Courtesy of the Financial Times, the latest news on the financial sector's most self-allegorizing activity: death hedging.  Or more prosaically, the develpment of 'longevity derivatives' and associated indices, through which fund managers can hedge against the risk that people (not to speak of broker-dealers) might not die soon enough.  In this update, Deutsche Börse has introduced live (so to speak) data feeds from undertakers to find out the age of the bodies they bury.

Death data drive new market

Autonomous peer-to-peer video distribution systems

The ‘objective conditions’ for online film distribution may not yet be right, but video makers, programmers, techies and activists are busy making sure they soon will be. Agnese Trocchi reports on a handful of initiatives building and refining file-sharing systems for the distribution and pooling of digital video

At last, a radio station worth listening to. Dave Mandl tunes in