February 20, 2023 / Cory Doctorow / Articles, News, Podcast. This week on my podcast, I read my Pluralistic blog post, Tiktok’s enshittification, which sets out a kind of master theory of enshittification, illustrated by Tiktok’s platform dynamics. Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users
July 24, 2022 / Cory Doctorow / Articles, News, Podcast. This week on my podcast, I read “Why none of my books are available on Audible,”. a short audiobook I produced to be distributed through Amazon’s ACX platform, explaining how that platform’s sloppy rights verification and mandatory DRM screws over writers.Chapter 4. Marcus is reshackled and rehooded, then moved again. He realizes he's been put on a ship. He's terrified. Like, he's seriously scared about leaving American shores. But the journey is short—though it feels like an hour, it actually only takes fifteen minutes (Marcus tells us this from his retrospective narrative position in the
Interview with ResonanceFM Part 2. July 11, 2009 / Cory Doctorow / News, Podcast. The English Arts Council’s Rachel Baker and Charles Beckett came by my office last week to interview me for local radio station ResonanceFM, covering a lot of ground. They broke the interview into five parts for airing and their podcast.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Part 018. May 12, 2009 / Cory Doctorow / Podcast. Here’s part eighteen of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. MP3 Link. Tags: someonecomestotownreading.