Danny O’Brien — formerly of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, co-founder of the Open Rights Group and legendary UK net-culture zine NTK — is interviewed in this Shift-Run-Stop podcast about the early history of NTK and British geekdom.
Incidentally, when we emailed Danny to invite him on the show we told him we expect it to be like when Scotty showed up unexpectedly on Star Trek TNG. The experienced engineer has some ideas about how things should be run which caused a bit of friction down in Engineering, but Geordie eventually had to admit that the old man knew what he was doing and could even teach him a thing or two. Danny replied saying he thought it’d be more like when Jamie returned to Doctor Who wearing a kilt, and no one could remember who he was.
“They stole our revolution, now we’re stealing it back.” And now they’re letting us rent it off them for 41 minutes. Vive la revolution!
(via Oblomovka)