Wednesday

How Your Journalism Sausage Gets Made.  blogs.forbes.com

Trying again. This is the link that goes with the last tweet. It didn’t work in Firefox either.  google.com

The debt crisis is self-induced. We decided to have a crisis. That’s the crisis.  google.com

Embarassing tweets begging for coverage on behalf of Sarah Palin. I thought she *wanted* to be ignored?  slate.com

Twitter deals with noisy users by hiding tweets.  thenextweb.com

Proud to say my partner in Rebooting the News is now fully Blork-compatible. .  xmlviewer.scripting.com

I don’t want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day! (Good morning ever body!).  youtube.com

Nodejitsu, Support for JavaScript of the Future, Raises $750K.  betabeat.com

jQuery Tutorials for Designers.  webdesignerwall.com

How To Survive Amsterdam.  thenextweb.com

World’s tallest building to be erected in Saudi Arabia.  en.rian.ru

U.S. debt rating downgrade harms world economy – Putin.  en.rian.ru

Tuesday

Recon Scout Throwbot a Go for Domestic Police Raids.  tested.com

Google’s Co-Founder Doesn’t Want You to Know About His Facebook Account.  gawker.com

Why Apple shares are dirt cheap.  tech.fortune.cnn.com

Tech Start-Ups Settling in Flatiron and Chelsea.  nytimes.com

‘The Olmsted Legacy,’ on PBS.  tv.nytimes.com

Let’s move tweeting off Twitter.  blogs.law.harvard.edu

The decade the GOP hopes you’ve forgotten.  salon.com

The America our parents left us.  scripting.com

Who runs Twitter?  scripting.com

A review copy of Paul Allen’s new book arrived today.  flickr.com

Mostly gloomy NYC spring. (Photo.).  flickr.com

NYU Students Want To Have Sex Approximately 5.3 Times A Week.  nyulocal.com

Q&A: Exploring Amsterdam’s Sights, and Beyond.  intransit.blogs.nytimes.com

The debt ceiling had to be raised seven times during the Bush years.  washingtonpost.com

Motto: Ignore what you don’t understand.  scripting.com

The Flip is dead. Long live Flip.  readability.com

World Outline: The world > North America > United States > Songs about the US.  worldoutline.scripting.com

Brewer vetoes presidential ‘birther’ bill. (Thanks.).  azcentral.com

Dropbox Lack of Security – Miguel de Icaza.  tirania.org

Five Reasons Why Twitter Will Kill TweetDeck.  techcrunch.com

Google Wants You To Complete its U.S. Map.  wired.com

Syrian security forces open fire on demonstrators, dozens killed, wounded.  en.rian.ru

Google Map Maker for the United States.  google-latlong.blogspot.com

Want to bet if we elect a republican president next time, all of a sudden the debt crisis disappears.  nationalreview.com

In Silicon Valley, Investors Are Jockeying Like It’s 1999.  online.wsj.com

Monday

Google Video – Archiveteam.  archiveteam.org

Let me google that for you: “donald trump hair”.  google.com

Dropbox Updates Security Terms Of Service To Say It Can Decrpyt Files If The Government Asks It To.  businessinsider.com

Is there a bidding war over TweetDeck?  news.cnet.com

NYC Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Is Rich and Grumpy.  adweek.com

Dropbox: 25 million users and counting.  tech.fortune.cnn.com

UberMedia Losing TweetDeck To Twitter, Says Report.  socaltech.com

Russian maths genius Perelman urged to take $1m prize.  news.bbc.co.uk

Tweet anonymously.  anontwttr.fox21.at

The Demise of Google Video, and How to Rescue Your Movies.  webmonkey.com

Glad to see the Pulitzer guys have a website. Next, please –> An RSS feed. .  pulitzer.org

Donald Trump’s Whiny Liberal History Under Scrutiny.  gawker.com

Russian Officials in Tax Fraud Case Grew Wealthy, Group Says.  nytimes.com

MP3 for today’s Rebooting the News.  mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Listen to Rebooting the News live in less than 10 minutes. #runninglate #justabit.  talkshoe.com

Internet freedom declining as use grows.  sfgate.com

Paul Allen compares working with Bill Gates to ‘being in hell’ (video).  engadget.com

People climb hill to flee Japan tsunami in new video.  thefirstpost.co.uk

The clear path of GOP destruction across all levels of government.  nytimes.com

What do Egypt, China, Cameroon, Tunisia and Vietnam have in common? (Cut-off access to Twitter.).  mediabistro.com

