighlights with timestamps:0:00 Intro4:05 Cory talks about the link tax, Craigslist, monopolies and how this is impacting the press especially newspapers and also how the internet impacted the press and what needs to be done 17:22 Cory explains why he feels that link taxes affect the smaller startups platforms more a...
2021-09-2135 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 31 – CONCLUSION)
Here’s part thirty-one, the conclusion of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it ca...
2021-02-0800 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 30)
Here’s part thirty of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-02-0100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 29)
Here’s part twenty-nine of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-01-2500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 28)
Here’s part twenty-eight of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-01-1800 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 27)
Here’s part twenty-seven of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2021-01-1100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 26)
Here’s part twenty-six of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-12-1400 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 25)
Here’s part twenty-five of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-12-0700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 24)
Here’s part twenty-four of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-11-2300 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comThe Attack Surface Lectures: Cyberpunk and Post Cyberpunk
The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in Cory Doctorow’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers.
This program is “Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk,” hosted by Anderson’s Books in Naperville, IL, with guest-hosts Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown. It was recorded on October 19, 2020.
Here is the original Youtube link for this program. Please consider subscribing to Anderson’s Youtube channel for access to all their outstanding author events!
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2020-11-1900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 23)
Here’s part twenty-three of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-11-1600 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 22)
Here’s part twenty-two of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-11-0900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 21)
Here’s part twenty-one of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
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Here’s how my pub...
2020-11-0200 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 20)
Here’s part twenty of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-10-2600 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 19)
Here’s part nineteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Some show notes:
Here’s the form for g...
2020-10-1900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 18)
Here’s part eighteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
Content warning for domestic abuse and sexual violence.
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Some s...
2020-10-1200 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 17)
Here’s part seventeen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Some show notes:
Here’s the form for gettin...
2020-10-0500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comAttack Surface on the MMT Podcast
I was incredibly happy to appear on the MMT Podcast again this week, talking about economics, science fiction, interoperability, tech workers and tech ethics, and my new novel ATTACK SURFACE, which comes out in the UK tomorrow (Oct 13 US/Canada):
https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/68-cory-doctorow-digital-rights-surveillance-capitalism-interoperable-socks
We also delved into my new nonfiction book, HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, and how it looks at the problem of misinformation, and how that same point of view is weaponized by Masha, the protagonist and antihero of Attack Surface.
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744...
2020-10-0100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 16)
Here’s part sixteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-09-2800 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 15)
Here’s part fifteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-09-2100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 14)
Here’s part fourteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-08-2400 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 13)
Here’s part thirteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-08-1700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 12)
Here’s part twelve of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-08-0300 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 11)
Here’s part eleven of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-07-2700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 10)
Here’s part ten of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-07-2100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 09)
Here’s part nine of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-07-0600 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 08)
Here’s part eight of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-06-2900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 07)
Here’s part seven of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-06-2200 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 06)
Here’s part six of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-06-1500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 05)
Here’s part five of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
There’s more of Kurt in this week’s episode; as I mentioned in last week’s intro, Kurt is loosely based on my old friend Darren Atkinson, who pulled down a six-figure income by recovering, repairing and reselling high-tech waste from Toronto’s industrial suburbs. Darren was the subject of the first feature I ever sold to Wired, Dumpster Diving.
But Kurt...
2020-06-0800 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 04)
Here’s part four of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
In this installment, we meet Kurt, the crustypunk high-tech dumpster-diver. Kurt is loosely based on my old friend Darren Atkinson, who pulled down a six-figure income by recovering, repairing and reselling high-tech waste from Toronto’s industrial suburbs. Darren was the subject of the first feature I ever sold to Wired, Dumpster Diving, which was published in the September, 1997 issue.
This...
2020-05-2500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 03)
Here’s part three of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
2020-05-1800 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 02)
Here’s part two of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here).
In this installment, we meet Kurt, the crustypunk high-tech dumpster-diver. Kurt is loosely based on my old friend Darren Atkinson, who pulled down a six-figure income by recovering, repairing and reselling high-tech waste from Toronto’s industrial suburbs. Darren was the subject of the first feature I ever sold to Wired, Dumpster Diving, which was published in the September, 1997 issue.
This...
2020-05-0400 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 01)
Here’s part one (MP3) of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which debuted last weekend on the Podapalooza festival.
It’s easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read.”
Here’s how my publisher described it when it came out:
Alan is a middle-age...
