There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is the recording of the live interview I conducted with Cory Doctorow at the New America Foundation (where I now work.) We talked mostly about his new essay collection, “Context” but as usual the conversation ranged widely from there, especially when we opened up to audience questions.

My thanks to both Cory for his time and John Taylor Williams for getting me this audio.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is a conversation I had with my friend and friend of the podcast, Chris Miller, about digital scofflaws, inspired by Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” documentary.

Update: My guest, Chris Miller, assembled some more in-depth notes on our discussion when he re-shared this episode on his blog.

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In the intro I mentioned Chris Miller’s post about info-suicide and my thoughts on the passing of Steve Jobs.

Listener feedback this time was from Charles who also supplied a follow up, Chris Miller, and Kevin.

The feature this week is an interview with int 0×80, the MC of the hip-hop, nerd core group, Dual Core.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is what I thought might be a delightful surprise, where a frequent guest of the podcast over these past six years interviews me in honor of my recent podcast anniversary. In the interview, Data General’s mini-computers figured prominently in my early memories. In discussion of adversity and its role in pedagogy, I refer to Spolsky’s Law of Leaky Abstraction. In considering the future cost of technology choices, my interviewer referred to the Final Cut Pro X kerfuffle. The MC Chris hit, Fett’s Vette was suggested in response to my Dad’s ’63 Corvette which he has to this day. Robert Asprin’s Myth Adventures books were some of the earliest genre fiction in which my mom got me interested. All of my enjoyment of science fiction was inspired by her.

Towards the end of the interview, we chatted about one of the higher profile projects, Commotion, at my new day job. I gave the example of AWMN as a mesh that did and still does do more than just share internet access. Turning to the state of podcasting, I cited Nathan Lowell as an excellent example of an author who both gets the power of different media and who has used newer media to incrementally build modest success. My other podcast, with which I am experiencing trouble getting into iTunes, is the Living Proof Brew Cast.

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In the intro, a heads up that there will be no shows on the 25th and the 29th because of Balticon.

There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview with Tiffany Rad. We talk about her background in education, the law and hacking as well as the hacker space she co-founded, Reverse Space. ReverseSpace is just one hacker space in the DC area, like HacDC. You cand find hacker spaces near you on the site, Hacker Spaces. Tiffany has spoke and participated too at hacker cons like BlackHat and DEF CON. To learn more you can join the  Google Group for ReverseSpace.

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The feature this week is a conversation I had with Chris Miller about our respective recent job and career changes. Chris has appeared on this podcast once or twice before. He also is part of The Secret Lair and From Python Import Podcast. You cand find more about him at his main site. Our conversation followed some of the same threads that I discussed previously in my nowhere to go rant and my recent Inner Chapter on personal growth.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview I conducted with rapper and song writer, Dan Bull. You can learn a little more about him from his Wikipedia page. I also strongly recommend checking out his YouTube channel. In the course of the interview we mention his WikiLeaks video and we discuss his entry into iris’ Urgent Genius contest. You can help Dan with that contest by watching his Shaun of the Dead Island remix video.

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The feature this week is an interview I conducted with Gabriella Coleman.  I was introduced to her work through her writings at The Atlantic.  She mentions Malcom Gladwell’s criticism of online activism and Indy Media.  The main reason I invited her on was her critique of Bruce Sterling’s The Blast Shack.  We delve a bit further into the question of WikiLeaks lasting impacts.  I mention a couple of times Clay Shirky’s long haul view.  Gabriella recommends Adrian Johns’ book on piracy (which I ordered with a gift card I received recently, can’t wait to read it).  She also mentions a revisit of the topic of WikiLeaks at The Economist.  You can also find Gabriella on Twitter where she is quite active and sharing some great links related to topics we discuss in this interview and of course her broader work.

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Thanks to Simon, John, and Duane for their support through BitCoin and to Wild Biker for his generous year end donation.

There is no new hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature.

The feature this week is my interview with Jon Spriggs about his new project, cchits.net.  In the course of the interview we mention Hacman, Glyn Moody, PRS going after a barber, the singing shop worker who also got snared by a performance rights complaint, The Bug Cast, Music Manumit, James Corachea, SoX, Festival, ur1.ca, my interview with Evan Prodromou, Open Database License, and Open Street Maps.

