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 […]

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It’s a special Bill C-61 Round-Up Day!
Round-Up Day? Yes! The last day of the week where we collect the best or most interesting posts you might have missed from previous days. I’ve been remiss in keeping these pages up to date and for that I […]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
Yup, it’s Round-Up Day here at the ol’ Millsworks blog but instead of giving you a fat list of my past posts here’s my coverage on the newly introduced Canadian Copyright Bill C-61.
We knew it was coming, we knew they were gonna try and sugar-coat it and we […]

It’s official.
I am now accessing the net through my new TekSavvy DSL connection and it is superbly fast, delightfully cheap and comes with no limits on my bandwidth usage. I highly recommend them.
I’ve been with Rogers for years and was constantly bitching and complaining about their inconsistent speeds, arbitrary capping of bandwidth, throttling of […]

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 […]

The Canadian government is secretly negotiating via the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
Michael Geist reports on this and you can find the leaked document in […]

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 […]

You should just go read Michael Geist’s blog on a regular basis - but in case you don’t: here’s a quick run down on what he’s been posting lately:

IP Caucus Rolls Out Welcome Mat for the U.S.
Sources indicate that the Parliamentary IP Caucus, co-chaired by Liberal MP Dan McTeague and Conservative Gord Brown, plan […]

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 […]

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 […]