Posts filed under “CBC”
Do I want an app that tells me what I like?
This week’s CBC tech column is all about the double-edged sword of online personalization. There’s a copy up at cbc.ca, and one below for posterity. === Last week, a Vancouver-based app-maker called Zite launched a new iPad application of the same name that it bills as “a personalized iPad magazine that gets smarter as you [...]
Live radio + realtime social media
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of doing a short talk on “social media” for many of the hosts and producers of local and regional CBC Radio afternoon shows. I’ve talked about social media and radio before, mostly in the context of Spark. But here’s the thing: local and regional afternoon shows are completely different [...]
How to be smart about buying an ebook reader, digital camera, or HDTV
This week, my CBC Radio tech column focused on holiday gadget-buying. I looked at three gadget categories: ebook readers, digital cameras, and HDTVs. The focus wasn’t on what to buy, but rather, how to be smart about buying it. I do my columns eighteen times every Tuesday (on most CBC Radio One afternoon shows). Here’s [...]
App stores jump out of your pocket, onto your desktop
Updated: Download MP3 or listen below. This week’s CBC Radio tech column is all about app stores. They’ve been incredibly successful on mobile devices, and now, both Apple and Google are set to launch app stores for desktop computers. It’s widely anticipated that the Google Chrome Web Store will launch today, and there are rumours [...]
Archiving GeoCities: my full interview with Jason Scott
About a year ago, Yahoo shut down GeoCities. Before the site was shuttered forever, a group called the Archive Team decided to grab as much GeoCities content as possible. They got almost a terabyte, and now plan to release it all as a torrent. My CBC Radio tech column this Tuesday will be about GeoCities, [...]
An open API for public media
So, according to Poynter, all the big US public media organizations are getting together to work on an open API: “I really err on the side of openness and inclusiveness,” [CEO of PRX Jake] Shapiro said. Public media, he said, is uniquely suited for this work because of its public service mission — “to make [...]
My password is bigger than your password
My password is bigger than your password. And that’s a good thing. According to researchers at Georgia Tech, GPU-accelerated brute-force password cracking techiques are getting really good: “Right now we can confidently say that a seven-character password is hopelessly inadequate,” said Mr [Richard] Boyd, “and as GPU power continues to go up every year, the [...]
Google-Verizon, the CRTC’s open consultation on basic service, and Canadian rural broadband
Yesterday, Verizon and Google announced a joint policy proposal for an open Internet, suggesting that there should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices. This means that for the first time, wireline broadband providers would not be able to discriminate against or prioritize lawful Internet content, applications or services in a way that causes [...]
In Praise of the Dumbphone
It’s been a summer of mobile phone announcements. The Droid X. The iPhone 4. The Blackberry 9800 is expected to be announced on Tuesday. And there’s been a lot of talk: “Should I upgrade to the new iPhone 4?” “Should I switch to an Android?” Strangely, there’s little talk of downgrading to a “dumbphone.” You [...]
CBC Jobs RSS feed
Update June 7, 2011: MediaJobsSearchCanada’s RSS feed no longer includes 8-character CBC job numbers (e.g. EDM00183), which breaks the whole thing I’d rigged up in Yahoo Pipes. I may someday write my own scraper for CBC’s terrible jobs site, but until then, the feed won’t be updated. Curiously, the MJSC change seems to have happened one [...]