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POPSCory Doctorow: Follow your weird More: Did you get into that blissed-out concentration state that great athletes and musicians and artists find themselves in? Did you go to a place where your mind was able to talk to itself without the endless chatter of the million billion grocery items and nagging doubts? If you got there, you’re winning the game of life. You’ve spent your time well. You might even end up changing the world.
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POPSTwenty science fiction novels that may change your life Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson Newton's Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross
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POPSTransparency means nothing without justice Cory Doctorow on cyber-liberties. it is probably one of the most pressing issues in today's world, our overall culture moves into a transparent society (see David Brin) and the only way we will survive it is if tranpartency indeed will be all-pervasive
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POPSsustainable energy without the hot air fixing the energy dilemma? well at least making an honest stab at it it sounds like- am going right from this article to the pdf file- for further reading-just wanted to pass this on...
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POPSSteal my content, please!
I completely agree with Scoble on this one, although I can understand why people who make their living directly from their creations have a hard time letting go of the fear of giving away at least some of the rights to their content. Cory Doctorow began releasing all of his literary work under creative commons licenses years ago, allowing people to freely download and distribute his work under some light provisos. I downloaded and read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" on my palm pilot, freely and legally, and was hooked. Because of that, I've read a huge amount of his writing, become a mammoth fan, and will likely purchase every book he publishes. I've also published everything I've written, shot, and produced under a similar license. While that certainly hasn't brought me traditional commercial success, it has definitely accelerated serendipity countless times for me, and if you trace out the effects of those 'lucky' events, it's helped shape both my career and life.
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POPSThe Cheese That Bites Back continued: Those who do not wish to eat live maggots place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.
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POPSA2K = Access to Knowledge :: Intellectual Property Cory Doctorow opines on the state of Copyright. Didn't know there was a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Didn't know about Access to Knowledge (A2K) either. Two groups worth watching as Intellectual Property in the digital age shakes itself out.
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POPSDownload The Book By treating the electronic version of a book as information rather than property, and circulating it as widely as possible, many authors such as Paulo Coelho and Cory Doctorow actually end up selling more copies of the physical version. Pirate copies of The Pirate’s Dilemma are out there online anyway, and they don’t seem to have harmed sales. My guess is they are helping. To be honest, I was flattered that the book got pirated in the first place.
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POPSDoctorow's "Excuse Network" becomes real Cory Doctorow featured a distributed excuse network exactly like this in his short story I, Robot. You can read or listen to the podcast of the story for free here: http://craphound.com/000189.html In Doctorow's version, you called the number, said what you wanted said, specified who should say it (adult male, etc), and what number they should call. Once in a while, you got a call to do the same. There's nothing to stop this from becoming real, and apparently it's starting to! With an asterix PBX as the hub, you could even easily spoof the number the call was coming from.
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POPSThe Future of ignoring things We need a million measures like this, adaptive systems that create a gray zone between "delete on sight" and "show this to me right away."
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POPSBlogger: No good online discussion without moderation Something to consider when we talk about civility and free speech on Clipmarks. I suspect Teresa is right when she says you need moderators for good online discussion. One other thing from her moderating guidelines : There’s no more useless advice than to tell people to just ignore such things. We can’t. We automatically read what falls under our eyes.
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POPSWarner Music sues paralyzed stroke victim These people need to hire someone with some common sense and a good PR firm. Or to put it more succinctly: ARE THEY NUTS? The scare tactics used by the RiAA and their members are really backfiring into a public relations nightmare.I personally feel so revolted by all this that I am refraining from buying anything from any of these companies. (see also: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N15/RIAA1506.html)
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