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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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/10/13/talking-about-allan-sherman-on-the-comedy-on-vinyl-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking about Allan Sherman on the Comedy on Vinyl podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/09/26/how-free-software-stayed-free/" class="more-link" title="Read How free software stayed free">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

On this just-released episode of the O’Reilly Radar podcast (MP3), I talk about EFF’s lawsuit against the US government to invalidate Section 1201 of the DMCA, which will make it legal to break DRM in order to fix security vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things devices that, today, are almost invariable insecure, and are also... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/08/25/talking-about-the-pro-security-anti-drm-business-model-on-the-oreilly-radar-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking about the pro-security, anti-DRM business model on the O’Reilly Radar Podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

While I was in NYC to keynote the 11th Hackers on Planet Earth convention, I sat down with the Radio Statler folks and explained what I was going to talk about, as well as bantering with the hosts about the relative merits of DEFCON and HOPE and the secret to managing cons and marriages (MP3).

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/08/17/podcast-how-well-kill-all-the-drm-in-the-world-forever/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: How we’ll kill all the DRM in the world, forever">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/07/12/my-interview-on-utah-public-radios-access-utah/" class="more-link" title="Read My interview on Utah Public Radio’s “Access Utah”">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Summit, speaking about how the people who are building a new kind of decentralized web can guard against their own future moments of weakness and prevent themselves from rationalizing away the kinds of compromises that led to the centralization of today’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/06/20/video-guarding-the-decentralized-web-from-its-founders-human-frailty/" class="more-link" title="Read Video: Guarding the Decentralized Web from its founders’ human frailty">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 href="https://craphound.com/news/2016/05/11/oreilly-hardware-podcast-on-the-risks-to-the-open-web-and-the-future-of-the-internet-of-things/" class="more-link" title="Read O’Reilly Hardware Podcast on the risks to the open Web and the future of the Internet of Things">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

It’s been a year since I sat down at the mic, but it’s Christmas and we have a tradition to uphold. Now we’re settling in here in Burbank and I’ve got a new computer, I’m hoping to get everything running again and get back to a regular schedule. MP3

I appeared on the current episode of “A Call From Paul” (MP3), a podcast created by Paul Holdengraber, who curates the NY Public Library’s amazing interview series. Paul and I talked about London, UK politics, class war, education, and books.

I did an interview (MP3) with the O’Reilly Radar podcast at the Solid conference last month; we talked about the Apollo 1201 project I’m doing with EFF. In the absence of any other confounding factors, obnoxious stuff that vendors do tends to self-correct, but there’s an important confounding factor, which is that in 1998, Congress... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2015/08/17/interview-with-oreilly-radar-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Interview with O’Reilly Radar podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’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

I’m a guest on this week’s New America Foundation cybersecurity podcast, hosted by Amanda Gaines and Peter Warren Singer (whose new book, Ghost Fleet, a novel about cybersecurity, is about to hit the stands) and edited by the great John Taylor Williams. MP3 link

Here’s the audio from last night’s talk on the Internet of Things at Central European University in Budapest! It was recorded by the Mindenki Joga Radio Show.

It’s that time again! School is out, but I’m still working, so the kid came to the office with me, just in time to record a new podcast. This year, Poesy performs a stirring rendition of Jingle Bells, with dirty words! MP3

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.” Buy Now In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory... <a href="https://craphound.com/info/2014/12/19/listen-wil-wheaton-reads-information-doesnt-want-to-be-free/" class="more-link" title="Read LISTEN: Wil Wheaton reads “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Radio New Zealand National’s This Way Up recorded this interview with me, which airs tomorrow (Saturday), about my book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free (MP3).

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/info/2014/12/13/interview-with-the-command-line-podcast-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Interview with The Command Line podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I appear in the latest edition of the Writing Excuses podcast (MP3), recorded live at Westercon in Salt Lake City last summer, with Mary Robinette Kowal, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells and Howard Tayler, talking about why we care about characters.

Last month, I sat down for a long conversation (MP3) with Ken Jones for the Between the Covers at Portland, Oregon’s KBOO community radio station, talking about my book Information Doesn’t Want to be Free. They’ve posted the audio so people from outside of Portland can hear it too!

I’m heading to Ann Arbor, DC and Baltimore this week for a series of talks — I did a a quick interview with Baltimore’s WYPR (MP3) that came out very well!

Here’s an MP3 of the audio from the Reigniting Society’s Ambition with Science Fiction event that I did with Neal Stephenson and Ed Finn at Seattle Town Hall on Oct 26, to promote the Hieroglyph anthology, designed to inspire optimistic technologies to solve the Earth’s most urgent problems. I had a story in it called... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/11/12/audio-from-seattle-hieroglyph-event-with-neal-stepehenson/" class="more-link" title="Read Audio from Seattle Hieroglyph event with Neal Stepehenson">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I sat down at New York Comic-Con with Aaron from The Geekcast podcast for a long, interesting interview (MP3) on a wide variety of subjects about art, computers, games and justice!

