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The very last episode of TVOntario’s Search Engine’s just went out (MP3), and I’m honored to say that it’s an interview with me. I started out with Search Engine when it was a broadcast on CBC radio, and I’ve been pleased to appear on the show several times since it moved to TVO. Host Jesse... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/06/26/final-episode-of-search-engine-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Final episode of Search Engine podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist: Google’s official communiques tell the world that SEO isn’t necessary – so long as you “make great content”, you’ll get higher rankings. The implication is that Google has discovered a mathematical model of relevance, a way of measuring some objective... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/06/25/google-admits-that-platos-cave-doesnt-exist-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Google admits that Plato’s cave doesn’t exist">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my recent Tech Review feature, The Curious Case of Internet Privacy: Why do we seem to value privacy so little? In part, it’s because we are told to. Facebook has more than once overridden its users’ privacy preferences, replacing them with new default settings. Facebook then responds to the inevitable public... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/06/11/the-curious-case-of-internet-privacy-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The Curious Case of Internet Privacy">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, The problem with nerd politics: Since the earliest days of the information wars, people who care about freedom and technology have struggled with two ideological traps: nerd determinism and nerd fatalism. Both are dangerously attractive to people who love technology. In “nerd determinism,” technologists dismiss dangerous and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/05/21/the-problem-with-nerd-politics-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The problem with nerd politics">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers: At the end of April, Tor Books, the world’s largest science fiction publisher, and its UK sister company, Tor UK, announced that they would be eliminating digital rights management (DRM) from all of... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/05/14/why-the-death-of-drm-would-be-good-news-for-readers-writers-and-publishers-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Why the death of DRM would be good news for readers, writers and publishers">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, A Prose By Any Other Name: Back in 2005, I did something weird. I decided that I would embark on a project to write short stories with the same (or similar) titles to famous science fiction books and stories. My initial motivation for this was Ray Bradbury... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/05/07/a-prose-by-any-other-name/" class="more-link" title="Read A Prose By Any Other Name">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?: Late in March, I started to get a steady stream of emails from concerned readers: did you see that the Internet Society has appointed the former chief technology officer of the MPAA to be their North American regional... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/04/30/why-did-an-mpaa-executive-join-the-internet-society-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Why did an MPAA executive join the Internet Society?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords: Facebook has threatened to sue companies that force their employees to reveal their Facebook login details. As laudable as this is, I worry that it will fail to accomplish its primary objective – protecting Facebook users from... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/04/16/protecting-your-facebook-privacy-at-work-isnt-just-about-passwords-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn’t just about passwords">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Publishers Weekly column, A Whip to Beat Us With: Jim C. Hines’s e-books are marketed both through a big publisher and solo. The books that were re-priced by Amazon were his solo titles—unagented, and unrepresented by a major publisher. As an individual, Jim has no leverage over Amazon. Not... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/04/02/a-whip-to-beat-us-with-2/" class="more-link" title="Read A Whip to Beat Us With">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us: The first time I ever heard someone declare the death of copyright, it wasn’t a dreadlocked GNU/Linux hacker or a cyberpunk in mirror shades: it was a music executive, circa 1999, responding to the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/03/26/copyright-isnt-dead-just-because-were-not-willing-to-let-it-regulate-us-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Copyright isn’t dead just because we’re not willing to let it regulate us">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Guardian column, Censorship is inseparable from surveillance: There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the 1920s and 1930s, the ban took the form on a prohibition on the sale of copies of the books. Theoretically, this... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/03/12/censorship-is-inseparable-from-surveillance-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Censorship is inseparable from surveillance">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, What’s Inside the Box?: The answer to this that most of the experts I speak to come up with is this: The owner (or user) of a device should be able to know (or control) which software is running on her devices. This is really four answers,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/03/05/whats-inside-the-box-2/" class="more-link" title="Read What’s Inside the Box?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a short interview I did last week in Chicago with WNIJ, an NPR affiliate. MP3 link

