Dyscultured

The Show Notes full dysclosure CBC layoffs Canadian Spy “Ghost”busters Video Games for Developing Countries Twitter goes for bucks Facebook gives in on layout Skype is #1 for International Calls Pirate Ship Gets a Cloaking Device Websites of the Week Backtype – Aggregate and archive all of your public comments 1889.ca – The home of the creator of YTV’s Rollbots and other creations Music Danny Michel – Feather, Fur & Fin

The Show Notes full dysclosure The Sound Of Cylons:  Battlestar Ends Copy This, Paste That –  iPhone 3.0 Announced Who’s The Twit Now? – Twitter Hoax Unleashed Who Cares? – Internet Explorer 8 Unleashed Facebook Gets A Faceift Hunter Becomes The Hunted – ISOHunt On Trial RIP This – New Film Manifests Success wheel of pop Superheroes On TV musical selection Jason Collett (courtesy of Arts & Crafts)

Some of you may be wondering where this week’s episode of DyscultureD is. Well, there are several reasons why, and we’ll leave it up to you as to whther you believe one, some, or all of the following dysfunctional excuses: Mike was called away to a Tweetup in Prague. Anth was held hostage in a hotel in Toronto. Mike and Anth retreated into a rented loft space to practice their routine for the upcoming tryouts of So You Think You Can Dance Saskatoon? The team is working on a revamp of the DyscultureD website. Anth, being a teacher, refuses to do anything on March Break but watch old episodes of Roger Ramjet and Buck Rogers. Mike was called into action by a secret society to retrieve the lost wishbone of St. Hubert. Regardless of how many of these very reasonable excuses you choose to believe, rest assured DyscultureD will be back next week with the finest and most dysturbing pop culture news for Canadians. So say we all.

Upon reading a post on Michael Geist’s blog about how the CRTC seems to be considering adopting the .ca domain standard as a filter to determine Canadian content on the web , I had the the following to say: A government or government agency’s protectionist attitudes on the web are, at best, misguided and, at worst, breaching on censorship. There is a reason it’s called the world wide web, and why the ubiquitous prefix “www” has become standard; the web will not be constrained without pushback to outright revolution. Cancon is an outdated notion in all media. In as much as I would love to see quality programming come from Canadian networks and independent television stations, they try to follow a US model that is borne on billions of advertising dollars. The CRTC is quite willing to have Canadian networks buy up US shows and make money off of Canadian advertising, while censoring viewers’ choices to watch US network feeds if they wish. As a web parallel, I know that even though I may g

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