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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>

Here’s part four of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother and Homeland. In addition to the free online read, you can buy this as an ebook single (DRM-free, of course!) (Image: Yuko Shimizu) Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/12/23/lawful-interception-04/" class="more-link" title="Read Lawful Interception 04">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part three of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother and Homeland. In addition to the free online read, you can buy this as an ebook single (DRM-free, of course!) (Image: Yuko Shimizu) Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/12/16/lawful-interception-03/" class="more-link" title="Read Lawful Interception 03">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part two of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother and Homeland. In addition to the free online read, you can buy this as an ebook single (DRM-free, of course!) (Image: Yuko Shimizu) Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/12/09/lawful-interception-02/" class="more-link" title="Read Lawful Interception 02">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In this week’s installment of my podcast, I break my long hiatus with the first part of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother and Homeland. In addition to the free online read, you can buy this as an ebook single (DRM-free, of course!). If you grow up... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/12/03/lawful-interception-01-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Lawful Interception 01">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/10/17/nprs-studio-360-on-disney-parks/" class="more-link" title="Read PRI’s Studio 360 on Disney parks">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I was privileged to appear on Michael Krasny’s Forum on KQED in San Francisco this morning as part of the San Francisco Public Library’s One City/One Book celebrations for my novel Little Brother. The KQED people already have the audio (MP3) up on the Internet, which is pretty zippy production-mojo.

I just got back from South Africa’s Internet Service Provider Association annual conference, iWeek 13. While there, I sat down with TechCentral’s Craig Wilson for an interview (MP3) — about privacy, the NSA, DRM and the future of the Internet.

I did an interview with the Circulating Ideas library podcast (MP3) at the American Library Association conference this year. We talked about information politics, DRM and libraries, my own history with reading and books, and the future of librarianship.

In the currently installment of my podcast, I read aloud a recent Guardian column, “Metadata – a wartime drama, which imagines a dialog between Alan Turing and Winston Churchill that might have taken place if the UK Home Secretary Theresa May had been Turing’s line-manager All we can tell with this analysis is who is... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/08/12/podcast-of-metadata-a-wartime-drama/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast of “Metadata – a wartime drama”">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/08/05/teaching-computers-shows-us-how-little-we-understand-about-ourselves-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In honour of the Great Firewall of Cameron — the UK government’s plan to force ISPs to turn on network-level spying and censorship of “adult” material — I’ve read aloud There’s no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks, a column I wrote for the Guardian the last time the UK government floating this... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/07/29/theres-no-way-to-stop-children-viewing-porn-in-starbucks-2/" class="more-link" title="Read There’s no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I recently recorded an interview with NPR’s “Here and Now” about surveillance, kids, activism, and my novel Homeland. (MP3)

Here’s a read-aloud of my recent Guardian column, “The NSA’s Prism: why we should care, which sets out the reasons for caring about the recent revelations of bulk, warrantless, suspicionless, indiscriminate surveillance. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a audiovisual and multimedia producer based in Washington, DC and the co-host of... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/07/08/the-nsas-prism-why-we-should-care-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The NSA’s Prism: why we should care">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Neil Gaiman’s taken over the Guardian’s Books Podcast, and had me and agent Jonny Geller and Henry Volans, head of Faber Digital, in the studio for a wide-ranging and awfully fun podcast. The first 20 minutes are a fascinating look at weird London by Damien Walter, and then we kick off with the discussion. MP3... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/06/14/guardian-podcast-on-publishing-with-jonny-geller-and-henry-volans/" class="more-link" title="Read Guardian podcast on publishing with Jonny Geller and Henry Volans">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Institute for the Future commissioned me to write a story about the “Internet of Things,” and I wrote them a piece called By His Things Will You Know Him, about death, networks, and computers. It’s part of an anthology called “An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter,” which we’ll... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/06/13/by-his-things-shall-you-know-him-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read By His Things Shall You Know Him (podcast)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I recorded an interview with the PRI show The World yesterday about Orwell, Huxley and the NSA. It came out well, I think. MP3 Link

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning’I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/05/27/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-09/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 09">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I did an interview (MP3) this week with The Pod Delusion, following on from my Sense About Science lecture.

Glenn Fleishman had me on his New Disruptors podcast and we had a great conversation! (MP3)

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning’I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/05/20/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-08/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 08">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I gave the annual Sense About Science lecture last week in London, and The Guardian recorded and podcasted it (MP3). It’s based on the Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine talk I gave at Re:publica in Berlin the week before.

