Dyscultured

Episode 163 – Big Barack Is Watching You!

(direct link to mp3)

Preamble

• That was Evgeny Morozov, debunking cyber-utopianism for RSA Animate.

Privacy Watch (from behind the bushes out back)

• Big Barack is watching you.
• The good news: Wikileaks is back. The bad news…

It’s a World Wide Web

• The EFF weighs in on India’s censorship debacle. And why they might be wrong.

Khaki Pants

• Facebook’s most shared articles of 2011. <- WARNING: links to Facebook!

Tired Old Media

• Remember those annoying “You wouldn’t steal a car” type anti-piracy ads? Yeah, they pirated the music.
• Industry experts choose Canada’s best films (because nobody else will sit through them).
• Don Cherry’s ratings take a hit. See what they did there?

Goin’ Mobile

• Rogers, Telus, Bell, Virgin, Fido & Videotron all confirm that Carrier IQ is not present on their devices — except for Rogers.
• What’s in a name, seriously?
• Mobilicity is down. Not the website, the whole network.

AppleAppleApple

• Samsung gets some free design advice.
• “We had Carrier IQ before it was cool!”
• iTard conundrum: Was Steve right or is his bio a runaway hit?

Pew Pew

• Best headline of the week: Again with the Titanic?
• PlayBook rooted. Good.
• Looks like T-dot Mayor Rob Ford forgot to renew his domain.
• Gowalla to go on permanent walkabout.
• Too bad we don’t do website of the week anymore, because if we did…
• Mike would be all over it too.

Music

• From MP34U.com we’ve got some hip-hop this week, Lostribe with their track “Futuristic Fly”.

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