links for 2006-10-19

“More politicians are f …looking to the Web as a way to bypass the media and get out their own message – unvarnished and unedited.”

Michael Bloomberg has denied that he intends to sell financial news service Bloomberg LP, which is estimated to be worth as much as $12 billion.

A new biography of Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein “inspects their lives with an eye toward the mistakes and human errors”

Dave Winer says reporters should encourage their sources to blog and possibly even host their blogs; use short URLs to highlight links in print; start their own blogs to float stories on.

Ben Compaine wonders whether ACAP, the search engines permissions standard being backed by publishers’ groups including the World Association of Newspapers, is “a solution in search of a problem”

Three-quarters of UK online households will have broadband by December, Jupiter Research says.

A Stanford University study into Internet addiction lists the impulse to “make blog entries” as one of the symptoms