{"id":720,"date":"2004-01-05T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/05\/read-this-cory-doctorow\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:47:52","slug":"read-this-cory-doctorow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/05\/read-this-cory-doctorow\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Wants to Be Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve started looking at blogs, I&#8217;ve kept my eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>, in part because of my fondness for the techgeek magazine of the same name from about a decade ago, which was sort of the halfway node between <I>Wired<\/I> and <I>Mondo 2000<\/I>.  Today <A href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/policy\/2003\/02\/24\/perspectives.html\">Cory Doctorow<\/A>, the primary author of the site, mentioned that one of his short stories had been picked up for two science-fiction anthologies, and in digging down for detail, I discovered that he&#8217;s made his work available online for free through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons<\/A> license.  That includes the short story collection <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/place\"><I>A Place So Foreign and Eight More<\/I><\/a> and the novel <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/down\"><I>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom<\/I><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The more I poke around the CC website, the more the concept makes sense to me, and Doctorow&#8217;s license seems to be a really great success story for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve started looking at blogs, I&#8217;ve kept my eye on BoingBoing, in part because of my fondness for the techgeek magazine of the same name from about a decade ago, which was sort of the halfway node between Wired and Mondo 2000. Today Cory Doctorow, the primary author of the site, mentioned that one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}