Episode 168 - Suck Your Own Egg

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Canada-duh

• OpenMedia to bring spectrum auction issues to a wider audience.
• A dystopian future for Canada’s Internet.
• TPP — another acronym to be afraid of.
• “Storied” Canadian Indie publisher gobbled up by Bertelsmann AG.

Copyfight

• Some of the stuff that should have entered the public domain on January 1st but didn’t.
• From the obvious department: “Hollywood must build a better BitTorrent.”
• Another petition to stop SOPA. From Hollywood Unions.

Goin’ Mobile

• Activism comes to Android with Boycott SOPA app.
• Upstart Canadian carrier Mobilicity is becoming a train wreck. Social data too? Jesus…
• Barnes & Noble an unlikely hero in pushback to Microsoft protection racket — some background and the latest developments.

AppleAppleApple

• Siri to dominate CES? Mmkay…
• Why Canada should care about iPhone for T-Mobile USA.
• Anybody catch This American Life recently?

Pew-Pew!

• Bell assigns escort service number to 11 year-old girl.
• The consequences of nanny-ware.
• That’s so ghetto!
• Thumbs up to Virgin Mobile.
• Bring on the thumbrive media players.
• No bananas for your Apples.
• Your Jo Blo link of the week.

Shout-outs

• Get it right: YAY-zhay YAR-masch.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• A classic from Jamendo this week, Leslie Hunt with her track American Dream Man.

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