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The Word On: Chris Anderson (Independent) (independent.co.uk) - July 02, 2009
"It will be interesting to see if the author gives his book (entitled Free) away for free. It seems to work pretty well for Cory Doctorow for his great sci-fi novels. A book like Free is probably even…

TOC Coming to Frankfurt (O'Reilly Media) (toc.oreilly.com) - July 02, 2009
I've had the opportunity to speak with quite a few of my industry colleagues in Europe during the past year, and it became increasingly obvious there was an opportunity to bring the Tools of Change fo…

in brief (The Fox Valley Villages Sun) (suburbanchicagonews.com) - July 02, 2009
Waubonsie Valley graduate's collection on display at gallery

It's An Eat The Press Canada Day (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti) (The Huffington Post) (huffingtonpost.com) - July 01, 2009
Hmm. It's July 1st! Somewhere, out in the recesses of memory, a strange, clarion call is sounding, reminding me of a hallowed Eat The Press tradition. But what can it be?

Warning to all copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you're out (Linux Today) (linuxtoday.com) - July 01, 2009
Guardian: "I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate."

Harvard Business Review Special Issue, "Managing in the New World," Examines Transformed Business Landscape (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) (biz.yahoo.com) - June 30, 2009
BOSTON----As the global economy shows signs of recovery, a special issue of Harvard Business Review explores how the economic crisis has fundamentally altered the business landscape and what the impli…

DVD Review: RIP! A Remix Manifesto (Blogcritics.org) (blogcritics.org) - June 30, 2009
A look into the current culture war over copyright, featuring Girl Talk, Lawrence Lessig, and Cory Doctorow.

The Iran Lesson: Technology Can Set You Free (TechNewsWorld.com) (technewsworld.com) - June 26, 2009
After two weeks of news from Iran, it wasn't a tweet from Tehran that came to symbolize the horror in a potential revolution and the real-time, cinema verite nature of its storytelling. True, it was a…

Luggable 75 lb "laptop" from 1968 - Boing Boing (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 4, 2009 12:17 PM | permalink. Harry sez, "Computers weren't portable in 1968 (they tended to fill entire rooms), but even then, the yen for portable computing was there…

Dead Gnomes: idiotically grinning ghastly garden gnomes - Boing Boing (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 4, 2009 7:02 AM | permalink. Out of the Blue's "Dead Gnome" line features garden gnomes with pistols in their mouths, or holding up the dripping heads of decapitated bret…

Reality show gives points to clerics for converting Atheists ... (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 4, 2009 6:54 AM | permalink. A new Turkish game-show asks clerics to convert atheists and awards prizes for the most conversions; I think the atheists should get points f…

One-ton manta cyclonic feeding frenzy - Boing Boing (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 4, 2009 6:50 AM | permalink. Marilyn sez, "Pretty cool photos from July National Geographic. These manta rays in the Maldives have a 12-ft-wingspan, and the photographer…

Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads - Boing ... (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 4, 2009 1:01 AM | permalink. Bruce Schneier points out that keypad wear is a form of "information leakage": "There are 10000 possible four-digit codes, but you only have…

djBC's Muppet mashups - Boing Boing (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 3, 2009 10:47 PM | permalink. djBC, consistently my favorite mashup producer/creator (he's the guy behind the Beasties/Beatles remix "The Beastles"), has released an enti…

HOWTO build a radio in a POW camp -- the real life King Rat ... (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 3, 2009 10:42 PM | permalink. This first-hand account of the construction of a clandestine shortwave radio by British POWs in a Japanese camp in Singapore really reminds…

Landmark buildings of the world as acrylic rings - Boing Boing (boingboing.net) - July 04, 2009
Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 3, 2009 10:25 PM | permalink. Etsy seller Plastique's got laser-cut acrylic rings boasting pointy world monuments. As knuckledusters, they create the possibility of growl…

Looks like Cory Doctorow was spot on re the US Dept of Homeland Sec http://bit.ly/w9mIY - July 04, 2009

Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother' is a great gift you can give your precocious intelligent teenager buddies/relatives. There's value in it. - July 04, 2009

Patriotic read for a patriotic day: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. - July 04, 2009

I'm reading Cory Doctorow's great book Little Brother again - awesome read! I learned loads, it genuinely has potential to change lives - July 04, 2009

Listening to Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe that I downloaded for free from podiobooks.com - July 04, 2009

I'm enjoying the book (via Stanza App) "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow. - July 04, 2009

yesterday paper on shed roof. 2day standard chores. 2 links Cory Doctorow awesome craphound.net and boinboing - July 04, 2009

Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow ~ #Web #Information age #Publishing #Trade ~@TaliTweets* ~ @Healing_Goddess* ~ http://moourl.com/zhniu* - July 04, 2009

Keynote [XKCD] - January 07, 2009
He should be better soon -- now that the Apple Store is getting rid of DRM, Cory Doctorow will get rid of his Steve Jobs voodoo doll.

MIT Students Get Top Marks for Hacking Boston Subway - August 20, 2008
In a story straight out of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, three MIT undergraduates concocted a scheme to hack Boston's transit payment system, the Charlie Card (no relation). The students managed to…

Cory Doctorow on DefectiveByDesign - The fight starts here! - December 14, 2007
"It's wonderful to see a campaigning group based on fighting DRM. Defective by Design has pulled off a number of audacious and clever actions that have raised public awareness of DRM. The fight starts…

Pushing the impossible - September 04, 2007
Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to go faster than the speed of light, says Cory Doctorow.

AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog - May 01, 2007
Knowing that AACS is a total failure, all that the AACS licensing authority can do is control who links to the information on the crack. What's now needed is to spread the word about the AACS crack us…

45 Free Cutting-Edge Books ... Courtesy of Creative Commons - January 23, 2007
Download legally and free good books by Cory Doctorow, Larry Lessig, and others.

