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- Copy fight: Cory Doctorow's struggle to make books free
- Last Friday morning, the writer Cory Doctorow took the stage of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Bronfman Hall and, over the course of 45 minutes, delivered a lecture entitled “How to Destroy the Book.” He began his keynote address of the TD…
- Times Colonist
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- 11/17/2009
- Meet publishers' enemy No. 1: Cory Doctorow
- T he traditional publishing industry's worst nightmare arrived in Toronto this week when science-fiction author Cory Doctorow addressed the TD National Reading Summit on the burning question of “How to Destroy the Book.” As one of the…
- Globe and Mail
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- 11/18/2009
- PODCAST: Cory Doctorow talks Makers, 3-D printers, and Disney…
- After a brisk reading, Doctorow spent most of his time fielding audience questions -- or, as he jokingly put it, "thinly veiled polemics disguised as questions." But his fans were perhaps the most well-behaved bunch of question-askers ever…
- Boston Phoenix
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- 11/18/2009
- Technology Is Stranger Than Fiction
- The heroes also run a series of entertainment rides across the country in abandoned Wal-Marts, until Disney unleashes its lawyers on them. Mr. Doctorow, a Canadian living in London, has a keen eye for the pressures on contemporary business.
- Wall Street Journal
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- 18 hours ago
- MAKERS (Book Review)
- Author Cory Doctorow strikes first-rate entertainment with his cyberpunk novel, MAKERS. The reader travels to a not so far future where robots make toast, and contact lenses turn the eyes into shiny black beads. The impressive story arc is…
- FANGORIA
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- 11/16/2009
- Doctored image in Ralph Lauren ad generates buzz
- Frame grabs of Boing Boing web page showing image of ultra-thin model Filippa Hamilton used in a Ralph Lauren advertisement. Major fashion house Ralph Lauren admitted Thursday to "poor imaging and retouching" of a stick-skinny model used in…
- canada.com
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- 5 hours ago
- More Skirmishes In The Search Wars: Murdoch and Bing Talk…
- Google holds 71% of the search market ; Bing, 10% ( chart ). Cory Doctorow has a clear crystal ball. Earlier this month, Rupert Murdoch accused Google of stealing his content and threatened to cut the search giant off. Cory guessed that…
- The Moderate Voice
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- 9 hours ago
- Makers has moments but they achieve little
- There is plenty in Cory Doctorow's fifth novel to get technology buffs salivating – 3D printers, stair-climbing wheelchairs and the triumph of blogs over newspapers. But only the most ardent will be able to overlook its one-dimensional…
- Metro.co.uk
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- 11/19/2009
- The usual suspects are threatening to dismantle our Internet
- We are coming up to a watershed moment in the existence of the Internet and very few people seem to care. Right now there are two separate events happening that will have a direct impact on both the Internet we have right now and the one we…
- The Inquisitr
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- 7 hours ago
The Inquisitr- Chumby Guts: Robot Viscera For Hackers
- In Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, one of the main characters puts together an amazing little hack using a bunch of Boogie Woogie Elmo toys. These have been stripped of their fur and let loose on a tiny electric Smart Car.…
- Wired News
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- 11/20/2009
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