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Trademarks Publish Date: Aug. 14, 2003
Cory Doctorow, who works with the EFF, wrote this article on the heels of a rash of trademark incidents that he's encountered. His point of view in this opinion piece is that trademark and copyright are supposed to promote expression. He doesn't write about any specific details of particular cases; rather, he restates an overview of these issues that serves as his guiding light.
Amish for QWERTY Publish Date: Jul. 9, 2003
I learned to type before I learned to write. The QWERTY keyboard layout is hard-wired to my brain. But last week, my pride got pricked. I was brung low by a phone. I'm 31, and suddenly I'm obsolete. Or at least Amish.
Cory Doctorow's View of ETech Publish Date: Apr. 23, 2003
ETech committee member, SciFi writer, and free rights technologist Cory Doctorow wields his digital camera at the Emerging Technology Conference. Here is a selection of his images from day one.
What to Do About Spam? Publish Date: Aug. 6, 2002
Cory Doctorow believes that technologies such as Vipul's Razor will succeed in eliminating spam, a view that Bruce Sterling challenged in his recent talk at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.
My Blog, My Outboard Brain Publish Date: May. 31, 2002
Cory Doctorow explains how blogging has given direction and reward to his "knowledge grazing," creating a repository that helps him connect the dots in the flow of information around him. This column is an excerpt from the upcoming O'Reilly book Essential Blogging.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Panopticon Publish Date: Mar. 8, 2002
Remember when searching the Internet was hard, the dark days when we relied on dumb-as-sand machines to rank the documents that matched our keywords? Cory Doctorow says it really sucked, until Google figured out the One True Way to make sense of the Internet.
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