Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
Episodes
Talking about Allan Sherman on the Comedy on Vinyl podcast
13 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Klamm stopped my office to interview me for his Comedy on Vinyl podcast, where I talked about the first comedy album I ever loved: Allan Sherman...
How free software stayed free
26 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I did an interview with the Changelog podcast (MP3) about my upcoming talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference in London, explaining how it i...
Talking about the pro-security, anti-DRM business model on the O’Reilly Radar Podcast
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this just-released episode of the O’Reilly Radar podcast (MP3), I talk about EFF’s lawsuit against the US government to invalidate Sect...
Podcast: Live from HOPE on Radio Statler
20 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
While I was in NYC to keynote the 11th Hackers on Planet Earth convention, I sat down with the Radio Statler folks and explained what I was going to t...
Podcast: How we’ll kill all the DRM in the world, forever
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I’m keynoting the O’Reilly Security Conference in New York in Oct/Nov, so I stopped by the O’Reilly Security Podcast (MP3) to explai...
My interview on Utah Public Radio’s “Access Utah”
12 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist Cory Doctorow joins us for Tuesday’s AU. In a recent column, Doctorow says that “all the...
Video: Guarding the Decentralized Web from its founders’ human frailty
20 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Summit, speaking about how the people who are build...
O’Reilly Hardware Podcast on the risks to the open Web and the future of the Internet of Things
11 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I appeared on the O’Reilly Hardware Podcast this week (MP3, talking about the way that DRM has crept into all our smart devices, which compromis...
Podcast: Happy Xmas! (guest starring Poesy)
25 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a year since I sat down at the mic, but it’s Christmas and we have a tradition to uphold. Now we’re settling in here in Bu...
Interview on Paul Holdengraber’s “Call from Paul” podcast
13 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I appeared on the current episode of “A Call From Paul” (MP3), a podcast created by Paul Holdengraber, who curates the NY Public Library&#...
Interview with O’Reilly Radar podcast
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I did an interview (MP3) with the O’Reilly Radar podcast at the Solid conference last month; we talked about the Apollo 1201 project I’m d...
Q&A from Clarion West benefit/reading in Seattle
30 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the Q&A portion of the Cory Doctorow in Conversation event I did to benefit the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop in Seattle on Ju...
Cybersecurity podcast
20 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I’m a guest on this week’s New America Foundation cybersecurity podcast, hosted by Amanda Gaines and Peter Warren Singer (whose new book, ...
My talk on the Internet of Things, wealth disparity, surveillance, evidence-based policy and the future of the world
16 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the audio from last night’s talk on the Internet of Things at Central European University in Budapest! It was recorded by the Minde...
Podcast: Happy Xmas! (guest starring Poesy)
22 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time again! School is out, but I’m still working, so the kid came to the office with me, just in time to record a new podcast. T...
LISTEN: Wil Wheaton reads “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”
19 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve posted the first chapter (MP3) of Wil Wheaton’s reading of my book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free (which sports introducti...
Interview with Radio New Zealand’s This Way Up
19 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Radio New Zealand National’s This Way Up recorded this interview with me, which airs tomorrow (Saturday), about my book Information Doesn’...
Interview with The Command Line podcast
14 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I just appeared on the Command Line podcast (MP3) to talk about Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free — Thomas and I really had a wide-rangi...
Why should we care about characters?
01 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I appear in the latest edition of the Writing Excuses podcast (MP3), recorded live at Westercon in Salt Lake City last summer, with Mary Robinette Kow...
Wide-ranging conversation with Portland’s KBOO about Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
20 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 statio...
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free interview with Baltimore morning radio
18 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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) t...
Audio from Seattle Hieroglyph event with Neal Stepehenson
12 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 Se...
Interview with The Geekcast
23 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
“Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free”
08 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Podcast: Petard from Tech Review’s Twelve Tomorrows
01 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Podcast: How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage
23 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage, which examines how Hachette’s insistence on D...
Podcast: News from the future for Wired UK
16 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 — s...
Audio from today’s keynote on digital publishing
13 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Podcast: ‘Cybersecurity’ begins with integrity, not surveillance
09 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of a recent Guardian column, ‘Cybersecurity’ begins with integrity, not surveillance, in which I suggest that...
Podcast: How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance
02 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my latest Locus column, How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance, in which I describe the way that IR...
Talking with APM’s Marketplace about the Disneyland prospectus
28 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I was on American Public Media’s Marketplace yesterday talking (MP3) about our posting of a rarer-than-rare Disney treasure, the never-before-se...
Podcast (FIXED): Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart
20 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is a fixed version of this week’s podcast; I accidentally uploaded an older podcast under this headline. Here’s a reading (MP3)...
