This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Why ebooks’ success has nothing to do with screen quality http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/03/cory-doctorow-you-do-like-reading-off.html

#15yrsago DRM causes 75 percent of tech support calls https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/03/75-percent-customer-problems-caused-by-drm/

#10yrsago Average Congresscritter gets 1,452% raises when they turn corporate lobbyist https://www.republicreport.org/2012/make-it-rain-revolving-door/

#5yrsago Bruce Sterling’s SXSW 2017 keynote: what should humans do? https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/03/bruce-sterling-speech-sxsw2017/

#5yrsago New York 2140: Kim Stanley Robinson dreams vivid about weathering climate crisis https://memex.craphound.com/2017/03/18/new-york-2140-kim-stanley-robinson-dreams-vivid-about-weathering-climate-crisis/

#1yrago Aviation bailout cost $666k/job https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/news-worthy/#aa

#1yrago Help news, not news-barons https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/news-worthy/#big-news

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now…