We had a fantastic interview with Cory Doctorow, blogger at Boing Boing, Internet activist, and author of Makers, Little Brother and other excellent novels that routinely keep me up until 4 in the morning.

Thanks to Cory for coming, the gang at World2Worlds for hosting and providing media streaming, and the Copper Robot community for coming ’round and participating. I only wish we could have talked longer.

During the interview, Cory kindly offered to come back in the spring, when his new novel, For The Win, comes out. I responded, “Um, uh, thanks, I definitely want to have you back but I don’t like to repeat guests more than once a year.” That was the sound of me being an idiot. Of course I’ll be happy to have Cory back in the spring.

I used to be able to get together with Cory a couple of times a year, back when he lived in Los Angeles. We haven’t been able to do that since he moved to London, and I forgot how pleasant it was to speak with him.

My wife reminded me that when you talk to Cory, he makes you smarter than you thought you were, which is entirely a great feeling. It’s also rare. Cory is a genius, which is rare enough–but that quality of making you smarter, and feeling smarter, is rare even among geniuses.

He dialed in early for the final tech rehearsal, and we just started talking, and kept going through the show, which was lovely–although at times the crew at World2Worlds were pulling out their hair, as I was so engrossed in the conversation that I was less responsive to certain important IMs than I should have been.

I’ll get to work editing the podcast soon. I’m woefully behind on podcast editing–my life has been far too interesting recently.

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