Here’s the audio of my closing keynote speech at last Friday’s Dconstruct (this was the tenth Dconstruct; I’m pleased to say that I also gave the closing speech at the very first one!). You can hear audio from the rest of the speakers too.

Here’s a reading (MP3) of the first part of my story “Petard: A Tale of Just Desserts” from the new MIT Tech Review anthology Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling. The anthology also features fiction by William Gibson, Lauren Beukes, Chris Brown, Pat Cadigan, Warren Ellis, Joel Garreau, and Paul Graham Raven. The 2013 summer... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/09/01/podcast-petard-from-tech-reviews-twelve-tomorrows/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Petard from Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage, which examines how Hachette’s insistence on DRM for their ebooks has taken away all their negotiating leverage with Amazon, resulting in Amazon pulling Hachette’s books from its catalog in the course of a dispute over discounting: Under US law (the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/06/23/podcast-how-amazon-is-holding-hachette-hostage/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of a short story I wrote for the July, 2014 issue of Wired UK in the form of a news dispatch from the year 2024 — specifically, a parliamentary sketch from a raucous Prime Minister’s Question Time where a desperate issue of computer security rears its head: Quick: what do all... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/06/16/podcast-news-from-the-future-for-wired-uk/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: News from the future for Wired UK">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This morning, I gave the keynote speech the 2014 conference of The Literary Consultancy in London, about the future of publishing. They got the audio up with lightning speed (I’m in the auditorium, listening to the follow-on panel). MP3 Link

Here’s a reading (MP3) of a recent Guardian column, ‘Cybersecurity’ begins with integrity, not surveillance, in which I suggest that the reason to oppose mass surveillance is independent of whether it “works” or not — the reason to oppose mass surveillance is that mass surveillance is an inherently immoral act: The Washington Post journalist Barton... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/06/09/podcast-cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: ‘Cybersecurity’ begins with integrity, not surveillance">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my latest Locus column, How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance, in which I describe the way that I’ve explained the Snowden affair to my six-year-old: So I explained to my daughter that there was a man who was a spy, who discovered that the spies he... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/06/02/podcast-how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-mass-surveillance/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I was on American Public Media’s Marketplace yesterday talking (MP3) about our posting of a rarer-than-rare Disney treasure, the never-before-seen original prospectus for Disneyland, scanned before it was sold to noted jerkface Glenn Beck, who has squirreled it away in his private Scrooge McDuck vault.

Note: This is a fixed version of this week’s podcast; I accidentally uploaded an older podcast under this headline. Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my latest Guardian column, Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart, a close analysis of the terrible news that Mozilla has opted to add closed source DRM to its... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/05/19/podcast-fixed-firefoxs-adoption-of-closed-source-drm-breaks-my-heart/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast (FIXED): Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my latest Guardian column, Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart, a close analysis of the terrible news that Mozilla has opted to add closed source DRM to its flagship Firefox browser: The decision to produce systems that treat internet users as untrusted adversaries to be controlled by... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/05/19/podcast-firefoxs-adoption-of-closed-source-drm-breaks-my-heart/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my recent Guardian column, Why it is not possible to regulate robots, which discusses where and how robots can be regulated, and whether there is any sensible ground for “robot law” as distinct from “computer law.” One thing that is glaringly absent from both the Heinleinian and Asimovian brain... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/05/12/podcast-why-it-is-not-possible-to-regulate-robots/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Why it is not possible to regulate robots">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my latest Guardian column, Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom, which tries to make sense of the disastrous news that the Federal Communications Commission is contemplating rules to allow ISPs to demand bribes from publishers in exchange for letting you see the webpages... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/04/28/podcast-internet-service-providers-charging-for-premium-access-hold-us-all-to-ransom/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my November, 2013 Locus column, Collective Action, in which I propose an Internet-enabled “Magnificent Seven” business model for foiling corruption, especially copyright- and patent-trolling. In this model, victims of extortionists find each other on the Internet and pledge to divert a year’s worth of “license fees” to a collective... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/03/31/podcast-collective-action-the-magnificent-seven-anti-troll-business-model/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Collective Action – the Magnificent Seven anti-troll business-model">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Two of my friends contributed afterwords to my novel Homeland: Aaron Swartz and Jacob Appelbaum. In this outtake from the independently produced Homeland audiobook (which you can get for the next week exclusively through the Humble Ebook Bundle), Jake reads his afterword at The Hellish Vortex Studio in Berlin, where he is in exile after... <a href="https://craphound.com/homeland/2014/03/25/jake-appelbaum-reads-his-homeland-afterword-with-bonus-atari-teenage-riot-vocoder-mix/" class="more-link" title="Read Jake Appelbaum reads his Homeland afterword, with bonus Atari Teenage Riot vocoder mix">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

