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Episode 68 - Hockey Musical? I Got Chills, They're Multiplyin'

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Show Notes Full Dysclosure Canada CBC online content governed by US copyright law . Canadian Gov’t buys into the ACTA mantra. The players trying to expose the ACTA legislation worldwide. PVR owners in Canada going through the roof since 2008. Raise  your hands in air and wave’em like you’re changing channels ? Canadian Coca-Cola doc getting a flat reception in Atlanta. Score: The Musical … I wouldn’t have believed it. Correction – I don’t want to. International Google owners start to divest and folks wonder why. Are open source advocates jumping off the Google train? Will Mozilla switch default search if enough Bing Bing gets thrown their way? New mp3 DNA  to add lyrics, links and notes … but what else ? Mobile Mashup Is 2010 the time for Canadians to stop fearing their mobile providers ? iPad using a microSIM and no one knows why. Nokia tries to burst Apple’s bubble of claiming number one status in sales . Websites of the Week Anth goes a reading Fresh Yarns on the web. Andr

DyscultureD Dyscussions 2 - iPad NSFW... No Sucka Fanboys Wanted

( direct link to mp3 ) I would have told you, before recording this special midweek DyscultureD Dyscussions podcast, that we weren’t going to speak too highly of the iPad. I was wrong. Andrew Currie and myself were right cynical bastards. You’d be well warned to bring earmuffs when listening to this one.

Episode 67 - TV Is For People That The Internet Has Left Behind

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Show Notes Full Dysclosure Canadian against proroguing Parliament rallies contradict some Slacktivism. Canadians helping Haiti and how could we possibly be cynical about this? National Film Board’s nfb.ca has some impressive stats on its first birthday. The White House iTunes app v. Gov’t of Canada mobile site . Will Barack hide bad news behind Apple’s Tablet announcement? Have teens become the new meme of blog style experts ? French journalists isolate themselves with only Facebook and Twitter . UK MPs banned from viewing ACTA proposals. Nokia phones to provide turn-by-turn worldwide . Demonoid drops signups … opens itself to all. Websites of the Week Anthony – Simplyscripts.com Andrew – jbak.ru – more of an app than the site to download it from. Music from our new friends at Nettwerk Records it’s Howling Bells … somehow we thought they were Australian… apparently they’re from London, England… oh, well. From their latest CD Radio Wars it’s Cities Burning Down .

Episode 66 - Slacktivists of the World, De-slack!

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Show Notes Full Dysclosure Little Trouble in Big China for Google? Canadian in Haiti rubble texts Ottawa for help . Bostonians arrested for recording police arrests. Municipalities however, want to record everything you’re doing. Some additional reasons to hate ACTA . OiNK torrent founder is not guilty of piracy in London. Rush to evolve past recording full albums. Movies So much for piracy in Canada as box office record set in 2009. And we don’t always agree with the critics’ picks. Ghostbusters 3 in the works and I feel liked I’ve been slimed. James Cameron branded as Anti-American . Coke threatens Concordia for showing Human Rights documentary . Are the Twilight films racist and should we care? Websites of the Week Andrew – Protest Proroguing with Facebook Anthony – Go retroland and become awash in nostalgia. Music Bell Orchestre – “Stripes” thanks to the band and our friends at Arts & Crafts Records

Episode 65 - The Bleeding Eyeball Snow

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Show Notes Full Dysclosure CES – Tablets and Readers and 3D … WHO CARES? Aronofsky says Robocop lives and dies in 2D . WIND Canada set to bring in new handsets . The Google Nexus brings age old Euro marketing to North America . France to tax Google to fund music labels. Mashable the ultimate in “ blogs will eat themselves “? Geist’s Top Ten List of Canada tech policy changers. Charlie Angus’ letter to Tony Clement on Net Neutrality. NFB iPhone app actually does rate better in Canada . Interview Jonnie Penn from The Buried Life , about to go live on MTV next week. Websites of the Week Anthony – Wizard of Odds – for all your best gambling information. Andrew – Formspring.me – social networking with 20Q or more. Music Jason Collett – “Love is a Dirty Word” from his upcoming CD “Rat a Tat Tat”

Episode 64 - Basil Rathbone Eats Snatch

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Show Notes Full Dysclosure http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=260348091419&ref=nf [2:17:48 PM] Anthony Marco: http://www.canada.com/news/Amazon+Christmas+book+sales+beat+print+sales/2385893/story.html [2:17:57 PM] Anthony Marco: http://www.canada.com/business/wireless+entrant+looms+Public+mobile+plans+cost+service/2375536/story.html [2:18:06 PM] Anthony Marco: http://www.canada.com/technology/Mixed+reviews+Wind+Mobile/2356890/story.html [2:18:19 PM] Anthony Marco: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iYH0BfV4LCK0zKrEltWfib9VYAiA [2:18:32 PM] Anthony Marco: http://torrentfreak.com/six-ways-file-sharers-will-neutralize-3-strikes-100102/ [2:18:41 PM] Anthony Marco: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre1976 Canadian Facebook users going “ antirouge ” on the government. Ebooks beat Real books with holiday shoppers. New wireless entrant set to hit the Canadian market… cheaper plans on the way? Intermittent Wind from Canada’s newest existing provid