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GRTTWaK11
This morning, I announced Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids 11. It’s almost sold out. Avoid heartache and get your tickets now. Sorry. I warned you.
Subscriptionization, eBook-style
This week’s CBC tech column is about Amazon’s rumoured book rental service. A copy is up at cbc.ca/tech, and below, for posterity. The podcast version, posted below, includes a full interview with bookfuturist and Wired.com staff writer Tim Carmody. Subscriptionization, eBook-style by misener (download mp3) === Details are slim, but on Monday the Wall Street Journal reported that [...]
“how does one get a job producing public radio?”
On a semi-regular basis, I get email messages and telephone calls from people who want to ask me about my job. Usually, it’s someone considering pursuing a career in radio who wants to pick my brain. And I’m happy to oblige. Often, the questions are the same: Is it worth going to school? Are there [...]
Buying travel medical insurance
As part of our ongoing plans to move to France, Jenna and I need to get some health insurance for the year we’ll be away. According to the 2E Working Holiday visa application, we need: An additional medical insurance certificate that will provide full coverage (for health risks, medical bills, medication, hospitalisation, repatriation, etc.) during [...]
Home Recording 101 Redux
A few months ago, with the help of Tony and David, I led a workshop called “A beginner’s guide to multitrack audio recording.” The goal was to help singer-songwriters develop the skills necessary to make basic home recordings of their songs. It went really well. Not to toot my own horn or anything (toot toot!), [...]
.ca -> .fr
Here’s the news: Jenna and I are packing up, leaving Toronto, and moving to France. For an entire year. Starting in January 2012. If you’re family or a close friend, this is probably not news. We’ve been planning this for almost three years, and though we haven’t kept it a secret, we also haven’t widely [...]
I spy with my little ISP
This week’s CBC tech column and podcast is all about lawful access legislation. The podcast features a special extended interview with Tamir Israel of CIPPIC. It’s online now in written and audio form [mp3 download]. === “Stop spying.” That’s the message from OpenMedia.ca, a Vancouver-based internet advocacy group, to government and law enforcement officials. They’ve [...]
Google, PittPatt, and facial recognition
This week’s CBC Radio tech column is all about Google’s aquisition of PittPatt, a facial recognition company. It’s online now in written and audio form [mp3 download] Also, if you’re awesome, you’ll subscribe and rate Misener on Tech in iTunes. Pretty please. === Eric Schmidt and I have at least one thing in common: we [...]
Why the wait on Google+ for businesses? Ads.
So far, Google+ is for people only. Google has advised businesses, organizations, and brands — basically, any entity that isn’t an individual human being — to hold off on setting up a Google+ presence. Eventually though, Google will allow businesses to join. Over at VentureBeat, Jolie O’Dell quotes a nameless Google spokesperson: While Google is [...]
Audio: How can we build a city that thinks like the web?
Back in June, I moderated a panel at the 2011 Subtle Technologies Festival. It was called How can we build a city that thinks like the web?, and included Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing), Mark Surman (Mozilla) and Sara Diamond (OCAD University). This week, on my CBC tech podcast, I’m really pleased to be able to [...]