Monday December 6, 2010
"Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More"
Sunday December 5, 2010
I remember him being detained at Newark earlier in the year, before Wikileaks became such a hot topic. A member of cDc, the Tor project and now apparently on the run in the US (taken with a grain of salt)
With some quite hard questions and interesting responses, the highlight being:
"We were the free speech ISP in Australia. An Australian Anti-church of Scientology website was hounded out of Victoria University by legal threats from California, and hounded out of a lot of places. Eventually they came to us.
People were fleeing from ISPs that would fold under legal threats, even from a cult in the U.S. That’s something I saw early on, without realizing it: potentiating people to reveal their information, creating a conduit. Without having any other robust publisher in the market, people came to us."
Thursday November 25, 2010
Ben Graham talks to Michael Moorcock about his new Dr Who tie-in The Coming Of The Terraphiles, Hawkwind, Ballard and Burroughs - on The Quietus.
Monday March 16, 2009
Novelist, magician and 'guru of the graphic novel' Alan Moore talks to Steve Rose about Watchmen, the dark side of Hollywood and the morality of pornography