The link to ruinediphone.com, aka fuckyourogers.com,
has been attracting a lot of attention with close to 30,000 angry citizens signing the online petition expressing their outrage over the usurious Rogers/Fido voice and data plans for the iPhone in Canada.
While it is doubtful the delivery of the petition on July 11 will actually result in Ted Rogers […]

The New York Times reports that veteran commercial producer, audio archivist and media guru, Tony Schwartz, has passed away at the age of 84.
Schwartz was perhaps best known for the famous “Daisy” ad that ran once in the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign and clinched the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.

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But Schwartz was more […]

Gizmodo has a post about an upcoming release of a Slingbox app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Go the Gizmodo post to watch a video of it in action - it’s pretty fucking cool.
For those of you unfamiliar with Slingbox (and their other related products) it is essentially a way of connecting you with […]

In his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man, famed media scholar Marshall McLuhan wrote these words:

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights […]

Hopefully most of you missed what happened to these pages earlier today.

I’d been messing around with GoogleAds and AdBrite yesterday - just trying out a few things - seeing what might work and what might not in an effort to subtly eke out a few bucks from this daffy exercise of mine.
But I fucked up.
I […]

Susan Crawford wrote a great post today with respect to Bell Canada’s position that they own the internet and thus get to scour every red cent out of it - even if it means fucking everybody else - drawing very accurate comparisons between Bell Canada’s position today with that of AT&T back in the days […]

Gizmodo proclaims today is the 30th Birthday of SPAM - not the tasty yummy delicious canned luncheon meat - the commercial electronic shite which clutters our online lives.

Thirty years ago, on this day, you came into the world as a little misguided e-mail sent by an equipment engineer over Arpanet to promote a new line […]

I’ve been reading about Cause Caller on various BoingBoing posts but haven’t dug deeper into the story to see what it could do - until today. It’s freakin’ awesome!Talk about the emerging power of social media via the internet.
What is Cause Caller?
It’s a web-based VoIP application combined with a wiki of causes […]

It’s not big huge Earth shattering news, and certainly came as no surprise to creator Jill Gollick, when Facebook deleted the profiles of her characters from her online social media saga “Story2Oh!” - what was most disappointing was how it all transpired.

Facebook just deleted the profiles for Ali Barrett, Simon Beals, Devon Ross and […]

Ars Technica reports on the recent filing by Wireless Nomad to the CRTC calling for it to force Bell from using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to throttle P2P traffic.

Bell has been using such traffic shaping techniques on its own network since last year, but in March 2008, it expanded its filtering to encompass resellers of […]