Podcast: Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart
19 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my latest Guardian column, Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart, a close analysis of the te...
Podcast: Why it is not possible to regulate robots
12 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my recent Guardian column, Why it is not possible to regulate robots, which discusses where and how robots can be re...
Podcast: Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom
29 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my latest Guardian column, Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom, which tries...
Podcast: Collective Action – the Magnificent Seven anti-troll business-model
31 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of a my November, 2013 Locus column, Collective Action, in which I propose an Internet-enabled “Magnificent Seven&#...
Jake Appelbaum reads his Homeland afterword, with bonus Atari Teenage Riot vocoder mix
25 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Two of my friends contributed afterwords to my novel Homeland: Aaron Swartz and Jacob Appelbaum. In this outtake from the independently produced Homel...
Podcast: What happens with digital rights management in the real world?
24 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What happens with digital rights management in the real world? Podcast: What happens with digital rights management in the real world? Here’s a ...
Wil Wheaton reads chapter one of Homeland
24 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s Wil Wheaton reading chapter one of my novel Homeland (here’s the MP3, which I paid to independently produce for the third Humble Eb...
Homeland audiobook: Wil Wheaton explains how Little Brother and Homeland make you technologically literate
21 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Humble Ebook Bundle continues to rock, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for a bundle of great name-your-price ebooks, including Scott West...
Homeland audiobook behind the scenes: Wil Wheaton explains his cameo to the director
20 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Humble Ebook Bundle is going great guns, with a collection of recent and classic books from both indie and major publishers, all DRM-free, on a na...
Wil Wheaton has a surreal moment reading the Homeland audiobook
19 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
As mentioned yesterday, the DRM-free, independent audiobook of my novel Homeland is available from the Humble Bundle for the next two weeks, along wit...
Podcast: If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology
17 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Guardian column, If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology where I try to convey...
Podcast: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard
03 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Locus column, Cold Equations and Moral Hazard which considers the way that science fiction can manipulate ou...
Podcast: What does David Cameron’s Great Firewall look like?
03 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading of a recent Guardian column, What does David Cameron’s Great Firewall look like? which debunks the UK government’s ...
Podcast: Cheap writing tricks
27 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading of my latest Locus column, Cheap Writing Tricks, which discusses the mysterious business of why stories are satisfying, and how...
Podcast: Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful
20 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading of my latest Guardian column, Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful, about the social and political ...
Flowers From Al 02
14 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s the second, concluding part of my reading of my 2003 short story “Flowers From Al,” written with Charlie Stross for New Voice...
Flowers From Al 01
06 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part one of my 2003 short story “Flowers From Al,” written with Charlie Stross for New Voices in Science Fiction, a Mike Resn...
Christmastime daddy-daughter podcast with Poesy
23 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, there’s a day or two between the date that my daughter’s school shuts and the day that my wife’s office shuts for Christ...
Lawful Interception 04
23 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part four of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother and Homeland. In addition to the free onl...
Lawful Interception 03
17 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part three of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother and Homeland. In addition to the free on...
Lawful Interception 02
09 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s part two of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, of sorts, to Little Brother and Homeland. In addition to the free onli...
Lawful Interception 01
03 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s installment of my podcast, I break my long hiatus with the first part of a reading of my novella Lawful Interception, a sequel, o...
PRI’s Studio 360 on Disney parks
17 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The PRI Show Studio 360 has released a great episode in its “American Icons” series, this one dealing with the Disney themeparks. I was de...
Talking Little Brother on KQED’s The Forum
02 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I was privileged to appear on Michael Krasny’s Forum on KQED in San Francisco this morning as part of the San Francisco Public Library’s O...
How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man’s switch (podcast)
16 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, I read aloud a recent Guardian column, “How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man’s switch, which proposes a ...
Interview with South Africa’s Tech Central
13 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I just got back from South Africa’s Internet Service Provider Association annual conference, iWeek 13. While there, I sat down with TechCentral&...
Interview with Circulating Ideas library podcast
19 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I did an interview with the Circulating Ideas library podcast (MP3) at the American Library Association conference this year. We talked about informat...
Podcast of “Metadata – a wartime drama”
12 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In the currently installment of my podcast, I read aloud a recent Guardian column, “Metadata – a wartime drama, which imagines a dialog betwee...
Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves
05 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, I read aloud my latest Locus Magazine column, “Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselve...
There’s no way to stop children viewing porn in Starbucks
30 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In honour of the Great Firewall of Cameron — the UK government’s plan to force ISPs to turn on network-level spying and censorship of R...
Interview about kids, hacking and democracy with NPR’s Here and Now
10 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I recently recorded an interview with NPR’s “Here and Now” about surveillance, kids, activism, and my novel Homeland. (MP3)
The NSA’s Prism: why we should care
08 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a read-aloud of my recent Guardian column, “The NSA’s Prism: why we should care, which sets out the reasons for caring about ...
