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 […]

Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing posted about Matt Mason’s Pirate’s Dilemma, a book about our current culture of piracy. Seems the book is being turned into a series with the help of Jesse Alexander (”Heroes” and “Lost”) and here’s the trailer:

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Cheers.
P. S. Today is a holiday here in Canada and that means I […]

Fuck You Rogers.
No - that isn’t me on my usual tirade; it’s an actual website where people have been signing on to a petition and statement of intent that says simply: “We love the iPhone but Rogers is fucked in the head.”
Check it out.
Sign your name.
Tell Ted Rogers - and Steve Jobs - that […]

Stephen Fry recently gave a speech on behalf of the BBC and he has reproduced it for his podcast as Episode 4: Broadcasting.
You should listen to it for a number of reasons: Stehen Fry is a wonderful speaker and writer, he is an admiringly geeked out technophile and he is probably one of […]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
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 […]

Head on over to Michael Geist’s blog and have a read on how the U.S. media lobby and political pressure from Washington was exerted on the compliant Harper government to create Bill C-61 - Canada’s own DMCA.

Sources say that emboldened by the successful campaign for anti-camcording legislation, U.S. officials upped the ante at the Security […]

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 […]

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 […]

I found out about the National Conference for Media Reform through Susan Crawford’s blog. She spoke there yesterday and today Bill Moyers gave his talk and I’ve posted it here for you.

By all means check out the full site for the conference because it’s informative and inspiring. Moyers, of course, possesses the ability […]

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 […]