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booksblog.it » booksblog - Sep 25, 2008
Ecco un interessante punto di vista di un autore su come l’editoria digitale deve modificare il modo in cui autori ed editori riscuotono il loro dovuto compenso, senza catastrofismi. Secondo Cory Doctorow, la teoria …
Also tagged: web, blog, ebooks, editoria, intervista, fantascienza
Computers are getting smaller, hard drives are getting cheaper, and processors are getting faster — but that doesn't mean we no longer have computers so huge that they fill entire floors of a building. It just means …
Also tagged: technology, computers, petabyte, mega computers, morning reading
hackaday.com » Hack a Day - Sep 5, 2008
[Cory Doctorow] obtained access to a few data centers that deal in petabyte storage. The demand for data storage and processing doesn’t show any sign of stopping. It’s especially relevant when people need the resources …
Also tagged: news, data, storage, computers, cern, data centers, petabyte, petacenter
The biggest growth in science fiction publishing these days, hands down, is happening in the young adult market, and that's great news. While the "real" science fiction publishers are chasing a shrinking — and graying …
Also tagged: books, top, demographics, john scalzi, point, dale peck, scott westerfield, young adult science fiction
Tor.com continued their amazing series of original stories yesterday with a new novella by Little Brother's Cory Doctorow, entitled The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away. Go and read it; if it's …
Also tagged: tor com, creative commons fiction, the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
allthingsd.com » Voices - Jul 30, 2008
By Cory Doctorow, Blogger, BoingBoing This month’s announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the …
Also tagged: music, p2p, piracy, voices, boingboing, file sharing, recording industry
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bookstores, book reviews and events in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland - washingtonpost.com - Jul 25, 2008
Rescued from a London slum, 17-year-old Ivy begins posing as an artist's model for her savior, a minor painter and neighbor to a Pre-Raphaelite master. Sound like a fairy tale?
Also tagged: london, about, life, san francisco, the, adult, young, on, novels, george orwell, ferris bueller, u s department of homeland security, fringes, carl jung, mary quattlebaum, melissa marr, kathi appelt, marcus yallow, julie hearn
writerswrite.com » Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog - Jul 16, 2008
Cory Doctorow discusses writing for the young adult audience in an interesting essay. First of all, YA SF is gigantic and invisible. The numbers speak for themselves: a YA bestseller is likely to be moving ten times …
Remember how we called the Locus Awards "possibly the most democratic" of the science fiction awards? Well, uh, never mind. The Locus Awards changed their rules after everyone had already voted, making Locus Magazine …
Also tagged: awards, elizabeth bear, locus awards, connie willis, kathleen ann goonan, david moles
tvsquad.com » TV Squad - Jul 9, 2008
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Video, Angel, Friday Night Lights, Reality-Free I've said it before, I'm a sucker for a series that casts actors from my favorite shows. It's really all it takes to get me …
Also tagged: tnt, smith, timothy hutton, leverage, aldis hodge, john rogers, beth riesgraf, christian kane, gina bellman, global frequency, miranda zero, vengeance unlimited