On the topic of broadcatching (is there a TopicExchange channel for this?), Brett Singer has been creating playlists out of video on the web. Since I don't have a television in Montreal, I watched the news last night via his compilation of BBC and NY1 clips. It was embryonic and crude, but also mind blowing.

You'll find a bunch of these video playlists on Brett's Webjay home page.

Digging Up the Past at 45 R.P.M. from the NY Times is about an old dude rediscovering music he'd loved in the past via pay per download services like the iTunes Music Store. What interests me here is that (1) he's way past the music-buying demographic and (2) the baby boomers are the biggest segment of the population. I wonder if the way that internet music brings back older buyers will combine with this demographic's size to generate a new boom for the recording industry.

Listening: The Black Heart Procession, via j_morley.

Onwards and backwards to the Total Christian Society: lawsuits for injury to moral welfare of a child.

Roger Dingledine on the economics of onion routing -- a great condensation of the issues. For example:

One could imagine a payment protocol where the initiator delivers to node i+1 a coin which is only valuable to node i, and if all is going well then i+1 hands the coin to i. But what about paying the last node in the path? External sites (e.g. webservers) don't know about your protocol. So either you don't pay the last hop, in which case there's no incentive for anybody to honor that, or you give him the money and hope for the best, which again isn't so good incentive-wise.