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Search Engine with Jesse Brown

The audio podcast that predicts the present: host Jesse Brown and guests explore the Internet's impact on politics and culture.

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    Quit Your Day Job

    Jason Scott has a weird hobby: archiving decades-old floppy disks, ...

    Jason Scott has a weird hobby: archiving decades-old floppy disks, text games and BBS files. When he lost his day job, his weird hobby became his weird occupation. Jason explains how he funded "The Jason Scott Sabbatical".

    Mar 2, 2010 Read more
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    Video Podcast #4: The Luddite

    Hey, can you come in here for a sec? I've ...

    Hey, can you come in here for a sec? I've done it again .... Jesse blogs at: http://www.tvo.org/searchengine

    Feb 24, 2010 Read more
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    Why America Should Blacklist Itself

    Canada remains on America's "priority watch list" of copyright scofflaws. ...

    Canada remains on America's "priority watch list" of copyright scofflaws. But as lawyer Howard Knopf illustrates, Canada's intellectual property laws are already tougher than America's, and any list of copyright laggards would have to include the U.S. Post your comments on the Search Engine blog: http://www.tvo.org/searchengine

    Feb 22, 2010 Read more
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    Malaysia's Internet Schizophrenia

    Malaysia's government warned that the Internet will erode its people's ...

    Malaysia's government warned that the Internet will erode its people's culture - yet their prime minister is on Twitter. Jennifer Pak reports from Kuala Lumpur on the country's love/hate relationship with the Web. Post your comments on the Search Engine blog: http://www.tvo.org/searchengine

    Feb 16, 2010 Read more
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    Video Podcast #3: Save the Newspaper!

    How will mankind survive if we let the Internet kill ...

    How will mankind survive if we let the Internet kill newspapers? Classifieds, crosswords, comics and ads MUST be delivered to our doors each day or society will collapse.

    Feb 11, 2010 Read more
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    CBC and iCopyright

    If you want to quote a CBC.ca story on your ...

    If you want to quote a CBC.ca story on your blog, the CBC wants $250 a month. The CBC also wants you to inform on those who dont. Or so it seemed until Canadians demanded answers.

    Feb 8, 2010 Read more
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    Obama Offline

    One year later, how is Obama fulfilling his promise of ...

    One year later, how is Obama fulfilling his promise of being America's first "Tech-President"? He isn't, says TechPresident.com editor Micah Sifry, who explains how the new administration stopped talking with its online base, and started talking at them.

    Feb 2, 2010 Read more
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    Video Podcast #2: Free Hoder

    Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been rotting in an Iranian ...

    Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been rotting in an Iranian prison for over a year, and hasn't been charged with anything. Our government doesn't seem to care much about him - but you should. Post your comments on the Search Engine blog: http://www.tvo.org/searchengine

    Jan 28, 2010 Read more
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    The Freedom to Connect

    Hillary Clinton's sweeping speech on Internet Freedom: was it an ...

    Hillary Clinton's sweeping speech on Internet Freedom: was it an American dream of a connected globe, or a harsh warning to China?

    Jan 26, 2010 Read more
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    Google vs. China: The Story Behind the Story

    Why is Google really threatening to leave China? Is it ...

    Why is Google really threatening to leave China? Is it due to cyber attacks? Censorship? Is it a business decision? Probably all three, explains Boxun News editor Watson Meng.

    Jan 19, 2010 Read more
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