2020-04-2700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comRadio Free Burrito Presents Return To Pleasure Island By Cory Doctorow (fixed)
Wil Wheaton and I swapped podcasts! I read his 2008 journal entries about Little Brother and parenting, and he released a fantastic audiobook (MP3) of my story Return to Pleasure Island from my first short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
2020-04-1500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comMy appearance on Cool ToolsThis week, I appear on the Cool Tools podcast to discuss my favorite, most indispensible gadgets and services and why I love them.
https://kk.org/cooltools/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-author/
My top picks were my Crkt Snap-Lock knife – a one-handed-opening, lightweight, super versatile pocket knife that I carry everywhere.
https://www.crkt.com/snap-lock.html
I also chose my Chinese OEM underwater MP3 player. I swim every day for my chronic pain maintenance and this is how I make it bearable, getting through 1-2 audiobooks/month.
https://ww...
2020-03-2000 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTalking about Disney’s 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future
Back in 2007, I wrote a science fiction novella called “The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrrow,” about an immortal, transhuman survivor of an apocalypse whose father is obsessed with preserving artifacts from the fallen civilization, especially the Carousel of Progress, an exhibition that GE commissioned from Disney for the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, which is still operating in Walt Disney World.
The novella was collected into my 2011 Outspoken Authors book from PM Press.
Bleeding Cool News’s Jason Henderson is a fellow Carousel of Progress obsessive, and he asked me if I’d come on...
2019-11-2500 min
Singularity.FMCory Doctorow on Walkaway: This will all be so great if we don’t screw it upCory Doctorow is probably my all time most favorite science fiction writer. The reason for that is simple – Doctorow is not only a great story-teller but also an activist. To paraphrase Karl Marx, writers have tried to capture and describe the world but the point, however, is to change it. And Cory is a fantastic example of an author who doesn’t spend his life in solitude or writing retreats. No. Doctorow jumps right in the trenches and is not afraid to get his hands dirty in doing what is necessary and what is right. Needless to say, I was elat...
2019-08-161h 32
Geopolitics & EmpireCory Doctorow: Big Tech, EU Copyright Directive, & the Chinafication of the Internet
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Cory Doctorow discusses the oligarchic or monopoly power amassed by Big Tech (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon), their business model of surveillance capitalism, the need for anti-trust reform, the futility of using alternative systems, the EU Copyright Directive, and the Chinafication of the internet. He also discusses his fascinating science fiction work.
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2019-05-2800 min
Triangulation (Video)Cory Doctorow: Radicalized
Cory Doctorow's latest book is Radicalized. Megan Morrone talks to him about DRM toast, online radicalization and science fiction vs. futurism.
Buy Radicalized: https://amzn.to/2VdUejR
Host: Megan Morrone
Guest: Cory Doctorow
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-05-031h 01Triangulation (Audio)Cory Doctorow: Radicalized
Cory Doctorow's latest book is Radicalized. Megan Morrone talks to him about DRM toast, online radicalization and science fiction vs. futurism.
Buy Radicalized: https://amzn.to/2VdUejR
Host: Megan Morrone
Guest: Cory Doctorow
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
2019-05-031h 01Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTalking Radicalized on CBC’s Day 6, with Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail
This morning, CBC’s flagship weekend programme Day Six aired its latest episode (MP3), a conversation between host Brent Bambury, me, and Tim Maughan, the author of an outstanding debut novel called Infinite Detail. (Image: Jason Vermes/CBC))
It’s often said that sci-fi’s role is to project the future, but Doctorow is skeptical of that perspective.
“What we’re doing is kidding ourselves that we’re projecting a future; I think that at best, we’re reflecting the present,” he told Bambury.
“As an activist, I have t...
2019-03-2300 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comA Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: An interview with PRI’s Innovation Hub
I chatted with Innovation Hub, distributed by PRI, about the role of science fiction and dystopia in helping to shape the future (MP3).
Three Takeaways
1. Doctorow thinks that science-fiction can give people “ideas for what to do if the future turns out in different ways.” Like how William Gibson’s Neuromancer didn’t just predict the internet, it predicted the intermingling of corporations and the state.
2. When you have story after story about how people turn on each other after disaster, Doctorow believes it gives us the larg...
2018-01-0500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTalking Walkaway on the Barnes and Noble podcast
I recorded this interview last summer at San Diego Comic-Con; glad to hear it finally live!