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The feature this week is my interview with Cory Doctorow about his newly launched anthology, “With a Little Help“.  Look for an article soon at Publishers Weekly from Cory about the experimental nature of the project so far.  Russell Galen is Cory’s agent who included a piece in the anthology.  Ideo’s innovation platform is OpenIdeo.  Even after fifteen editions, editors are still correcting typos in Steven Brust’s “The Phoenix Guards“.  Not all anthologies have the long commercial life of J.D. Salinger’s “Frenny and Zooey“.  John Berry is the renowned typographer with whom Cory has worked.  The book club anthology Cory mentions is “Godlike Machines“, another one edited by Jonathan Strahan.  The chap book Cory mentions will be from PM Press.  Here is James Boyles’ call for evidence based policy.  When we are talking about Google Editions, I mention Ryan Singel’s coverage at Wired and my own inference that Google may be smarting from the Books settlement.  Cory linked on BoingBoing to a video of a British student involved with the protests eloquently calling for social justice.  Cory may finally write an idea that has been bouncing around his head, sort of his response to Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road“.

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The feature this week is my interview with Professor Lewis Hyde about his new book, “Common as Air“.  During the course of the interview, I mention the copyright reform proposals by Jessica Litman and Pamela Samuelson.  Professor Hyde discusses his work at American University on fair use.  He also mentions his collaboration on Oxherding with Max Gimblett.  If you are in New York any time between now and January, go and enjoy the exhibit.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview with one of my very favorite authors, Rudy Rucker. Rudy is also a mathematician and a computer scientist. It was “Spaceland” his notional sequel to “Flatland” that first got me interest in his work. I also was immensely intrigued by his non-fiction work, “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul“, which I’ve reviewed here previously.

In addition to discussing his latest books–the duology, “Postsingular” and “Hylozoic“, and the re-released Ware Tetralogy–we also touch on his thoughts on the limits of VR, chaos and complexity, the state of computing, the role of the alien where Rudy mentions his novel “The Secret of Life“, continuing the story of “Hylozoic” where I mentioned a previous interview with Tor.com on the subject (on page 172 of this PDF, from July of 2009), 3D printing and natural gnarl, and Rudy’s upcoming books.

On the topic of 3D printing, it was Scott Summit’s talk I was thinking of but couldn’t recall. The architect of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Bilbao that Rudy mentioned was Frank Gehry. He also mentioned the design group, Nervous System, who uses the Processing library for their 3D printed objects.

If you want a taste for the story about Turing, Rudy has released three short stories that may make up the first three chapters of a new novel: “The Imitation Game“, “The Skug” and “Tangier Routines“.

Updated: I re-exported the audio for the episode.  I’ve replaced the original audio file with the new version that should fix the missing intro and outro material.

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In the intro, a heads up that changes are coming on two to three weeks as I complete the migration of my podcast production to Linux. A will announce a firm date once I have one and give a better run down of the potential impacts to the listener, hopefully minimal. Also, a clarification on the giveaway of the CD Randy gave me. All you need to do is email me between now and the end of the month and say you’d like the CD. If I get more than one response, I’ll pick one at random. Lastly, I have signed copies of the first two volumes of Ed’s graphic novel, WIZZYWIG. The next person to qualify for a custom nerd merit badge, whether they have one already or not, gets the books.

There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is the interview I recorded with Ed Piskor at the Small Press Expo. In the interview we mention Nedroid (that’s the beartato), 2600, Off the Hook, Ed’s talk at HOPE, the documentary “Freedom Downtime“, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, and Tommy Blacha creator and write of Metalocalypse.

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There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is the interview I recorded with Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle. If you are interested, here are the 2007, 2008, and 2009 interviews as well. In the interview, we mention the Indie Guide web site, Randy and Jason’s columns at Electronic Musician, and TrackMyDisc.com.

