Podcast Notes: Northern Rock, Users News and a Facebook Manifesto

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• What can we learn from runs on banks about the much vaunted Web2.0 principle of the "wisdom of crowds" and what financial lessons should be learned from the Northern Rock "crisis"? We spoke to blogger and leading economist Professor Willem Buiter


• Our political correspondent John Pienaar at the Liberal Democrat conference spoke to the MP who is using Facebook to help shape the party's agenda


• The father and son marathon running team who's efforts to enter the London Marathon have sparked a Facebook campaign (thanks Parky)


• A chat about Blackwater, Noah's post quoting Peter Singer is worth a read as is this also at Dangerroom


• Police blogger David Copperfield unmasks himself on an excellent edition of Panorama. We'll catch up with some of the issues, and a police blogger, next week when take our look at prisons and the criminal justice system


• The Britblog Roundup #135 with Clairwil


• Dan Hardie and former soldier Mark Brockway take the campaign to obtain asylum for Iraqis who worked with British forces to Parliament


• Amy Mitchell of the Project for Excellence in Journalism spoke about their study of the difference between user-news sites like Digg and Del.icio.us and those where the agenda is set in the traditional way

Thanks to Gabor of the Electic Language Podcast for the intro. We're always in the market for intros so please do send us more. Please do send us your ideas for our prison special too.

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