Cory Doctorow
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"Cory Efram Doctorow" is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post scarcity/post-scarcity economics.

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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

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This is a fascinating phenomenon that evolved through the unexpected use of technology. It classically illustrates the way people find their own uses for technology.

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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

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[What is the new is the creative process involved in producing a blook.] Blogs encourage their authors to publish in small, partially formed chunks, ... Previously, such jottings might have been kept in the author's notebook but something amazing happens when you post them online: readers help you connect them, flesh them out and grow them into fully-fledged books or blooks.

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But this is just the start of something much bigger.

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Blooks differ from books in several ways.

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Previously, such jottings might have been kept in the author's notebook but something amazing happens when you post them online. Readers help you connect them, flesh them out and grow them into fully-fledged books or blooks.

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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.

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All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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There are people already sharing eBooks out there, ... and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook.

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