BBC TV channels heading to the net

...and so it begins:

"The BBC reports that it's "TV channels will be made available on the internet,BBC Director General Mark Thompson has confirmed.He announced plans for the MyBBCPlayer,which will allow viewers to legally download seven days of programmes,at the Edinburgh Television Festival.He said he hoped the service would launch next year".

This could be pretty cool.

Link via the good folks at SmartMobs.

Bram Cohen on P2P TV

A great post from Chris Anderson (The Long Tail) about his encounter with Bram Cohen (inventor of Bittorrent) at FOO camp ("Friends of O'Reilly") this weekend. The topic: P2P TV.

Link.

Cuban on how the NYTimes spins...

This is a pretty cool post from Mark on how what he said in an email interveiw was spun by Andrew Ross Sorkin, business reporter for the NY Times.
The 5th Estate indeed.

Link to Cuban's post and text of the email interview (which includes a link to to the NY Times pubished article.

Reminds me of the Sesame Street segment:
"One of these things is not like the other" :-)

Business as usual...

Rolling Stone's interesting, depressing and semi-terifying article at how Congress really works... wow.
Way different than they taught me in "School House Rock".

Link via EFF.

Cool Bike

... but without a bannana seat, streamers on the handlebars and hockey cards clipped into the spokes... wait... no spokes?

Link via Gizmodo.

Gallery of Star Trek Business Cards

I guess Harry Mudd wasn't "good for nothing..."

Link here via Xeni at BoingBoing.