Cory Doctorow's Blog, page 10
March 6, 2022
All (Broadband) Politics Are Local
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, All (Broadband) Politics Are Local, about the near-miraculous shift in the political will to provide universal fiber to all Americans, and what you can do to spur this process on.
February 27, 2022
We Should Not Endure a King
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one, addressed to leftists who are skeptical of antitrust as a market-based solution that implictly accepts markets as the legitimate arbiter of our social relations.
February 21, 2022
The Internet Heist (Part III)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part III), the third and final part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology.
February 13, 2022
The Internet Heist (Part II)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part II), the second part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology.
February 7, 2022
The Internet Heist (Part I)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part I), the first part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology.
January 30, 2022
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator about my experience with Pixsy, a new kind of copyright troll that targets Creative Commons users.
Image:
Nenad Stojkovic (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hand_on_the_computer_mouse_-_50202556601.jpg
CC BY 2.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
January 10, 2022
Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature
This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature about the technological critique the Luddites embodied, the unfair rep they got, and how it applies to today’s tech hellscape.
December 23, 2021
Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2021 Edition
When my daughter Poesy was four, her nursery school let us know that they were shutting down a day before my wife’s office closed for the holidays, leaving us with a childcare problem. Since I worked for myself, I took the day off and brought her to my office, where we recorded a short podcast, singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (a frankly amazing rendition!).
We’ve done it every year since, except for 2016 when I had mic problems. Now she’s 13, and we’ve just recorded our ninth installment...
December 6, 2021
Give Me Slack
This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Give Me Slack about the many second (and third, and fourth) chances I got as a kid and a student, and how the educational and work system has put paid to them.
November 21, 2021
Jam To-Day
This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Jam To-Day, about how interoperability is unique among competition remedies in that it does good from day one.
(Image: Oleg Sidorenko, CC BY 2.0, modified)