Here’s a podcast of my last Publishers Weekly column, Digital Lysenkoism : Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics. Soviet-era scientists were required, on pain of imprisonment, to endorse Lysenkoism, a discredited... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/02/06/digital-lysenkoism-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Digital Lysenkoism">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I did an interview last week with the CBC Radio show The Spark (I podcasted the complete interview when they posted it); now they’ve put up the edited episode. MP3 link

I did a quick interview with the CBC Radio programme “The Spark” last week from my office in London, talking about my idea of “the upcoming war on general purpose computing.” They’ve just posted the unedited audio in advance of airing a shorter excerpt. MP3 link

The StarShipSofa podcast has the second installment of Jeff Lane’s reading of my YA novella The Martian Chronicles (here’s part one). Lane does a great job with the reading. MP3 link.

Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future: Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Aren’t you worried that real science will overtake your novel before it’s published?’’ This... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/01/16/podcast-a-vocabulary-for-speaking-about-the-future/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Starship Sofa podcast has produced an excellent reading of my novella “The Martian Chronicles,” which was originally published in Jonathan Strahan’s YA anthology Life on Mars. The reading is by jeff Lane, who’s really talented. Here’s the MP3 (the reading starts around 1:50).

Here’s a transcript of my keynote at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin over Christmas week, “The Coming War on General Purpose Computation.” Here’re the relevant links: * Video * Transcript (Joshua Wise) * German translation (Christian Wöhrl) * Subtitles in German, French, Spanish and Italian (you can add more!) Mastering by John Taylor... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2012/01/09/the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computation-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The Coming War on General Purpose Computation">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

No reading this time — I’m too hard at work on finishing the sequel to Little Brother — but a Christmas wish from me to you: fight SOPA and save the Internet before the year is out! Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/12/19/an-urgent-christmas-message/" class="more-link" title="Read An Urgent Christmas Message">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on The Command Line podcast, a recording of a live chat between host Thomas Gideon and myself at the New America Foundation, discussing (among other things), my new essay collection Context. (MP3)

Here’s a reading of my story “Another Place, Another Time,” which was my contribution to The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, a companion volume to Chris Van Allsburg’s classic Mysteries of Harris Burdick, a collection of illustrations and titles from a lost (imaginary) short story collection. I was commissioned to produce a story for the collection... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/11/28/another-place-another-time/" class="more-link" title="Read Another Place, Another Time">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/11/22/audio-version-of-my-essay-collection-context/" class="more-link" title="Read Audio version of my essay collection Context">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s an interview I did last week with the SF-Fantasy.de podcast in Berlin MP3 Link

Here’s a reading of my short-short story “Authorised Domain,” commissioned as part of a package on “the future of the living room.” The judge said I have to write this note and so I am, but I want to put it right at the top that I don’t think it’s fair. It begins with Mum... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/31/authorised-domain/" class="more-link" title="Read Authorised Domain">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

My steampunk YA short story, “Clockwork Fagin” (about the children who are mangled by the machinery of the industrial-information revolution, who murder the orphanage’s cruel master and replace him with a taxidermied automaton that they use to fool the nuns who oversee the place), has been turned into a podcast by the good folks at... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/21/clockwork-fagin-on-escape-pod/" class="more-link" title="Read Clockwork Fagin on Escape Pod">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading of my essay Saying Information Wants to Be Free Does More Harm Than Good, just reprinted in my second essay collection Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/10/saying-information-wants-to-be-free-does-more-harm-than-good-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Saying Information Wants to Be Free Does More Harm Than Good">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading of my essay Jack and the Internetstalk, just reprinted in my second essay collection Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/03/jack-and-the-internetstalk-from-context/" class="more-link" title="Read Jack and the Internetstalk, from Context">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s a reading of my short story Brave Little Toaster, which was just published in TRSF, the inaugural science fiction anthology from MIT’s Tech Review. It’s a short-short story on the “Internet of Things” and what happens when it all goes wrong. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/09/28/the-brave-little-toaster-from-trsf/" class="more-link" title="Read The Brave Little Toaster, from TRSF">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s an interview I recorded with the Renovation Podcast, the official podcast of the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, NV. MP3 Link

