Well, I’m off for a week-and-chage-worth of holidays in a couple hours — I really need it! I’ll see you again in ten days or so.
Meanwhile, here’s my schedule for the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston this Labor Day — hope to see you:
* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2:
4PM: Unlimited Access: Issues involving unlicensed access to spectrum. With Harold Feld from the the Media Access Project.
* FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3:
10AM: Group reading from The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
11AM: Locus Award ceremony
5PM: Drunk on Technology: With Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Charlie Stross
* SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4:
12PM: The End of Copyright: Can the Arts Survive the Digital Age? With Charlie Petit, Daniel Grotta, Steve Miller, and James M. Turner
1PM: Tradeoffs between Freedom, Security, and Privacy. With Joseph Lazzaro, Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Don Sakers
2:30-3PM: Charlie Stross and I will be signing our new short novel, Rapture of the Nerds, just published in the new issue of Argosy Magazine, at the Borderlands Books table in the Dealers’ Room
5PM: Postcapitalist Social Mechanisms. With M. M. Buckner, David Friedman, Benjamin Rosenbaum and Charlie Stross
* SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5:
10:30AM Ebooks: Neither E Nor Books. A recapitulation of my talk at the O’Reilly Emerging Tech Conference
4PM: Reading
5PM: Sign at the Asimov’s Magazine table in the Dealer’s Room
* MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6:
11AM: Kaffeeklatsch
12-12:30: International Copyright Issues