inCommunicado - eric eggertson

My favourite geek is coming to a screen near you.
 Starting June 1, Tod Maffin is hosting a live video show on blogtv.ca.
According to the Todster, it’s about personal technology, and will feature 45 minutes of live call-in (via computer) every Friday night.
Tod says he has funding from Alliance Atlantis for the web TV show, […]

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I met Krista Baliko at a podcasters’ meetup last year, (even though neither of us is a podcaster), so I like to watch her progress working at the CBC Mother Corp.
Good to see she’s got a blog this week, as she posts about the goings-on in Saskatoon around the JUNO awards. The awards show time […]

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Inside the CBC suddenly became one of the only sources of information Monday about why the cbc.ca site was unavailable for many hours.
The problem was caused by a server malfunction.  It took several hours to get a back-up server online.So, for a few hours, the company’s blog was there to inform people that the main […]

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CBC’s Venture is profiling Red Paperclip guy Kyle MacDonald and fiancee Dominique Dupuis Wednesday October 25 at 7:30 p.m.
MacDonald is pretty busy writing a book about his year-long publicity campaign, based on trading up from a red paper clip to a house.
The Venture crew spent some time in Kipling, Sask., with the couple, and […]

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I didn’t even know there was an Ideas show before Lister Sinclair until the last few years.  Whenever I tuned in, he was always the voice of the CBC Radio show that was willing to examine thinkers and their thoughts in detail.
News this morning of his death brought to mind his gentle, whimsical voice.  There’s […]

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Spoiled Rotten (Apple) - Joseph Jaffe - The big question is, why do people let Apple get away with such consumer-unfriendly behaviour?
Avoiding Tradmarkicide: Ziplock Bags and Apple’s iPod - Kami Huyse - The Apple trademark legal battle that’s shaping up, and the challenge of protecting a trademark from becoming a generic term.
PR Pro says NO […]

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Terry O’Reilly is back on the air, exploring the advertising business.  Last year’s excellent O’Reilly on Advertising is being followed up by O’Reilly and the Age of Persuasion.
(Actually, don’t bother clicking on the above link.  CBC’s web page for  the show has almost no information about the theme or the host; it doesn’t tell you […]

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The CBC logo carved in the tindalstone of the CBC building bears a resemblance to the fossil embedded in the stone.

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The podcasts announced today by CBC Radio are a step in the right direction, but they don’t approach the extensive podcasting already undertaken by the BBC in Britain and NPR in the U.S.
CBC Radio One Podcasts
Since getting an MP3 player for Christmas, my religious listening of CBC shows has fallen off significantly. I’ve forsaken  […]

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Dave Traynor has it right.  He points to Randy Bachman’s Saturday night show on CBC Radio One as "arguably the best music show in the land."
Bachman hosts Randy’s Vinyl Tap, which uses his personal perspective as the lens through which he views a musical theme, event or time period.  If you haven’t tuned in, […]

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Michael Tippett: Digg.com is an example of how the audience is influencing the news - readers vote on which stories should have most prominence. Their traffic is now bigger than NBC or CNN.
Nancy White:  The online world calls for new competencies. We operate in an electronic world, where our body language and our ability […]

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