10 days ago by Clayton Neuman

The Internet entrepreneur and author of the bestselling Little Brother discusses his latest novel, Makers, a nd what distinguishes his work from the cyberpunk of William Gibson. Q: Where did you come up with the idea for Makers? A: It's funny, I started off thinking I was writing a parable about the ...

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32 days ago by kim

I'm not a big fan of Stephen King's, but some time ago I'd heard good things about his non-fiction work, On Writing . I recently got to it on my Amazon queue, and got through this week. The book is half autobiography, half instruction manual. The first half of the book recounts tales of his childhoo ...

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51 days ago by Zuckervati

Interesting point. Also, it brings up a very good point referenced in the Little Brother novel: what happens when a government organization puts out its own version of ParanoidLinux in an attempt to snare those who think they need it? It's not the "there are already too many distributions" argument ...

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80 days ago by Steve Lesem

With all due respect to Cory Doctorow, he's wrong. In his article Not every cloud has a silver lining ( Guardian) he states: There's something you won't see mentioned by too many advocates of cloud computing - the main attraction is making money from you. And I suppose all the vendors of physical st ...

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80 days ago by Dietrich T. Schmitz

A recent anti-cloud computing rant in the Guardian raises a good point, but the author's vision of what the cloud is and where it's going is a bit, er, cloudy. If you get your cloud information from enterprise IT vendors and not Web 2.0 hustlers, then the picture gets a lot clearer. By Jon Stokes | ...

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105 days ago by Tama

Links for August 6th 2009 through August 14th 2009: Gaiman and Doctorow Discuss Giving It Away [Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy] – A few short questions with Doctorow and Gaimain about the usefulness (and profitability) of giving books away for free online. This quote from Neil Gaiman about gi ...

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108 days ago by Peter Hall

Filed under: News/Reactions Over at AMC's SciFi Scanner blog, author John Scalzi takes a look at the five nominees for 2009's Hugo Award for Best Novel and examines the chances any of them will one day be adapted into a film. It's an interesting perspective on how a studio may view a popular science ...

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118 days ago by Eph-Bomb

Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day! Today is Systems Administrators Appreciation Day. This always makes me think of When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (available to read for free on the internets!) a story about the brave souls who keep the internet going after an apocalyptic disease outbreak. It’s an insp ...

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122 days ago by kim

I've been following the Kindle with some interest for a while. I *really* want one, but not as long as it's as closed a model as they are currently pursuing. I want to get e-books from other places, and I'd like an RSS reader please... which really means an open development platform so that RSS read ...

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122 days ago by kim

I've been following the Kindle with some interest for a while. I *really* want one, but not as long as it's as closed a model as they are currently pursuing. I want to get e-books from other places, and I'd like an RSS reader please... which really means an open development platform so that RSS read ...

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