Authors are, without exception, readers, and behind every book there is…another book, and another. In this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by two writers for conversations about the vital books and ideas that influence inform their own work. First, Cory Doctorow talks with B&N’s Josh Perilo about his recent novel of an imagined near future, Walkaway, and the difference between a dystopia and a disaster. Then we hear from Will Schwalbe, talking with M...
2017-12-1600 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTalking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast
CNet has started a new book-club podcast, and they honored me by picking my novel Walkaway as their second-ever title.
We had a long and far-ranging discussion last week about the book and the themes it raises: disasters, economics, technological immortality, community, trolling, bohemianism, and much more (MP3).
Since a big part of “Walkaway” concerns ideas of artificial intelligence and the line between humans and machines (which becomes more blurred as the book progresses), Scott and I circle back later to talk about Blade Runner, its new sequ...
2017-10-1900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comA Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: interview with Innovation HubI’m on the latest episode of Innovation Hub (MP3):
Science-fiction is a genre that imagines the future. It doesn’t necessarily predict the future (after all, where are flying cars?), but it grapples with the technological and societal changes happening today to better understand our world and where it’s heading.
So, what does it mean when so much of our most popular science-fiction – The Handmaid’s Tale, The Walking Dead, and The Hunger Games – present bleak, depressing futures? Cory Doctorow might just have an answer. He’s a blogger, writer, activist, and author of the new boo...
2017-07-2900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTalking about contestable futures on the Imaginary Worlds podcastI’m in the latest episode of Imaginary Worlds, “Imagining the Internet” (MP3), talking about the future as a contestable place that we can’t predict, but that we can influence.
We were promised flying cars and we got Twitter instead. That’s the common complaint against sci-fi authors. But some writers did imagine the telecommunications that changed our world for better or worse. Cory Doctorow, Ada Palmer, Jo Walton and Arizona State University professor Ed Finn look at the cyberpunks and their predecessors. And artist Paul St George talks about why he’s fascinated b...
2017-06-1500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comMy guest-appearance on Hello From the Magic Tavern
I’m a huge fan of the fantastically rude improv/current affairs/high fantasy podcast Hello From the Magic Tavern, I’ve enjoyed it ever since I binge-listened to the first season halfway through.
Last month, I dropped into the Cards Against Humanity studios where the podcast is recorded while in Chicago on my book tour, where I sat in on a session (MP3) where I played Sigint, the Five-Eyed Spider, a whistleblowing ex-spy for the Dark Lord.
I had an amazing time: I’m no improver, but the Magic Tavern-dwellers were s...
2017-05-2900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTalking about Allan Sherman on the Comedy on Vinyl podcast
Jason Klamm stopped my office to interview me for his Comedy on Vinyl podcast, where I talked about the first comedy album I ever loved: Allan Sherman’s My Son, the Nut.
I inherited my mom’s copy of the album when I was six years old, and listened to it over and over until I discovered — the hard way — that you can’t leave vinyl records on the dashboard of a car on a hot day.
Our discussion ranged far and wide, over the golden age of novelty flexidiscs, Thomas Piketty, Hamilton...
2016-10-1300 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comHow free software stayed free
I did an interview with the Changelog podcast (MP3) about my upcoming talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference in London, explaining how it is that the free and open web became so closed and unfree, but free and open software stayed so very free, and came to dominate the software landscape.
“Desperate” is often the opposite of “open”: it’s when we’re in trouble that we’re most likely to compromise on our principles. How, then, did open become the default for so many tools and applications? Because when you...
2016-09-2600 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comPodcast: How we’ll kill all the DRM in the world, forever
I’m keynoting the O’Reilly Security Conference in New York in Oct/Nov, so I stopped by the O’Reilly Security Podcast (MP3) to explain EFF’s Apollo 1201 project, which aims to kill all the DRM in the world within a decade.
A couple things changed in the last decade. The first is that the kinds of technologies that have access controls for copyrighted works have gone from these narrow slices (consoles and DVD players) to everything (the car in your driveway). If it has an operating system or a networking stack, i...
2016-08-1700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comMy interview on Utah Public Radio’s “Access Utah”Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist Cory Doctorow joins us for Tuesday’s AU. In a recent column, Doctorow says that “all the data collected in giant databases today will breach someday, and when it does, it will ruin peoples’ lives. They will have their houses stolen from under them by identity thieves who forge their deeds (this is already happening); they will end up with criminal records because identity thieves will use their personal information to commit crimes (this is already happening); … they will have their devices compromised using passwords and personal data that leaked from old accounts...