I’ve just gotten back from Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, Nevada, where I sat down for an interview with Graveyard Greg from the Short Story Geeks podcast. My bit starts around 26:40. MP3 Link

Here’s a reading of my introduction for the 20th anniversary edition of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s Difference Engine, which is just out from Random House, with new material from Bill and Bruce. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/08/01/introduction-to-20th-anniverary-edition-of-the-difference-engine/" class="more-link" title="Read Introduction to 20th anniverary edition of The Difference Engine">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s my reading of Clay Shirky’s brilliant essay Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic: Outside a relative handful of financial publications, there is no such thing as the news business. There is only the advertising business. The remarkable thing about the newspapers’ piece of that business isn’t that they could reliably... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/07/25/podcast-shirkys-why-we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Shirky’s Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

To commemorate the sixth anniversary of the excellent Command Line podcast, I interviewed the show’s host, Thomas Gideon, now a staff technologist at New America Foundation. Command Line covers technology, games, civil liberties and related issues, and it’s one of my favorite podcasts — it was great fun to chat with Thomas on his podaversary.... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/07/06/podcast-i-interview-thomas-gideon-from-the-command-line/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: I interview Thomas Gideon from the Command Line">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/07/01/alice-and-me-on-rum-doings-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Alice and me on Rum Doings podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s my reading of Mark Twain’s classic short story, How I Edited an Agricultural Paper, a seriously funny and trenchant look at both journalism and agriculture. The guano is a fine bird, but great care is necessary in rearing it. It should not be imported earlier than June or later than September. In the winter... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/06/27/mark-twain-how-i-edited-an-agricultural-paper/" class="more-link" title="Read Mark Twain: How I Edited an Agricultural Paper">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part seven, the conclusion of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/06/13/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-07-conclusion/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 07 — CONCLUSION">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part six of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/06/06/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-06/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 06">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part five of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/05/31/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-05/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 05">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Earlier this year, I interviewed IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan at The Story conference. Matt Locke, who put on the event, has just posted an MP3 of the chat.

Here’s part four of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/05/23/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-04/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 04">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part three of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/05/16/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-03/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 03">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part two of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/05/09/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-02/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 02">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Escape Pod people had some technical problems with their Shannon’s Law podcast. Here’s the fixed MP3.

I have a short story called “Shannon’s Law” in the new Welcome to Bordertown anthology, the first Bordertown book in decades. I was absolutely delighted to be invited to contribute a story, and had a fun time writing my piece, which is about the application of information theory to the problem of bridging the lands... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/05/05/shannons-law-a-story-about-bridging-faerie-and-the-mundane-world-with-tcp-over-magic/" class="more-link" title="Read Shannon’s Law: a story about bridging Faerie and the mundane world with TCP-over-magic">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part one of my reading of my story-in-progress, Knights of the Rainbow Table, a story commissioned by Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel’s Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel’s engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/05/02/knights-of-the-rainbow-table-01/" class="more-link" title="Read Knights of the Rainbow Table 01">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week, I’ve read another of my favorite Mark Twain stories, A Petition to the Queen of England, a tax-time gem. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2011/04/11/podcast-a-petition-to-the-queen-of-england-mark-twain/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: A Petition to the Queen of England (Mark Twain)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Yesterday, I recorded a fun, hour-long chat with Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt on the Triangulation podcast — the audio is linked below, but there’s also video if you’d prefer. MP3 Link

This week, I’ve read another of my favorite Mark Twain stories, The Petrified Man, a perfect April Fool’s season tale of a prank gone wrong. Mastering by John Taylor Williams: [email protected] John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2011/04/05/podcast-the-petrified-man-mark-twain/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: The Petrified Man (Mark Twain)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>