Google Plan Would Open TV Band for Wireless Use, Bloomberg News.

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, Google offered suggestions on how the airwaves, known as white spaces, could provide high-speed mobile access to consumers without disrupting televisions and wireless microphones.

Google and Microsoft are part of a group that wants the F.C.C. to unlock the airwaves for unlicensed uses, like mobile Web access, after broadcasters convert to digital signals in 2009. Google said that its proposals could help ensure that consumers anywhere would be able to use devices on those airwaves by late next year.

DeMint taps into power of Web, Robert Behre, The Post and Courier.

Though DeMint didn't know its details, he quickly fired off an e-mail press release, likening the compromise measure to amnesty. Within 20 minutes, Internet newsman Matt Drudge quickly posted it on the Drudge Report.

"We had something like 20,000 hits that afternoon," DeMint's state director Luke Byars recalls. "It shut down the Senate server."

"We hadn't even seen the bill yet because they didn't show it to us," DeMint said. "We put what we could get over the weekend on the Web, on the Internet and sent it to bloggers. They started taking it apart."

Talk radio then took it from there. "When these radio talk show hosts come in, they'll sit there for 30 minutes reading the blogs before they go on the air. It used to be the newspaper, but now it's the blogs," he said.

h/t Rob Bluey

All the Rage #1: Sir Arthur and the Green Knight, Blog PI.

Today Blog P.I. launches a new feature, or what I hope will actually become one: a look at the Top 10 most-edited pages on the English-language Wikipedia for the past week, with an explanation for why each page made the top ten. Some will be obvious to anyone who keeps tabs on current events, so rather than giving a terse “duh” I’ll endeavor to pull a non-obvious detail or amusing factoid from the edit history.

The Internet Effect on News, Time Swampland.

Here is a basic shift that has occurred in the news business: Because of the Internet, you, the reader, no longer have buy information in pre-fabricated packages like “newspapers.” You can just go online and individually select the articles you want to read. And there are lots of websites and blogs to help you out. Every day, Matt Drudge, the Huffington Post, Yahoo, Google, Swampland, or a hundred other different bloggers, will pre-select articles for you and provide links. You choose your own adventure.

There is a corollary effect here: As the value of the package declines, the value of the individual article increases. Online, news organizations charge advertisers based on the number of hits they can get on a site. And since the hits are often coming for specific stories, and not the entire site, a blockbuster story that gets linked to, say, Drudge, is money in the bank.

11 Ways to Find New RSS Subscribers for Your Blog, ProBlogger.

How do I get People to Subscribe to my RSS feed? It’s a good question and one that I have a few ideas on (but which it’d be great to get some discussion going on in comments). Of course the first question I ask people saying they want more subscribers is ‘do you have content worth subscribing to?’ Without something worthwhile on your blog the rest of this post will be meaningless. But once you are pumping out quality content here are a few tips on how to get more subscribers for it.