So, instead of all that Rogers stuff, I decided to go with the obvious and did the Xbox story for the CBC’s tech ersatz-section.
But Rogers’ traffic sharing could be a good article for next week, maybe.
(EDIT) Er… except next week, I’ll be working on the election site… and will be for more than a month. I’m not sure what that means of the tech stuff.
From the posts on that Apple forum, it looks like Rogers problem has been fixed.
Gotta love this quote:
“I made sure to let them know that having their marketing department promote an iTunes Phone while making iTunes unusable on their own network was probably not the best idea.”
Oh, inDEED!
More forums that are talking about the Rogers/iTunes problems:
The Rogers/Shaw downloading problem was first reported in this post on the Apple support boards.
I could also see now podcasts hosts are dealing with it.
This Boingboing story about Rogers/Shaw blocking podcasts and iTunes downloads could be interesting, giving that CBC has some of Canada’s most popular podcasts.
Last week, I wrote about the WSIS conference for the tech quasi-section of CBC.ca.
Writing this story didn’t go as smoothly as the last one. I spent a good chunk of the day just figuring out what I should write about. And then I figured out what I’m going to do with this blog.
I read lots of blogs, about tech and about other things, through RSS feeds. I should use this blog to keep track of what’s interesting and were I found it to make my job writing tech at the end of the week a lot easier.
I’ve imported (what I think is) the last back-up I made of my blog. There’s about a year missing, which, at the rate I’ve been blogging, could mean as many as a half a dozen posts.
I’ll see if I can retreive some of the missing posts from Google cache or archive.org or something.
I wrote by first article for the CBC’s tech pseudo-section on Thursday. It’s about Sony’s CD protection fiasco.
Next time, I’ll write a more descriptive title. “Sony and the rootkit” doesn’t say anything to someone who is just coming to the story.
Boingboing has a great round-up of its coverage of the Sony XCP nonsence.
On del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site, you can look through other people’s bookmarks, to see what’s popular on the web, including mp3s. This page also lets you preview the sound files before you download them.
A lot of these popular mp3s are mash-ups, mixing one genre with another. Acoustic rap. Symphonic video game music. The Beatles meet Guns and Roses. That sorta stuff.
That symphonic Mario music reminds me of that acapella chorus…
And I also found that Be Good Tanyas track on del.icio.us. Y’know, the one from the Zellers ad. (Actually, I heard it on the CBC long before HBC bought it, but the ad reminded me of how nice those wandering harmonies are.)
I don’t really know much about the SomethingAwful vs. eBaum’s World drama, but this is a damn catchy song.
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