All communication in BlorkLand is via RSS, extended with the microblog namespace.  xmlviewer.scripting.com

“Voters have no memory” for $800, Alex.  nytimes.com

Screen shot shows what it’s like to post something with the Blork reader-writer.  scripting.com

It takes courage to delete code.  horia.me

Moving bikes stay upright — but not for the reasons we thought.  arstechnica.com

Wired Interview: Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Talks Tech, Bill Gates, Chemo and Guitars.  wired.com

BlackBerry Playbook: How did Research in Motion lose its way?  slate.com

Sunday

Trump Suggests Obama Didn’t Write His Book.  politicalwire.com

The Washington Haggadah at Metropolitan Museum of Art.  nytimes.com

Ride #3, south, windy.  scripting.com

Scoble’s “social camera” bootstrap.  scripting.com

Stephen Fry “Prepared To Go To Prison” Over Twitter Joke Trial.  mediabistro.com

Trump Suggests Obama Didn’t Write His Book.  politicalwire.com

I’ll work for a Republican if I have to.  scripting.com

A social camera bootstrap.  scripting.com

Saturday

I saw the Atlas Shrugged movie too and agree with this review. It was a non-movie. Nothing happened.  alicublog.blogspot.com

Apple opening two more retail stores in Ontario.  thenextweb.com

Speculation on an Amazon iPad competitor.  marco.org

U.S. prods companies to develop secure, easy-use ID.  reuters.com

Russia looks abroad for web laws, including to China.  reuters.com

‘On the Road’ Becomes a Movie at Last.  nytimes.com

The Idle Rich Should Give Something Back – Taxes.  nytimes.com

Share Your OPML in 2007 viewed through archive.org.  replay.waybackmachine.org

Is it possible for Rackspace users to share machine images with other users, as we are able to on EC2?  scripting.com

The Real Reason Mike McCue Needs $50 Million: Google Is Building A Flipboard Killer.  techcrunch.com

Want a Piece of the Mets? It Helps to Fit the Profile.  nytimes.com

Techstars: The next great startup incubator unleashes 11 startups in NYC.  thenextweb.com

Guess Obama wants to turn the US into a Third World country too.  thehill.com

Hot tubs in the news for $200, Alex.  scripting.com

The story of Rachel Sklar, a hot tub and an iPad — all in one tweet. With room for a smiley. .  scripting.com

“President Obama did a bad thing by calling cruel nonsense cruel nonsense…”.  krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Could Twitter Get “MySpaced”?  markevanstech.com

Twitter could put an end to paywalls.  scripting.com

Republicans will make US ‘Third World’ nation: Obama.  news.yahoo.com

Friday

President Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won’t Abide by Provision in Budget Bill.  blogs.abcnews.com

Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Politician” Show.  cbsnews.com

Why the password “this is fun” is 10 times more secure than “J4fS!2″.  baekdal.com

The grief the GOP just brought on itself.  salon.com

The High Stakes of Republicans’ Budget Vote.  fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Atlas Winced.  theatlantic.com

House Passes G.O.P. Budget Plan With No Democratic Votes.  nytimes.com

Republican House votes to end Medicare next year.  cnn.com

Let’s Build A New Internet In Academia. (My guest post on NYU Local.).  nyulocal.com

Book Review – The Long Goodbye – By Meghan O’Rourke.  nytimes.com

The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric: Scientific American.  scientificamerican.com

The White House leaks on itself. Who will join Bradley Manning in solitary?  foxnews.com

NYT profile of Cate Blanchett.  tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com

Where does the phrase “Life is like a bowl of cherries” come from?  answers.yahoo.com

Obama: GOP tried to “sneak” agenda into budget.  cbsnews.com

Would you Buy Uber50, a 50 Cent-Themed Twitter Client?  mediabistro.com

These People Sold Twitter For Just $5 Million Back In 2006.  businessinsider.com

There’s more to the Internet than startups.  scripting.com

@hugorodgerbrown @kroc_camen — if he supports RSS like this http://davelinks.com/ then our visions are compatible, one and the same. davelinks.com

What’s the Best Exercise?  nytimes.com

Emails expose BP’s attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill.  guardian.co.uk

Bank of America Quarterly Profit Drops Nearly 36%.  dealbook.nytimes.com

Let’s build a new Internet in academia.  scripting.com

Twitter denies $10bn takeover talks with Google and Facebook. (February of this year.).  uk.finance.yahoo.com

