BBC Covers Net Politics

Fred Wilson mentions on his blog that plenty of people are telling him that radio is dead.  He has some interesting data from JD Power on what consumers think about satellite and HD radio in their cars. My own view?  Satellite threatens FM much more than AM.  Those who still listen to AM often do…

A study by the Economic and Social Research Council found that Britons are slow to adopt the Internet as a means for communicating with MPs.  But politicians and advocacy groups on this side of the Atlantic would be wise to listen to the conclusion of the study’s leader, Stephen Ward of the Oxford Internet Institute,…

Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year.  (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.)  I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). …

My favorite restaurant in Washington, DC suffered a serious fire early yesterday morning while the place was empty. Check out the pictures from Tim Carman at the Washington City Paper to get a feel for the damage at Todd Gray’s Equinox. It certainly wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but there is clearly…

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…

A new news aggregator is launching Inform.com, and it does so with a wet kiss from the New York Times’ Bob Tedeschi today. It has a pretty slick layout, though as others have pointed out, it doesn’t appear to add that much to the current marketplace.  It’s basically just like Google News only with a…