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In the intro, a few quick announcements. I will be at Balticon Memorial Day weekend and posting my speaking schedule soon. If you are going to be there, come and say, “Hi”. May’s CopyNight will be next Tuesday, the 25th, with special guest Carl Malamud. Next month’s CopyNight will also have a special guest, Cory Doctorow as it happens. That CopyNight will be June 28th, a Monday. For more details about the DC CopyNight, visit the web site.

Due to the length of the interview, I didn’t get to any listener feedback this week. There also is no new hacker word of the week for the same reason.

The feature this week is an interview with Cory Doctorow discussing the issues explored in his latest book just released from Tor, “For the Win“. I caught up with him over Skype on his current book tour. We mention quite a bit of material, roughly in chronological order:

• “Amerika“
• “English as She Is Spoken“
• Anda’s Game
• Beyond Circumvention, by Ethan Zuckerman
• How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
• It was Michael Weinberg, from Public Knowledge, on This Week in Law who proposed thinking about three strikes with the telephone
• “Content” is the essay collection containing World of Democracycraft
• Facebook is a Utility, All Utilities are Regulated, by Danah Boyd
• Diaspora*, Kickstarter, and Quit Facebook Day
• Jane McGonigal created Superstruct and the other game I couldn’t remember properly is Evoke
• Alice commissioned the award winning game, Smokescreen
• Power Punctuation! in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3
• The Geertz mentioned is anthropologist, Clifford Geertz
• io9 scooped me and has more details on “Rapture of the Nerds“

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In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight here in DC is next Tuesday. Also, an update on the badge experiment. And thanks to Kevin M. and George for their donations this past week.

Listener feedback this week is from Robert. He recommends the radio show and podcast, Media Matters.

The hacker word of the week this week is fat electrons.

The feature this week is an interview with Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at EFF. We discuss the recent ruling in the Al Haramain case, one of the many wrestling with the warrantless wire taps conducted under the Bush administration. I mention my previous interview with EFF’s Rebecca Jeschke about the FISA Amendments Act. I also mention EFF’s resource pages on the Hepting case, the Jewel case, and on this case.

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In the intro, thanks to Robert for his donation. Also an announcement, that there will be no news show this weekend due to time constraints resulting from family and personal commitments.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is fascist .

The feature this week is an interview Josh Stearns of Free Press about the Comcast-NBC acquisition. In it, we mention the Free Press resource page on the deal as well as the page from Comcast. This interview was prompted by an email from Josh about a story I posted on the FCC docket as part of their review of the deal.

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No listener feedback this week.

Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview with cartoonist and animator, Nina Paley, creator of “Sita Sings the Blues“. I’ve spoken and written about Nina’s story before, the troubles clearing her use of Annette Hanshaw’s torch songs that led her to work with Karl Fogel at QuestionCopyright.org. In the course of the interview, we also mention the store for “Sita” merchandise , the creator endorsed mark, “Minute Memes“, the “Sita” soundtrack by Todd Michaelsen, “Sita” on a persistence of vision wheel based display, and Bill Cheswick’s poster made from every frame of “Sita”. Sadly, by the time you hear this, you’ll have missed her talk at AU but I discuss it a bit in the intro to this episode.

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No listener feedback this week.

Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview with Danny O’Brien on ACTA. I was inspired to contact Danny after hearing him on FLOSS Weekly. In the course of the interview, we mention Michael Geist, Knowledge Ecology and Public Knowledge. Visit EFF to learn more about ACTA and the other issues on which Danny is working and take action at their action center.

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It’s part two of an interview my friend, Kevin, conducted for his great podcast, Life After Law School. You can listen to part one here in case you missed it the first time around. I really enjoyed this conversation, Kevin is a thoughtful host and interviewer. He also did a fantastic job on the show notes for both parts. I had no idea I made reference to so many great projects and interesting people.

If anyone else wants an interview, I am always happy to oblige, both during my hiatus (family commitments allowing) and after. Just shoot me a note at feedback@thecommandline.net.

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The video is available in a few formats, including Ogg Theora. It clocks in at just under forty minutes so the HD version is a hefty download. The Ogg and standard definition mpeg versions are much more manageable.