So far no denials from either twitter or google of the $10 billion offer.  twitter.com

Biz Stone says the Fortune article was a sign of respect.  bizstone.com

Rex’s theory: Cisco shot the Flip from a grassy knoll.  rexblog.com

The lazy, languid, long-distance cycle ride — the best type?  guardian.co.uk

Thursday

Pouty Republicans mad at partisan Obama.  salon.com

Entrepreneurs Plan To Legalize and Monetize Illegal Music.  torrentfreak.com

The Ryan Plan’s Political Problem.  outsidethebeltway.com

Don’t Look Over Here!  blog.curry.com

Ukranian meatballs at Veselka. #foodporn.  flickr.com

My Rackspace vs EC2 piece spawned a nice long thread on Hacker News.  news.ycombinator.com

‘Rio,’ Animated Comedy With Jesse Eisenberg (opens tomorrow).  movies.nytimes.com

Britain Blocks Export of Lethal Injection Drugs to U.S.  nytimes.com

Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation.  kara.allthingsd.com

Psychologist Who Cleared Inmates for Death Row Is Reprimanded by Board.  nytimes.com

Atlas Shrugged opens tomorrow. #whoisjohngalt.  google.com

NYU Professor Yelled At By Charlie Sheen Tries To Understand Him.  nyulocal.com

Mayor Bloomberg Calls April 16 Foursquare Day.  cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

I did some experiments today and found that Rackspace beats EC2, by a lot.  scripting.com

Second ride of 2011.  scripting.com

Helicopter takeoff over Hudson.  flickr.com

$10 billion for Twitter.  scripting.com

“…not a lot of thinking going on at these tanks.”.  krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

The Tragic Death of the Flip.  pogue.blogs.nytimes.com

Taptu For iPad Successfully Taps Into News Junkie Territory.  wired.com

Twitter Turned Down A $10 Billion Offer From Google.  businessinsider.com

The Real “Next Facebook” is All of Us.  blog.windsoc.co

Interesting idea: A URL-shortener that gets a Readability version of the page.  readability.com

Hooray for the President!  scripting.com

Could Goldman Sachs Fail? (And if they did would we bail them out?).  baselinescenario.com

Obama Speech Defends Liberal Principles.  thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Obama’s Speech on Reducing the Budget (Text).  nytimes.com

Amazon EC2 vs Rackspace.  gasoftwareblog.com

S.F. draws Twitter, Zynga to tax ‘council.’.  marketwatch.com

Ryan’s Budget Gives Obama What He Wants. (Written by a Republican.).  frumforum.com

How Twitter Was Founded.  businessinsider.com

Daring Fireball: Tweetbot 1.0.  daringfireball.net

Angry Republicans 2012.  scripting.com

Wednesday

Marc Canter: Preamble to the Noah Glass story….  marc.digitalcitymechanics.com

scripting.com running on Linux now. (Attn @gruber.).  scripting.com

Scripting News: A call for Frontier jocks.  scripting.com

How Twitter Was Founded. (I know Noah Glass from when he worked with Marc Canter. Smart guy.).  businessinsider.com

Great news: UberMedia to launch Twitter competitor.  scripting.com

Obama’s Deficit-Cutting Plan Balances Cuts With Tax Increases.  nytimes.com

Bye Flip. We’ll Miss You.  wired.com

Google URL shortener gets new features.  googleblog.blogspot.com

Viagra patent set to expire next year.  nytimes.com

Divorce app could help couples decide if their marriage has a future.  guardian.co.uk

Joan Walsh likes the President’s budget story.  salon.com

Lucy and the Economic Football.  krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Krugman approves of the President’s The Budget Speech.  krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Leading app maker said to be planning Twitter competitor.  edition.cnn.com

Twitter’s Forgotten Cofounder, Noah Glass.  businessinsider.com

Ukranian meatballs at Veselka.  flickr.com

EV Grieve: On East Ninth Street, hot plates and hell.  evgrieve.com

Cisco: How The iPhone Killed The Flip Camera. (Amazing that Cisco, the networking company, let this happen.).  businessinsider.com

The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay.  scobleizer.com

But You’re too Old to do a Startup.  jeremyhamel.posterous.com

RIM CEO terminates BBC Click interview.  news.bbc.co.uk

NPR’s Andy Carvin, tweeting the Middle East.  washingtonpost.com

Retirees in Need of Young Workers.  economix.blogs.nytimes.com

Do the Companies that Hold Your Data Stand with Users?  eff.org

Dave Winer: Twitter is mostly about ‘grunting and snorting’ but it could be much more.  thenextweb.com