Guardian podcast on publishing with Jonny Geller and Henry Volans
14 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Gaiman’s taken over the Guardian’s Books Podcast, and had me and agent Jonny Geller and Henry Volans, head of Faber Digital, in the s...
By His Things Shall You Know Him (podcast)
13 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Institute for the Future commissioned me to write a story about the “Internet of Things,” and I wrote them a piece called By His Thing...
Interview withe PRI’s The World about Orwell, Huxley and the NSA
13 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded an interview with the PRI show The World yesterday about Orwell, Huxley and the NSA. It came out well, I think. MP3 Link
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 09
28 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. vol...
Interview with The Pod Delusion
24 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I did an interview (MP3) this week with The Pod Delusion, following on from my Sense About Science lecture.
Interview on the New Disruptors podcast
22 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Fleishman had me on his New Disruptors podcast and we had a great conversation! (MP3)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 08
20 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. vol...
Sense About Science lecture
20 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I gave the annual Sense About Science lecture last week in London, and The Guardian recorded and podcasted it (MP3). It’s based on the Waffle Ir...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 07
13 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. vol...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 06
06 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by m planning a prequel. vol...
Tim Wu and I talk networks, policy and the future
06 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Slate’s “Stranger Than Fiction” podcast has just aired its second episode: a discussion between Tim Wu (a cyberlawyer, Internet scho...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 05
29 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 03
27 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
[NB: Some indeterminate screwup, which was nevertheless definitely caused by me being a stoop, caused this episode not to make it into my feed. I are ...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 04
22 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02 – fixed
19 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume...
Interview on NPR’s Off-Topic
30 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The NPR show OffTopic aired an episode called Give and Take: Pirates, Profiteers, and Art in the Age of Appropriation, and spoke to me for it. It̵...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 02
25 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As I mentioned in my March Locus column, I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by planning a prequel volume...
Audio from my Homeland tour presentation
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas “Command Line” Gideon came out for the DC stop on my Homeland tour, at Busboys and Poets, and mic’ed me up for the event. He&...
Ten Years On
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading of my recent Locus column, Ten Years On, in which I reflect on my first decade as a novelist and discuss a possible further vol...
Podcast with Beyond the Book
04 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The folks at Beyond the Book interviewed me for a recent podcast (MP3). We talked about computer control, DRM, publishing, and my latest book, Homelan...
Interview with Rick Kleffel about <em>Homeland</em>
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Last week I sat down for an interview with Rick Kleffel at KQED in San Francisco. He’s put the whole interview — a long one! — up in...
Reading from Homeland
28 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a reading from my upcoming novel, Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother. It’s a rehearsal for the readings I’ll be giving at...
RIP, Aaron Swartz
21 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s podcast, I read read my obituary for Aaron Swartz, and the afterword he wrote for my upcoming novel, Homeland. I met Aaron when he wa...
What’s entropy?
31 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
I sat down with the fascinating crew at the Titanium Physicists podcast to serve as their special physics-ignoramus guest in an episode about entropy ...
Happy hols!
21 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Today, on a very special Cory Doctorow podcast, the podcasting debut of Ms Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow! MP3 Link
The Internet of the Dead
10 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a podcast of my recent Locus column, The Internet of the Dead: I had begun my trip with a few days in Toronto, attending to a strange and...
Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Why all pharmaceutical research should be made open access: One of the strongest arguments for pu...
Secure the Internet podcast
19 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a podcast of my recent Nature comment, co-written with Ben Laurie, Secure the Internet: In 2011, a fake Adobe Flash updater was discovere...
Interview on IT and corporate IT policy
15 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s an interview I did with the ITSM podcast, about information technology, IT policy, and corporate IT and its implications. MP3 link
Copyright debate in Denmark
14 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a recording of a debate I participated in on Monday at Denmark’s Fagfestival (yes, really — Danish has weird English cognates...
Interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
14 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
I did an interview with The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, which they’ve published in both text and MP3 form. We talked about Pirate Cinema, ...
Digital Human podcast on death
14 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
I recently recorded an interview with the BBC’s Digital Human programme, which was recording an episode on death. It’s came out very well....
Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell
05 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a podcast of my recent Guardian column, Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell: The banks are now outsourcing thei...
Interview on the Command Line podcast
17 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
I recently sat down with Thomas Gideon of the wonderful Command Line podcast, and talked about Rapture of the Nerds, Pirate Cinema, and the future of ...
This Week in Tech
16 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend I appeared on the This Week in Tech Podcast, to talk about the tech news of the week, as well as Rapture of the Nerds, Pirate Cinema and ...