Apologies in advance for the audio, you’ll need to crank it up a bit though I imagine the video may help at softer volumes with understanding Cory’s responses. For those familiar with my previous out of the studio recording struggles, I have a new bit of gear on its way that should help: a Giant Squid Lab mic that I can use as a pair of lavaliers, or clip-on, microphones.

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I am delaying listener feedback until the next feature cast due to the holiday week and the length of the feature.

There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is my third interview with Cory Doctorow in as many years. This time, we speak mostly about his new novel, “MAKERS”. My friend Dan, from Geekadelphia, took some great pictures while we were interviewing. You can see the best of those pictures here and all of my pictures from the entire convention, here.

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If you have a question for Cory that you’d like me to consider including in the interview, please be sure to send it to me at feedback@thecommandline.net before Saturday morning.

If you are going to be at Philcon, feel to drop me a note or come and find me. I’d post a schedule but I am neither a volunteer nor a participant at this convention and I cannot find a programming schedule on their web site.

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In the intro, letting you know that part one of a two part interview with me is up at the Life after Law School podcast.

There is no listener feedback this week.

Due to the length of the feature, there is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is an interview with Randal Schwartz. I first met Randal through his talk on his experience being snared under one of the problematic computer fraud and abuse laws. We don’t discuss that topic in the interview but if you are curious, he recommends his appearance on the Security Catalyst podcast and his interview with Stephen Euin Cobb on the Future and You. Randal also mentions the Squeak by Example book in the interview which is available as a free electronic edition and a print-on-demand edition. You can also hear Randal on the excellent FLOSS Weekly podcast which I also recommend for its consistently superb coverage of free software and open source projects of all varieties.

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No hacker word of the week because of the length of the feature. Also, though I have some listener feedback, I am saving it until next Wednesday for the same reason.

The feature this week is an interview with Beatnik Turtle, actually just Randy Chertkow, one of the band’s members. Although there is no just about Randy if you’ve listened to the past two (Two! It’s a tradition now!) interviews with members of the band.

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In the intro I point out that I have been using Herdict Web for a while now.  I encourage you to check it out, as well.  This is one of the projects Prof. Zittrain has started to tackle the challenges discussed in his book.

Listener Feedback this week is from Nido who sent a link to the Hacking at Random 2009 event coming up in The Netherlands in August.  There’s plenty of time to plan if this is within reasonable travel distance and looks like a great hacker gathering.  They also have an audio promo, which I share, that has all the details.

The hacker word of the week this week is DWIM.

The feature this week is an interview with Harvard Law professor, Jonathan Zittrain, where we discuss his latest book, “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It“, as well as his work more generally.  I mentioned a TED talk given by Clay Shirky during the interview but in searching for the link I was clearly thinking of Shirky’s Web 2.0 Expo talk.  Both talks are worth checking out.

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I forget to mention that the folks who run the superb EFF track at Dragon*Con have a new web site. You can find archival audio and video from last year and this will be the first place to find programming information for this year. They will post links to older archival material as it becomes available.

There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the interview.

The feature this week is an interview with usability expert and interaction architect, Celeste Lyn Paul. Here is the link to her discussion and research in response to the Canonical notification proposal. We also discussed the KDE project, specifically the KDE usability project, and the open usability project.

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The feature this week is an interview with super prolific hacker and entrepreneur, Evan Prodromou. Even may be most known for Wikitravel but has been garnering a lot of attention for Laconi.ca and identi.ca.

No detailed show notes this week since it was an open discussion.

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The feature this week is an interview with indie musician and open source techie, Brad Sucks. He has a brand new album out, “Out of It”, which is a worthy successor to his first album, “i don’t know what i’m doing”. You can preview his music on his site and all of his music is podsafe. Oh, and he publishes the source, too.

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Listener feedback is overdue this week in the form an a lengthy but appreciated email from Walker.

The feature this week is an interview with indie band and all around superb guys, Beatnik Turtle. Mentioned in the show is the awesome companion site, The Indie Band Survival Guide, to go along with Jason’s and Randy’s newly published book. We also mentioned Brad Sucks who as it happens just released his second album.

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