0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow - September 21, 2006
Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick. [This is an awesome short story. It's a little dated but if you've never read it before, like me, it's worth checking out…

Is Ubuntu Linux for You, Too? - August 29, 2006
Like cold fusion or a painless weight-loss plan, a user-friendly version of Linux remains elusive. But developers are getting closer with Ubuntu -- a free, Linux-based operating system that appeared i…

When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my password? (guardian.co.uk) - July 01, 2009

Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Internet (C)rapshoot: How Internet Gatekeepers Stifle Progress (internetevolution.com) - June 18, 2009
"So hell yeah, I sympathize with companies and creators who want to keep Google or Amazon from becoming gatekeepers on culture. Not because of who runs Amazon or Google -- I know senior people at both…

Little Brother, the play, on in Chicago until July 18 - Boing Boing (boingboing.net) - June 17, 2009

– Ny æra for nettmålinger (nrkbeta.no) - June 16, 2009
Sjefen intervjues om de nye nettmålingene: http://tinyurl.com/m6brrl (via @nrkbeta) [from http://twitter.com/iacob/statuses/2190114516]

Tvitre oss en fortelling (nrkbeta.no) - June 16, 2009
@hans_haugli http://bit.ly/11THkH [from http://twitter.com/iacob/statuses/2276457650]

Review: Cory Doctorow's revolutionary novel Little Brother comes to the stage | SCI FI Wire (scifiwire.com) - June 15, 2009
doctorow: RT @scifinews Review: Cory Doctorow's revolutionary novel Little Brother comes to the stage: Chicago http://tinyurl.com/n3wddu

NRKs fagdag 2009 (nrkbeta.no) - June 09, 2009
RT @osol: Noen som vil være med på NRKs fagdag mot å administrere litt CoveritLive: http://bit.ly/tCD89 [from http://twitter.com/iacob/statuses/1923110320]

Cory Doctorow’s After the Siege #1 | Robot Comics (robotcomics.net) - June 08, 2009
A young girl grows in a city under siege, where the war for the cure of a zombie outbreak destroys the life she once knew. After the Siege #1, a comic written

Pedro Marques: Sugestão: Cory Doctorow na #Flip do ano que vem. (twitter.com) - July 04, 2009
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Vimal George: Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother' is a great gift you can give your precocious intelligent teenager buddies/relatives. There's value in it. (twitter.com) - July 04, 2009
Vimal George Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother' is a great gift you can give your precocious intelligent teenager buddies/relatives. There's value in it. 2 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

Matthew Daly: I'm reading Cory Doctorow's great book Little Brother again - awesome read! I learned loads, it genuinely has potential to change lives (twitter.com) - July 04, 2009
Matthew Daly I'm reading Cory Doctorow's great book Little Brother again - awesome read! I learned loads, it genuinely has potential to change lives 3 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which... (radaronline.com) - July 04, 2009
Cyberculture From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which... - http://www.radaronline.com/from-th... 8 hours ago from Delicious/tag/cyberculture - Comment - Like

Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow ~ #Web #Information age #Publishing #Trade ~@TaliTweets* ~ @Healing_Goddess* ~ http://moourl.com/zhniu* (twitter.com) - July 04, 2009
Publishing on Twitter Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow ~ #Web #Information age #Publishing #Trade ~@TaliTweets* ~ @Healing_Goddess* ~ http://moourl.com/zhniu* - http://twitter.com/TaliTwe... 8 hours ago…

[mondkroete @ mondkroete] When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my password? (mondkroete.soup.io) - July 04, 2009
finds [mondkroete @ mondkroete] When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my password? - http://mondkroete.soup.io/post... 9 hours ago from Friends of jasonw22's friends - Comment - Like Tales from…

Christian Scholz: und es gibt sogar 2 Links zwischen #europython und #fmc09: Die Keynote von Cory Doctorow und der Sponsor Ableton (twitter.com) - July 04, 2009
Christian Scholz und es gibt sogar 2 Links zwischen #europython und #fmc09: Die Keynote von Cory Doctorow und der Sponsor Ableton 9 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com » News (craphound.com) - July 04, 2009
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Cory Doctorow on ACTA - April 23, 2009
I just read the intro, and must say that I’m looking forward to the rest. Cory ... devastating! Cory Doctorow sucks. He is the sole reason I stopped reading Boing...

"Writing in the Age of Distraction" by Cory Doctorow - January 09, 2009
FYI: Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing fame has an article in Locus magazine " Writing... FYI: Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing fame has an article in Locus magazine " Writing in the Age...

"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow - January 08, 2009
Of Cory's books). Link: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ I was surprised... , I love that Cory Doctorow puts all his books available for free online. I read...

A good read: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow - August 24, 2008
Amazon One review: “Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers... gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.” --Jane McGonigal, designer of...

Is Cory Doctorow losing his goddamn mind?! : WTF - June 27, 2008
Pretty lameIt's a Cory Doctorow stand-in posting this, everyone knows that the...

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - June 26, 2008
I read Cory Doctorow's latest book, Little Brother over the weekend, and it was... ) from Cory's site: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ There are enough conversions...

Science Fiction Doctorow, Cory: LIttle Brother v1.0 2008-05-09 - May 08, 2008
Here is Cory Doctorow's newest book: Little Brother . It is released via a Creative... Thanks JonThanks, Jon!You are all very welcome!Just a note that Doctorow has recommended...

Cory Doctorow's Fiction About An Evil Google - September 21, 2007
Ahem writes "I saw a link on Valleywag to a story written by Cory Doctorow about... : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evilI'm a...