Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Web 2.0 Expo Preview: Torture by Information Overload  —  Now that the first burst of enthusiasm for social networking has died, people are realizing that web 2.0 is actually a huge time sink.  —  Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Plaxo may have helped foster community and communication …

Molly Wood / Crave: The gadget blog:
5 reasons my Zune is dead to me  —  I really wanted to love my 80GB Zune.  I’d heard good things about its Wi-Fi and its FM radio, its software, the Zune Marketplace, its easy navigation, and its non-iPod-ness.  But then I got it, and now I hate […]

PR Newswire:
Netflix Announces Q1 2008 Financial Results  —  Subscribers - 8.2 million Revenue - $326.2 million GAAP Net Income - $13.4 million GAAP EPS - $0.21 per diluted share  —  Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX - News) today reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008.

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Twitter: grabbing defeat from the jaws of success  —  Amazing, Twitter has been half down all weekend long.  Dave Winer and others have been writing about it.  The problems have been covered on TechMeme and other places where one looks for interesting tech news.

TheStreet.com:
Jim Cramer’s ‘Stop Trading!’:  Buy Apple  —  AAPL (The Telecom Connection PICK) MRK NOK RIMM  —  Buy Apple AAPL, Jim Cramer said on CNBC’s “Stop Trading!” segment Monday.  —  Cramer said that there is a “grudging recognition” in the market, especially after Nokia’s NOK cautious guidance …

Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and change its OS business  —  Microsoft is nothing if not responsive to its customers.  In fact, it’s hyper-responsive.  That’s why we’ve ended up with feature-bloat in both Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office as the company …

Spencer Reiss / Wired News:
Cloud Computing.  Available at Amazon.com Today.  —  Jeff Bezos’ store in the sky is hard to beat for books, CDs, and a zillion other products.  It’s also great for quick technology fixes.  Say you need a fat HP server for hosting the too-moronic-to-fail Facebook app you plan to launch next […]

Paul / Netcraft:
Hacker Redirects Barack Obama’s site to hillaryclinton.com  —  A security weakness in Barack Obama’s website has been exploited to redirect visitors to Hillary Clinton’s website.  Visitors who viewed the Community Blogs section of the site were instead presented with Clinton’s website …

Paul Mutton / Netcraft:
Hacker Redirects Barack Obama’s site to hillaryclinton.com  —  A security weakness in Barack Obama’s website has been exploited to redirect visitors to Hillary Clinton’s website.  Visitors who viewed the Community Blogs section of the site were instead presented with Clinton’s website …

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
It’s official!  Windows XP SP3 goes RTM today  —  The moment that Windows XP users have been waiting for.  Today Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) goes RTM.  —  What’s in SP3?  —  Here’s what you can expect from XP SP3:  — All previously released Windows XP updates, including security […]