Latest Doctorow Podcast Episodes
Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2022 Edition
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - December 12, 2022 14:46 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWhen my daughter Poesy was four, her nursery school let us know that they were shutting down a day before my wife’s office closed for the holidays, leaving us with a childcare problem. Since I worked for myself, I took the day off and brought her to my office, where we recorded a short podcast,.....
Sound Money
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - September 12, 2022 00:28 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read “Sound Money,” my latest column for Medium, which explains why money creation is necessary for a prosperous economy, despite the scaremongering of “inflation hawks.” MP3
What is Chokepoint Capitalism?
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 21, 2022 23:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read “What is Chokepoint Capitalism?” a recent column for Medium explaining the thesis of my new book with Rebecca Giblin, which explains how creative labor markets got rigged, and how we can unrig them. (Image: Erik B. Anderson, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified) MP3
So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 08, 2022 12:56 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read “So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me,” a recent column for Medium describing the joys of writing to attract the audience of people who want to read what you want to write. (Image: Sascha Kohlmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, modified) MP3
View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - July 31, 2022 23:52 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read “View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe,” a recent column for Medium discussing how interoperability could flip Amazon’s monopoly power on its head and enable us all to coveniently shop locally. MP3
Why none of my books are available on Audible
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - July 24, 2022 19:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read “Why none of my books are available on Audible,” a short audiobook I produced to be distributed through Amazon’s ACX platform, explaining how that platform’s sloppy rights verification and mandatory DRM screws over writers. MP3 (Image: Paris 16, CC BY-SA 4.0; Dmitr...
Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 27, 2022 13:36 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts, about the growing trend of standard, non-negotiable contract terms in freelance writing contracts that are outrageous in their unfairness. MP3
Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 20, 2022 12:53 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent blog post, Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers, exploring the way that med-tech mergers are bringing the ghastly inkjet printer business-model to artificial pancreases. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0; Björn Heller, CC BY 2.0 (German); modified) MP3
Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 12, 2022 23:20 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsRegulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism. This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism., about the origins of the theory of regulatory capture, and the all-important, but rarely...
Against Cozy Catastrophies
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 06, 2022 03:01 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Against Cozy Catastrophies, about the how the changeover from universal, state- or employer-provided pensions to market-based pensions like the 401(k) have created an inescapable, slow motion catastrophe, where the only thing worse than bein...
Apple’s Cement Overshoes
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 30, 2022 16:06 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Apple’s Cement Overshoes, about the malicious compliance in Apple’s “home repair kits.” (Image: Conall, CC BY 2.0, modified) MP3
About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 19, 2022 16:51 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors, suggesting that what John Deere did to Russian looters, anyone can do to farmers, anywhere. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified) MP3
Revenge Of The Chickenized Reverse Centaurs
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 01, 2022 18:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs, about the relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified) MP3
Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 18, 2022 02:09 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content, about the calls from the news industry for tech companies to pay licensing fees for quoted news-snippets, and why this both ignores and worsens the real problem: ad-fraud. MP3
When Automation Becomes Enforcement
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 10, 2022 17:53 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, When Automation Becomes Enforcement, about the debate of interoperability and end-to-end encryption in the EU’s Digital Markets Act, and how that relates to the long-running battle over who’s in charge: you, or your computer? MP3
The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 03, 2022 23:23 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy. MP3
The Byzantine Premium
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 27, 2022 23:11 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Byzantine Premium, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy. (Image: Jakub-gdPL and FAMartin, CC BY-SA 4.0; Delwar Hossain, BD, CC BY 4.0; Jernej Furman, CC BY 2.0; modified) MP3
What is “Peak Indifference?”
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 21, 2022 12:32 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, What is “Peak Indifference?” in which I explain my theory of how we change – or fail to change – in the face of wicked problems. (Image: Cameron Strandberg/CC BY 2.0, modified) MP3
Vertically Challenged
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 13, 2022 20:40 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Vertically Challenged, about “how and why to break up Big Tech.” MP3 (Image: Anthony Quintano; CC BY 2.0, modified; Paramount/Star Trek, modified)
All (Broadband) Politics Are Local
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 07, 2022 00:09 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, All (Broadband) Politics Are Local, about the near-miraculous shift in the political will to provide universal fiber to all Americans, and what you can do to spur this process on. MP3
We Should Not Endure a King
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 27, 2022 22:44 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one, addressed to leftists who are skeptical of antitrust as a market-based solution that implictly accepts markets as the legitimate arbiter of our social relation...
The Internet Heist (Part III)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 21, 2022 15:18 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part III), the third and final part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology. MP3
The Internet Heist (Part II)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 13, 2022 21:57 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part II), the second part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology. MP3
The Internet Heist (Part I)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 07, 2022 15:47 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part I), the first part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology. MP3
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - January 31, 2022 05:18 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator about my experience with Pixsy, a new kind of copyright troll that targets Creative Commons users. MP3 Image: Nenad Stojkovic (modified) https://commons.wikime...
Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - January 10, 2022 15:51 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature about the technological critique the Luddites embodied, the unfair rep they got, and how it applies to today’s tech hellscape. MP3
Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2021 Edition
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - December 23, 2021 15:18 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWhen my daughter Poesy was four, her nursery school let us know that they were shutting down a day before my wife’s office closed for the holidays, leaving us with a childcare problem. Since I worked for myself, I took the day off and brought her to my office, where we recorded a short podcast,.....
Give Me Slack
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - December 06, 2021 18:38 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Give Me Slack about the many second (and third, and fourth) chances I got as a kid and a student, and how the educational and work system has put paid to them. MP3
Jam To-Day
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - November 22, 2021 00:56 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Jam To-Day, about how interoperability is unique among competition remedies in that it does good from day one. (Image: Oleg Sidorenko, CC BY 2.0, modified) MP3
The Unimaginable
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - November 15, 2021 17:44 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, The Unimaginable, about science fiction, Thatcherism, and imagining a transition to a post-climate-emergency future. MP3
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