2016-07-1200 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comO’Reilly Hardware Podcast on the risks to the open Web and the future of the Internet of Things
I appeared on the O’Reilly Hardware Podcast this week (MP3, talking about the way that DRM has crept into all our smart devices, which compromises privacy, security and competition.
In this episode of the Hardware podcast, we talk with writer and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow. He’s recently rejoined the Electronic Frontier Foundation to fight a World Wide Web Consortium proposal that would add DRM to the core specification for HTML. When we recorded this episode with Cory, the W3C had just overruled the EFF’s objection. The result...
2016-05-1100 min
The InterrobangWhat is the best way to destroy the internet before it destroys us? Cory Doctorow and Alan BroughIt has to be said: the cat pictures might not be enough. The internet definitively sucks sometimes. It’s a willing and fertile host to our most objectionable prejudice, anger and desire; an open marketplace for exploitation, child porn and illicit drugs and weapons. It provides a container for our greed, impatience and emotional evasiveness, and its liberating potential often feels like a false promise buried in a much larger mountain of disconnection, voyeurism and social media-fuelled narcissism.
Even the feelgood and useful bits are compromised – our tracked behaviour is sold to advertisers, while security agencies like the...
2016-01-2700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comQ&A from Clarion West benefit/reading in SeattleHere’s the Q&A portion of the Cory Doctorow in Conversation event I did to benefit the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop in Seattle on July 28, 2015. The audio was provided Frank Catalano, who also conducted the interview. MP3
2015-07-3000 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comLISTEN: Wil Wheaton reads “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”
I’ve posted the first chapter (MP3) of Wil Wheaton’s reading of my book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free (which sports introductions by Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer!), which is available as a $15 DRM-free audiobook, sweetened by samples from Amanda Palmer and Dresden Dolls’ “Coin-Operated Boy.”
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In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the d...
2014-12-1900 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comInterview with The Command Line podcast
I just appeared on the Command Line podcast (MP3) to talk about Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free — Thomas and I really had a wide-ranging and excellent conversation:
In this episode, I interview Cory Doctorow about his latest book, “Information Doesn’t Want to be Free: Laws for the Internet Age.” If you are interested in learning more about the topics we discuss and that that book covers, you can also check out books by the scholars we mention: Lawrence Lessig, James Boyle and William Patry. I compared Cory’s book to “The Indie Band Survival Guide” the aut...
2014-12-1400 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comPRI’s Studio 360 on Disney parks
The PRI Show Studio 360 has released a great episode in its “American Icons” series, this one dealing with the Disney themeparks. I was delighted to be interviewed for it, and they’ve included our complete, unedited interview with the piece.
Generations of Americans have grown up with Walt Disney shaping our imaginations. In 1955, Disney mixed up some fairy tales, a few historical facts, and a dream of the future to create an alternate universe. Not just a place for fun, but a scale model of a perfect world. “Everything that you could imagine is there,”...
2013-10-1700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTeaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves
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-doctorow-teaching-computers-shows-us-how-little-we-understand-about-ourselves/
which concerns itself with the ways that we’re recklessly formalizing critical elements of human identity such as “names” and “families” for the convenience of corporations and their IT systems and business-models.
“When a programmer instructs a computer to reject, or disregard, all input longer than 64 characters, she effectively makes it impossible for a bureaucrat – however sympathetic – to accommodate a name that’s longer than she’s imag...
2013-08-0500 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comAudio from my Homeland tour presentationThomas “Command Line” Gideon came out for the DC stop on my Homeland tour, at Busboys and Poets, and mic’ed me up for the event. He’s mastered the audio and posted it. It’s a 40 minute talk about the promise of technology to improve our lives, the risks from allowing technology to be used to surveil and control us, and the contributions Aaron Swartz made to this cause and to the book. There’s also about 20 minutes of Q&A.
TCLP 2013-03-13 Cory Doctorow on the Themes of “Homeland”
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2013-03-1800 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comHappy hols!Today, on a very special Cory Doctorow podcast, the podcasting debut of Ms Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow!
