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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'corydoctorow'

May 31, 2007

There are things that go on in this city at night that are far weirder than the leather-clad teenagers on Queen West. Did you know that vampires stalk High Park? Or that Toronto Police Services crossed into another dimension to investigate a suspicious death? No? Then you should check out Karen Bennett’s Fantastic Toronto project. Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing drew our attention to Bennett's labour of love. Bennett, a writer, photographer, panelist, and......

Continue Reading "Magic, Monsters and Metro Hall"

January 30, 2007

Cory Doctorow, editor of BoingBoing, author of many books (including Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town), and former Torontonian, will be in his hometown and our fair city on Thursday February First, promoting his new collection of short stories Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. The event will be at 7pm at Bakka Books (697 Queen Street West), the world’s oldest science fiction bookstore. Cory started......

Continue Reading "Cory Doctorow Comes To Town"

March 13, 2006

It's old news now, but just in case you didn't hear, Boing Boing editor and former Torontonian Cory Doctorow is one of three judges for the 2006 Blooker prize. The Lulu Blooker prize is awarded to the best non-fiction, fiction and comic books inspired by a blog (or blog turned into books). The most impressive title on the short list, in Torontoist's humble opinion is Julie Powell's Julie and Julia, the New York secretary that......

Continue Reading "Blogs, Books and Beyond"

November 11, 2004

The remarkable people over at BoingBoing have been going all kinds of nuts over a possible Internet levy right here in Canada, and they're not even Canadian. We won't even deign to rephrase the argument that Cory Doctorow so eloquently puts forth (read all three BB posts if you have the time). Let us just say we agree, and we recommend signing the petition to make Canadian Heritage listen up! There's also an online petition......

Continue Reading "The Internets Need Our Help"

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