Framing and Obama.  scripting.com

Obama will call to end Bush-era tax cuts on wealthy. That would be very welcome.  politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Everyone Has An Ideology.  krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Cure for that dragging-your-ass feeling!  scripting.com

We now have a Chinatown hyperlocal blog that, among other topics, reviews dumplings.  ourchinatown.org

Egypt: Mubarak and sons detained amid corruption probe.  bbc.co.uk

Tuesday

The penultimate of pathetic. Someone asks you to look up RTFM for them.  lmgtfy.com

@Thecommich  lmgtfy.com

Berkeleyside is following the progress of the 4th St Apple store. #underconstruction.  berkeleyside.com

48-year-old Twins Arrested After Living With Mother’s Corpse for Three Months.  gawker.com

Rand Paul says he’s considering filibuster of budget agreement.  thehill.com

2011: The Year the Check-in Died.  readwriteweb.com

In Flushing’s Downtown and Waterfront, Developers Dream Big.  nytimes.com

Scripting News: An Instapaper idea?  scripting.com

Air France crash: Tail section found on Atlantic seabed.  bbc.co.uk

Pawlenty: ‘I’m running for president’.  politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Gov. Patrick: Racism in birther movement.  politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Steve Jobs Hid iPad Development From Eric Schmidt.  businessinsider.com

Thank you Farhad for a very insightful piece on the *process* of invention.  slate.com

Surefire way to get techmeme to link to you.  chrisyeh.blogspot.com

Pot Growing Gobbles Electricity, Study Finds.  green.blogs.nytimes.com

AOL is doing layoffs the wrong way.  scripting.com

Student Coders Do it Live at HackNY Hackathon.  betabeat.com

News needs an anti-virus.  scripting.com

Peter Thiel Believes the Future Belongs to College Dropouts.  theatlanticwire.com

Space Shuttle to Land in Manhattan.  cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Rebooting the News #90.  rebootnews.com

Cisco kills Flip Video.  pocket-lint.com

Vote on Republican Medicare Plan Could Shape 2012 Races.  nytimes.com

Space travel then and now: The space-age future that never happened.  economist.com

Americans Decry Power of Lobbyists, Corporations, Banks, Feds.  gallup.com

Roughly 20 years ago the USSR was falling apart.  en.rian.ru

Paul Ceglia Files New Evidence In Claim He Owns 50% Of The Facebook.  businessinsider.com

France to require cleartext password storage.  boingboing.net

Starting Up: A Generation of Zuckerberg Wannabees.  businessweek.com

Japan ups nuke crisis severity to match Chernobyl.  sfgate.com

Tumbling Along With the Political Tumbleweed.  nytimes.com

Monday

Nadie Se Conoce: T.S.P.  nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

The biggest spending president in the history of the U.S.? George W. Bush.  politicalwire.com

Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com.  weblogs.hitwise.com

What Googlers Think Of New CEO Larry Page So Far.  businessinsider.com

Economic policy of the George W. Bush administration.  en.wikipedia.org

Mel Gibson should not be in movies.  scripting.com

Jodie Foster on Mel Gibson and new film, ‘The Beaver’.  youtube.com

Egypt blogger Maikel Nabil jailed by military court.  bbc.co.uk

Adolf Eichmann tried to give himself up to West Germany in 1956.  guardian.co.uk

What Lucky People Do Different.  jonathanfields.com

Most Americans have government-subsidized health care.  washingtonpost.com

You can listen to Rebooting the News live at noon Eastern on talkshoe.com.  talkshoe.com

The Guardian is hosting “developer drop-ins” during the month of May in their London office.  guardian.co.uk

A Useful Look at the Current Wall Street Mindset.  theawl.com

An open letter to the brilliant young people who read my blog, about health insurance.  scripting.com

Zuckerberg’s Taking Facebook Into China, But It’ll Be a Baidu Beast.  fastcompany.com

Why Medicare matters to you.  baselinescenario.com

Chris Dixon on Google’s social strategy.  cdixon.org

Cantor Sees Current Medicare and Medicaid Programs As A ‘Safety Net’ For ‘People Who Frankly Don’t Need One’.  thinkprogress.org

Facebook Strikes China Deal With Baidu.  businessinsider.com