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2012-12-2100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comInterview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
I did an interview with The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, which they’ve published in both text and MP3 form. We talked about Pirate Cinema, Rapture of the Nerds, the Humble Ebook Bundle, the future of publishing, the Disney/Star Wars merger, and lots more:
Wired: Do you ever get letters from kids who have been inspired by your books to become hacker anarchists?
Doctorow: Yeah, all the time — at least to become hackers, and political activists. My first young-adult novel Little Brother had an afterword with a...
2012-11-1400 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comAudio version of my essay collection Context
Jan Rubak has once again set out to create a fan-audiobook of my essays, reading aloud from my book Context as he did with my earlier collection, Content. He’s a great reader, and he’s uploaded half the book so far, with the rest promised soon. Here’s an MP3 of his reading of “Think Like a Dandelion.”
“Context” by Cory Doctorow : Jan Rubak : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
(Thanks, Jan!)
2011-11-2200 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comAlice and me on Rum Doings podcast
My wife Alice and I did a two-for-one interview with the Rum Doings podcast, a gamey, geeky good time: “Amazingly we get onto the economy of Star Trek, via the consequences of teleporters. There is much discussion of the consequences of new technology on, well, everything. And then comes piracy, geocoding, and the surprise appearance of LittleBigPlanet developer, Luke Petre. Finally, we move on to talking about MakieLab’s project to develop 3D toys linked to online gaming.”
Rum Doings Episode 76 Special: Cory Doctorow & Alice Taylor
MP3 link
2011-07-0100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comCopper Robot interview, pt 2Here’s part 2 of the interview I conducted in Second Life with the Copper Robot show. In this part, I talk about the research that went into For the Win.
“For anyone who’s my age and uses computers, you would have to undertake an extraordinary effort not to be a gamer,” he said. He started computer games at age 8, when a neighbor got Pong, and they became obsessed with the game.
“We think you’ve got to be somebody who spends 70 hours a week playing World of Warcraft in order to call yourself a gamer,” Cory...
2010-06-1000 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comCopper Robot podcast interview about Makers
Mitch Wagner from the Second Life interview show Copper Robot has written up my interview there a couple weeks ago, in a Tor.com post called “A cheery conversation with Cory Doctorow about the upside of economic collapse.” He’s also included the audio, which I’m folding into my podcast feed.
A cheery conversation with Cory Doctorow about the upside of economic collapse
MP3 link
2010-01-2200 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comRadio Berkman interviewHere’s an interview I did with Radio Berkman — the podcast of the Berkman Center at Harvard.
Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow – In Defense of ©
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2009-11-2000 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comTo Market, To Market: podcastRoy Trumbull has just posted his latest installment in his podcast readings of science fiction stories, and for this one he’s chosen my story “To Market, To Market: The Branding of Billy Bailey,” which was published in my first short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Roy really nailed the reading — this is one of my more comic stories, about elementary school kids who worry endlessly about their personal brands and sponsorship opportunities.
Billy and Principal Andrew Alty went all the way back to kindergarten, when Billy had convinced Mitchell McCoy that the green fi...
2009-04-0100 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 001
After a long hiatus, I’m back at my podcast, and to kick it off, I’m reading my 2005 novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, “A miraculous story of secrets, lies, magic and Internet connectivity.” It’s going to take a while — this is a looong book — and I’m really looking forward to it. I haven’t re-read this book since it was published, and it’s been enough time that it’s like reading something someone else wrote, which is really cool and fun.
Here’s the Publishers’ Weekly summary:
“It’s only natural that...
2009-01-0700 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comHello Cory — the audioPaul Parkinson has adapted “Hello Cory” (Kyt Dotson’s rollicking little fanfic story about, well, me) for audio, taking advantage of its Creative Commons license. He says, “Use, abuse, reuse. All yours.”
MP3 Link
2007-12-0200 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comShadow of the Mothaship podcast, Part 01Part one of the podcast of Cory Doctorow’s story “Shadow of the Mothaship,” initially published in Amazing Stories magazine, Winter 2000, reprinted in A Place So Foreign and Eight More, Four Walls Eight Windows Press 2003. A strange, stylised Scientology/Alien-Invasion/Oedipus story.
Part 1 MP3
2006-04-3000 minPodcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comI, Robot, Part 05 – CONCLUSION – FIXEDHere’s the fixed part five of the podcast of my story “I, Robot.”
Part Five MP3 fixed
Sorry — I uploaded a truncated version of this file. I’ve updated it with a complete version. My apologies -Cory
2006-02-2600 min