CBC Radio: Search Engine

CBC Radio: Search Engine

Search Engine is your open source to all the surprising and significant ways the Internet is transforming our world. Each week host Jesse Brown looks at politics and culture through the lens of the Net. It's radio that predicts the present.

Sun Nov 16 19:00:00 EST 2008

The Great Firewall of Australia and pt.2 of the weirdly heated Wikipedia pronunciation fracas. more

Sun Nov 09 19:00:00 EST 2008

Tuesday, November 4,2008 was a historic day....for the Internet. The FCC voted to allow "white space" devices. Today I fig... more

Sun Nov 02 18:00:00 EST 2008

Forgive me if I ruin everything, but I'm just going to assume that Obama has already won and discuss his presidency with M... more

Sun Oct 26 20:00:00 EDT 2008

It sounds like a bad sci-fi plot, but it's true: Ontario is about to stamp all new licenses with RFID chips, readable by a... more

Sun Oct 19 20:00:00 EDT 2008

Two interesting things about the worst election ever. more

Sun Oct 12 20:00:00 EDT 2008

A pre-election check-in with Prof.Michael Geist and an excuse to talk about Sarah Silverman. more

Sun Oct 05 20:00:00 EDT 2008

A closer look at the Skype-snoop story with CitizenLab's Ron Deibert and candidate Gabe Carini debates himself. more

Sun Sep 28 20:00:00 EDT 2008

Just one story this week, but it's a good one. Spore, the "Ulysses" of video games, has spawned an online revolt against t... more

Sun Sep 21 20:00:00 EDT 2008

Thanks for the awesome reception last week! This week: why blogs are more ethical than the news, music "pirate" sues musi... more

Sun Sep 14 20:00:00 EDT 2008

Back from the dead! CBC executive Chris Boyce on Search Engine's cancellation, and reasons why our democracy is obsolete. more

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