The Sony Ericsson W350 appeared on the scene this year in Canada and at initial glance, sparks some interest. It seems small and comes at a super-budget price ($20 after carrier subsidies from Rogers Wireless). It bills itself as a very small flip-phone built for music first and just happens to also be a phone. Reality doesn’t quite match this marketing push but regardless, the phone has it’s strong points which seem to balance out the compromises. continue…

CBC Radio is soon going to be airing a new documentary miniseries called The Nerve by the same people who brought you the wonderful series The Wire: the Impact of Electricity on Music. The six part series explores the power music can have over us. It debuts this Saturday on CBC Radio so be sure to check it out. It seems like there is no (legitimate) way to hear this stuff off the radio so you’ll have to tune in at the prescribed times in order to consume.

UPDATE: It turns out you can actually listen to the episodes online via their website.

Last month Ohmpage was sent an 8GB Zune. This new toy had been out in the US for a while now with lots of talk surrounding the little device but surprisingly little solid information since a lot of the discussion ended up in heated opinionated brawls with false analogies and rampant speculation. Comparisons to the iPod seem unavoidable though rational ones remain oddly rare. The toy is out in Canada this Friday the 13th, finally, and still so few people have any idea of its existence. Many of those who know it exists know little about it. So let’s clear some of that up, shall we? continue…

It turns out that despite the slow demise of the drive-in movie theatre (and the slow demise of movie theatres in general) there is still value in the drive-in experience. Bryan Kennedy’s DIY guerilla drive-in theatre will let you make your own drive in on the go for you and your friends complete with short range FM audio transmission. It is only a matter of time before the MPAA gets in a huff about it but it looks like fun and you won’t have to sneak a friend in the trunk.

Clear Channel has a problem. Nobody really wants to listen to any of their content. Their stations are loosing listeners as their audience slowly breaks from captivity and finds more alternative options. Clear Channel is claiming it can not compete with satelite radio, for instance, and that this is entierly unfair. Their solution? – less regulation of course. Clear Channel wants to be allowed to serve up the same banal content over more and more channels. That is their solution to get you to listen to them; they’re just playing on the law of averages. Note to Mark Mays: Nobody wants to listen to Clear Channel content because it sucks. The solution to declining listenership is to make the content suck less. Trying to play off the captive audience ticket and the law of averages will only doom you in the long run.