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Beyond UBB
by Nick Glossop on February 4, 2011
The CRTC and Bell Canada should perhaps be thanked for the Usage-Based Billing decision that, earlier this week, sparked a media and political crap-storm. Many Canadians were for the first time prompted to take a hard, and comparative, look at the raw deal they get from the big internet providers who control 96 percent of the market. Their usage caps are low, their rates are high, choice is largely a …
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The Singer of the Egyptian Uprising
by Andrew Loewen on February 4, 2011
According to As’ad Abukhalil, the Egyptian singer whose songs have been most prominently featured over the loudspeakers of Tahrir Square is Abdel-Halim Hafez, who was sometimes known as “The Great Dark Skinned Nightingale.” Perhaps the most celebrated male singer in the Arab world, Abdel Halim grew up poor and rose to national acclaim with a radio performance celebrating the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Republic …
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Visiting a Gallery in the Age of Digital Reproduction
by Cyrus Lewis on February 2, 2011
In the same way that it is difficult to imagine what hasn’t been tubed by Youtube, so too is it hard to figure out what Google Maps hasn’t mapped. As it turns out, very little. In fact, Google’s unrelenting mapping of the world now includes some of the world’s most august art institutions and galleries. Google’s Art Project allows folks to visit galleries such as MoMa and the Tate Modern …
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Usage-Based Billing Decision Faces Review, March 1
by Nick Glossop on February 1, 2011
The [Canadian] federal government will decide by March 1 whether to reject a CRTC decision on usage-based internet billing, after Prime Minister Stephen Harper requested a review.
Harper’s communications director, Dimitri Soudas, confirmed the review Tuesday, saying the government was “very concerned” about the impact of the CRTC ruling on consumers.
via CBC News – Technology & Science – CRTC’s internet billing decision faces review.
How very kind of …
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Cheaper Than The Internet – In Canada
by Nick Glossop on February 1, 2011
Via imgur << Blunderdog
(h/t Warren Heise)
Sign the petition, tell the CRTC to think again and put Bell back in their place. Here CTV talks with OpenMedia about the petition.
Essential reading on the subject from Michael Geist – problems with Canadian telecom are much bigger than the latest muddle at the CRTC.…
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UBB – Still A Bad Idea
by Nick Glossop on January 31, 2011
Big George ‘Strombo’ weighs in on the correct side of UBB, usage-based billing which the CRTC recently decided, at the request of Bell Canada, to allow.
UBB is an impressive if brazen idea in that it manages to be universally bad for everyone (including Canadians who do not use the Internet) with the meager exception of the the likes of Bell and their allies at the CRTC – bad for …
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TRN: Egyptian and Tunisian People vs US Dominance
by Andrew Loewen on January 30, 2011
Helpful interview with instructive analysis from Phyllis Bennis on The Real News.
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The Revolution in Pictures
by Andrew Loewen on January 30, 2011
Incredible photo gallery of images from the Egyptian popular uprising.
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Ahmad Shokr Reports From Cairo (Audio)
by Nick Glossop on January 29, 2011
On day 5 of the Egyptian uprising, Ahmad Shokr reports from Cairo for Democracy Now.
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Cretinous Limbaugh Acolyte Learns To Operate Fax Machine
by Cyrus Lewis on January 27, 2011
Responding to Rush Limbaugh’s recent mocking of the Chinese language, a move calculated, presumably, to celebrate, in right-wing hate radio parlance, Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the US, Democratic California State Senator Leland Yee called on the corpulent radio jock to apologize. Rush, of course, did not comply, preferring to sound off about Yee, by name, the next day on his odious radio program.
Yee’s request, however, …
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