What happens with digital rights management in the real world? Podcast: What happens with digital rights management in the real world? Here’s a reading (MP3) of a recent Guardian column, What happens with digital rights management in the real world where I attempt to explain the technological realpolitik of DRM, which has nothing much to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/03/24/podcast-what-happens-with-digital-rights-management-in-the-real-world/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: What happens with digital rights management in the real world?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s Wil Wheaton reading chapter one of my novel Homeland (here’s the MP3, which I paid to independently produce for the third Humble Ebook Bundle, which runs for another eight days. I’ve loved all of my audio adaptations, but Wil’s was a dream come true for me. He really, really nailed it. What’s more, because... <a href="https://craphound.com/homeland/2014/03/24/wil-wheaton-reads-chapter-one-of-homeland/" class="more-link" title="Read Wil Wheaton reads chapter one of Homeland">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Humble Ebook Bundle continues to rock, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for a bundle of great name-your-price ebooks, including Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies, Steve Gould’s Jumper, and Holly Black’s Tithe. Also included in the bundle is an exclusive audiobook of my novel Homeland, read by Wil Wheaton. I commissioned Wil to read the book... <a href="https://craphound.com/homeland/2014/03/21/homeland-audiobook-wil-wheaton-explains-how-little-brother-and-homeland-make-you-technologically-literate/" class="more-link" title="Read Homeland audiobook: Wil Wheaton explains how Little Brother and Homeland make you technologically literate">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Humble Ebook Bundle is going great guns, with a collection of recent and classic books from both indie and major publishers, all DRM-free, on a name-your-price basis. Included in the bundle is an exclusive audio adaptation of my novel Homeland, read by Wil Wheaton, who also appears as a character in the novel. When... <a href="https://craphound.com/homeland/2014/03/19/homeland-audiobook-behind-the-scenes-wil-wheaton-explains-his-cameo-to-the-director/" class="more-link" title="Read Homeland audiobook behind the scenes: Wil Wheaton explains his cameo to the director">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

As mentioned yesterday, the DRM-free, independent audiobook of my novel Homeland is available from the Humble Bundle for the next two weeks, along with a collection of brilliant science fiction and fantasy from authors ranging from Scott Westerfeld to Holly Black. I commissioned the audiobook for the project, and paid Wil Wheaton to read it... <a href="https://craphound.com/homeland/2014/03/19/wil-wheaton-has-a-surreal-moment-reading-the-homeland-audiobook/" class="more-link" title="Read Wil Wheaton has a surreal moment reading the Homeland audiobook">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology where I try to convey the insanity of spy agencies that weaken Internet security in order to make it easier for them to spy on people, by comparing this to germ warfare. Last year,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/03/17/podcast-if-gchq-wants-to-improve-national-security-it-must-fix-our-technology/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Locus column, Cold Equations and Moral Hazard which considers the way that science fiction can manipulate our ideas about the technical necessity for human misery, and how that narrative can be hijacked for self-serving ends. Apparently, editor John W. Campbell sent back three rewrites in which the pilot... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/03/03/podcast-cold-equations-and-moral-hazard/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading of a recent Guardian column, What does David Cameron’s Great Firewall look like? which debunks the UK government’s stupid arguments for its national anti-porn firewall: David Cameron’s attempt to create a Made-in-Britain version of Iran’s “Halal Internet” is the worst of both worlds for parents like me. Kids are prevented from seeing... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/02/03/podcast-what-does-david-camerons-great-firewall-look-like/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: What does David Cameron’s Great Firewall look like?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading of my latest Locus column, Cheap Writing Tricks, which discusses the mysterious business of why stories are satisfying, and how to make them so: Plots are funny things. In the real world, stuff is always happening, but it’s not a plot. People live. People die. People are made glorious or miserable. Things... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/01/27/podcast-cheap-writing-tricks/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Cheap writing tricks">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading of my latest Guardian column, Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful, about the social and political factors that make all the difference when choosing technologies. Banshee fails gracefully because its authors don’t attempt any lock-in. When I find myself diverging from the design philosophy of Banshee to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/01/20/podcast-digital-failures-are-inevitable-but-we-need-them-to-be-graceful/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s the second, concluding part of my reading of my 2003 short story “Flowers From Al,” written with Charlie Stross for New Voices in Science Fiction, a Mike Resnick anthology (Here’s part one). It’s a pervy, weird story of transhuman romance. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/01/13/flowers-from-al-02/" class="more-link" title="Read Flowers From Al 02">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part one of my 2003 short story “Flowers From Al,” written with Charlie Stross for New Voices in Science Fiction, a Mike Resnick anthology. It’s a pervy, weird story of transhuman romance. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/01/06/flowers-from-al-01/" class="more-link" title="Read Flowers From Al 01">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Every year, there’s a day or two between the date that my daughter’s school shuts and the day that my wife’s office shuts for Christmas holidays. Those are the official seasonal mid-week daddy-daughter days, and for the past two years, my daughter and I have gone to my office to record a podcast. Last year’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/12/23/christmastime-daddy-daughter-podcast-with-poesy/" class="more-link" title="Read Christmastime daddy-daughter podcast with Poesy">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>