Latest Doctorow Podcast Episodes
Jam To-Day
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - November 22, 2021 00:56 ★★★★★ - 77 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 ★★★★★ - 77 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
Against the great forces of history
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - October 25, 2021 11:38 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Against the great forces of history, about what Ada Palmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future. MP3
Dead Letters
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - October 17, 2021 22:54 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Dead Letters, about the spam wars and they way they’ve led to a corporate enclosure of email, making it nearly impossible to run an independent, standalone newsletter. MP3
Hope, Not Optimism
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - October 11, 2021 00:54 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Hope, Not Optimism, articulating a theory of political change that draws on technology, law, social movements and commercial pressure. MP3
Take It Back
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - October 03, 2021 21:28 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Take It Back,” on the relationship between copyright reversion, bargaining power, and authors’ rights. MP3
Breaking In (fixed)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - September 27, 2021 02:41 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Breaking In, on the futility of seeking career advice from established pros who haven’t had to submit over the transom in 20 years, where you should get career advice, and what more established writers can do for writers who are just startin...
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility and Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 30, 2021 14:14 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a pair of editorials I published on EFF’s Deeplinks blog: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Platforms Want To Be Utilities, Self-Govern Like Empires and Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs, both about antitrust and Big Tech. MP3
Disneyland at a stroll
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 22, 2021 20:36 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read Expectations management, and Disneyland at a stroll, parts five and six of my ongoing Medium series on “amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing,” on what we can learn about aggregate demand management and scarcity from the history of queues at Disney the...
Managing Aggregate Demand
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 08, 2021 19:02 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read Managing aggregate demand, part four of my ongoing Medium series on “amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing,” on what we can learn about aggregate demand management and scarcity from the history of queues at Disney theme parks. Part I: Are We Having Fun...
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 02, 2021 17:06 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read the first three installments in my ongoing Medium series on “amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing,” on what we can learn about aggregate demand management and scarcity from the history of queues at Disney theme parks. Part I: Are We Having Fun Yet? Pa...
Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - July 12, 2021 12:31 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, my latest Locus column, Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability, about the true purpose of fighting monopolies – not competition, nor interoperability, but rather, human freedom. (Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99783447@N07/9433864982/, CC...
Self Publishing
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - July 05, 2021 14:02 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, my latest Medium column, Self Publishing, about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it. MP3
Qualia
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 28, 2021 12:54 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, my May 2021 Locus Magazine column, Qualia, about the illusory “fairness” of a politics that turns on “objective” qualities. Image: OpenStax Chemistry: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figure_24_01_03.jpg CC BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en MP3
Inside The Clock Tower
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 21, 2021 12:48 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, my latest short story, Inside the Clock Tower, science fiction for Consumer Reports that paints a picture of how tech platforms might work if the ACCESS Act passes and the big companies have to allow others to interoperate with them. MP3
The Rent’s Too Damned High
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 14, 2021 03:03 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, my latest Medium column, The Rent’s Too Damned High, about the long con of convincing Americans that they will grow prosperous through housing wealth, not labor rights. MP3
I Quit
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 07, 2021 14:14 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, my latest Medium column, I Quit: Peak indifference, big tobacco, disinformation and death, on the connection between smoking cessation, monopoly, corruption, the climate emergency, and the denial epidemic. MP3
The Memex Method
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 23, 2021 23:52 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, my inaugural column for Medium, The Memex Method, a reflection on 20 years of blogging, and how it has affected my writing. MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 07)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 17, 2021 12:52 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, the conclusion to my seven-part serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 06)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 10, 2021 13:12 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, part six of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 05)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 03, 2021 02:54 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, part five of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 04)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 26, 2021 13:56 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, part four of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 03)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 19, 2021 13:27 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, part three of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 02)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 12, 2021 14:49 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, part two of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 01)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 05, 2021 15:55 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, part one of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 29, 2021 00:45 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my November 2020 Locus column, Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results, a critical piece on machine learning and artificial intelligence that takes aim at the fallacy that improvements to statistical inference will someday produce a conscious, cognitiv...
Free Markets
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 22, 2021 12:09 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my lastest Locus column, Free Markets, a postmortem of sorts on the delivery issues with my record-breaking audiobook Kickstarter for Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book. MP3
Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 3)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 28, 2021 21:44 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, the third and final part of “Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability,” a major new EFF paper by my colleague Bennett Cyphers and me. It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of...
Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 2)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 22, 2021 15:15 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, Part Two of “Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability,” a major new EFF paper by my colleague Bennett Cyphers and me. It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of our data, and t...
Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 1)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 15, 2021 17:16 ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis week on my podcast, Part One of “Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability,” a major new EFF paper by my colleague Bennett Cyphers and me. It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of our data, and t...
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