Charlie Stross

Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire

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Why Microsoft Word must die

I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not dissimilar ...

Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques

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Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

A nation of slaves

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The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash

Firstly, the Apple vs. Adobe vendetta gets even nastier, with a public letter from Steve Jobs explaining why Adobe's Flash multimedia format will not ever be allowed into the garden of pure ideology that is the iPhone/iPad fork of OSX.

To the Pirate Bay: a modest proposal

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"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."

So, the US Secret Service has issued a requirement for software that can detect sarcasm in tweets . And lo, there was much rejoicing in the land, especially among post-doc researchers looking for grant money to pursue research in algorithmic applications of semiotics with a side-line in heuristic knowledge processing…

A different cluetrain

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I'm calling this Bubble 2.0, and it's ready to burst

The smart, fashionable startup-people these days are all trying to come up with brilliant and innovative new business models that disrupt struggling industries and synergize for break-out growth potential forming new markets. (Ahem. At least that's what they say.)

The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms

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Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?

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Cutting their own throats

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Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034

This should be titled Keynote talk for YAPC::NA 2014 . What's up with the title?

What Amazon's ebook strategy really means

It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry.

Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released

We promised it, and here it is (slightly delayed by a signing tour and epic-level jet lag): "The Rapture of the Nerds" by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross is available as a Creative Commons licensed download right here: The Rapture of the Nerds .

Did somebody just try to buy the British government?

Hansard is the official printed transcript of the proceedings of the houses of parliament — in other words, the working log of the British government.

The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) (Charles Stross)

The continual plaint in newspapers around the world is that the news media are in big trouble. Au contraire: what's in trouble is their monetization model.

Charlie Stross on Common Misconceptions About Publishing: Ebooks

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