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning’I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/05/13/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-07/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 07">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. volume As part of that, planning’I going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/05/06/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-06/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 06">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Slate’s “Stranger Than Fiction” podcast has just aired its second episode: a discussion between Tim Wu (a cyberlawyer, Internet scholar and good egg) and me (MP3)! Future installments will include talks with Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood (as well as others) — the inaugural episode featured Tim in discussion with Neal Stephenson.

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/04/29/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-05/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 05">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

[NB: Some indeterminate screwup, which was nevertheless definitely caused by me being a stoop, caused this episode not to make it into my feed. I are a dum.] As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/04/26/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-03-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 03">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/04/22/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-04/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 04">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The NPR show OffTopic aired an episode called Give and Take: Pirates, Profiteers, and Art in the Age of Appropriation, and spoke to me for it. It’s a really interesting listen! MP3 link

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into the podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/03/25/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-02/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume. As part of that planning, I’m going to read aloud the entire text of that first book into my podcast, making notes on the book as I go. Here’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/03/18/down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-read-aloud-part-01/" class="more-link" title="Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Thomas “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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/03/17/audio-from-my-homeland-tour-presentation/" class="more-link" title="Read Audio from my Homeland tour presentation">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading of my recent Locus column, Ten Years On, in which I reflect on my first decade as a novelist and discuss a possible further volume related to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, my first-ever novel: I never thought I’d write a sequel. The allure of writing books has always been... <a href="https://craphound.com/down/2013/03/11/ten-years-on/" class="more-link" title="Read Ten Years On">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The folks at Beyond the Book interviewed me for a recent podcast (MP3). We talked about computer control, DRM, publishing, and my latest book, Homeland.

Last week I sat down for an interview with Rick Kleffel at KQED in San Francisco. He’s put the whole interview — a long one! — up in his Trashotron podcast feed. We talked about Homeland and other things. Rick, as always, was a very astute interviewer. MP3 link

Here’s a reading from my upcoming novel, Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother. It’s a rehearsal for the readings I’ll be giving at schools and libraries when I leave for my 22-city US tour next week. He fitted me with a blood pressure cuff — yeah, it was a tactical cuff, which clearly made this... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/01/28/reading-from-homeland/" class="more-link" title="Read Reading from Homeland">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

On today’s podcast, I read read my obituary for Aaron Swartz, and the afterword he wrote for my upcoming novel, Homeland. I met Aaron when he was 14 or 15. He was working on XML stuff (he co-wrote the RSS specification when he was 14) and came to San Francisco often, and would stay with... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2013/01/21/rip-aaron-swartz/" class="more-link" title="Read RIP, Aaron Swartz">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I sat down with the fascinating crew at the Titanium Physicists podcast to serve as their special physics-ignoramus guest in an episode about entropy (MP3)

Today, on a very special Cory Doctorow podcast, the podcasting debut of Ms Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow! MP3 Link

Here’s a podcast of my recent Locus column, The Internet of the Dead: I had begun my trip with a few days in Toronto, attending to a strange and new kind of memorial ritual for a close friend who had died unexpectedly in June. My friend’s name was Erik ‘‘Possum Man’’ Stewart, and I’d known... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/12/10/the-internet-of-the-dead/" class="more-link" title="Read The Internet of the Dead">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access: One of the strongest arguments for public access in scholarly and scientific publication is the “public debt” argument: if the public pays you to do research, the research should belong to the public. That’s a good argument, but... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/11/26/why-all-pharmaceutical-research-should-be-made-open-access-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my recent Nature comment, co-written with Ben Laurie, Secure the Internet: In 2011, a fake Adobe Flash updater was discovered on the Internet. To any user it looked authentic. The software’s crypto­graphic certificates, which securely verify the authenticity and integrity of Internet connections, bore an authorized signature. Internet users who thought... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/11/19/secure-the-internet-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Secure the Internet podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/articles/2012/11/14/interview-with-geeks-guide-to-the-galaxy/" class="more-link" title="Read Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I recently recorded an interview with the BBC’s Digital Human programme, which was recording an episode on death. It’s came out very well. MP3 Link

Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell: The banks are now outsourcing their fraud prevention to computers that can make dozens of calls all at once, around the clock, fishing (or phishing) for someone who just happened to have made an unusual purchase... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/11/05/automated-calls-fraud-and-the-banks-a-mismatch-made-in-hell-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I recently sat down with Thomas Gideon of the wonderful Command Line podcast, and talked about Rapture of the Nerds, Pirate Cinema, and the future of the Internet. It’s always a pleasure to be on Thomas’s show. MP3 Link