BBC Covers Net Politics

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Interesting report from UPI today: White House adviser Karl Rove said in a recent conference call that Internet lobbying by young grassroots Republicans will make or break the Bush administration’s proposals to revamp the pension program, just as the technology helped get out the vote last fall during the presidential campaign.

CNN’s replacement for the venerable Inside Politics will include a tip of the hat to the online world, with podcasts and blogs part of the coverage.  Let’s just hope they incorporate it in a less cheesy way than the current IP blog segment.  CNN reports on its own format change: "The Situation Room" will be…

Got a Slingbox last week.  It allows place-shifting of your TV viewing.  Where TiVO allows for "time-shifting" (you can watch when you want), Slingbox lets you watch where you want. The net effect for this road warrior is that I can watch Red Sox games from hotel rooms around the country.  Costs $250, you hook…

PaidContent: “American Public Media Group (APMG), parent company to Minnesota Public Radio, has invested almost $1 million in the for-profit, Boston-based Gather.com. The new venture is a social networking website devoted to creating an online community of public-radio listeners.”

So that I don’t overwhelm you with long reviews of all the cool stuff I saw on DEMOfall Day 1, here are the quick hits of companies and products that intrigued me: ·        U3 (see previous post) ·        Realm Systems (see previous post) ·        Hatsize Learning’s TrueLab – sort of like WebEx/GoToMeeting meets the computer…