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Wide-ranging conversation with Portland’s KBOO about Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
Last month, I sat down for a long conversation (MP3) with Ken Jones for the Between the Covers at Portland, Oregon’s KBOO community radio station, talking about my book Information Doesn’t Want to be Free. They’ve posted the audio so peo
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free interview with Baltimore morning radio
I’m heading to Ann Arbor, DC and Baltimore this week for a series of talks — I did a a quick interview with Baltimore’s WYPR (MP3) that came out very well!
Audio from Seattle Hieroglyph event with Neal Stepehenson
Here’s an MP3 of the audio from the Reigniting Society’s Ambition with Science Fiction event that I did with Neal Stephenson and Ed Finn at Seattle Town Hall on Oct 26, to promote the Hieroglyph anthology, designed to inspire optimistic technologies
Interview with The Geekcast
I sat down at New York Comic-Con with Aaron from The Geekcast podcast for a long, interesting interview (MP3) on a wide variety of subjects about art, computers, games and justice!
“Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”
Here’s the audio of my closing keynote speech at last Friday’s Dconstruct (this was the tenth Dconstruct; I’m pleased to say that I also gave the closing speech at the very first one!). You can hear audio from the rest of the speakers to
Podcast: Petard from Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows
Here’s a reading (MP3) of the first part of my story “Petard: A Tale of Just Desserts” from the new MIT Tech Review anthology Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling. The anthology also features fiction by William Gibson, Lauren Beuke
Podcast: How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage
Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage, which examines how Hachette’s insistence on DRM for their ebooks has taken away all their negotiating leverage with Amazon, resulting in Amazon pullin
Podcast: News from the future for Wired UK
Here’s a reading (MP3) of a short story I wrote for the July, 2014 issue of Wired UK in the form of a news dispatch from the year 2024 — specifically, a parliamentary sketch from a raucous Prime Minister’s Question Time where a desperate
Audio from today’s keynote on digital publishing
This morning, I gave the keynote speech the 2014 conference of The Literary Consultancy in London, about the future of publishing. They got the audio up with lightning speed (I’m in the auditorium, listening to the follow-on panel). MP3 Link