Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
J Allard and Microsoft group try to get patent on a ‘magic wand’  —  Attention Harry Potter, we’ll be needing some prior art.  —  We’ve been hearing rumors and reading speculation lately about what Microsoft executive J Allard has been doing.  Apart from reports about a possible Zune/Xbox linkup …

Kos / Daily Kos:
Clinging to a dead biz model for dear life  —  For two lawyers who supposedly specialize in media and First Amendment law, these guys were so full of stupid I’m embarrassed for them.  You see, they have just the legislative solutions to the newspaper industry’s ills!

Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Cellphone Makers Hope for a Blockbuster Summer  —  The hype machine started months ago.  Opening weekends are upon us.  High up in executive suites, the hope is that this summer’s new releases will cause lines to snake around the block.  —  The cellphone industry looks a lot like the […]

David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Social Publishing Site Scribd Adds E-Commerce; 80 Percent Revenues To Publishers  —  Document sharing site Scribd will begin beta tests of an e-commerce platform today, an effort to tap into publishers’ increasing interest in charging consumers directly for digital content.

JKK / jkkmobile:
Asus Eee PC T91 dissected  —  Lets see…  SSD is 50mm so we should be able to use 3rd party SSDs for Dell mini 9.  —  Right from GPS board is place for SIM card reader.. so if you swap GPS card with 3G + GPS and solder the SIM slot you […]

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Jump Into The Stream  —  Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes.  Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages.  The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages.  Web companies large and small are embracing this stream.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did The UK Press Con A 104-Year-Old Woman Into Joining Twitter For Digg Bait?  —  There’s a popular story on Digg right now about a 104-year-old British woman who uses Twitter.  It’s an obvious headline: “World’s oldest Tweeter talks cuppas and casserole.”  It’s Digg bait.

Steven A. Ballmer / New York Times:
Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft  —  This interview of Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.  —  Q. Are there areas you want to improve as a leader?  —  A. I race too much.  My brain races too much, so […]

Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
New Danger Mouse CD Released As A Blank CD-R Due To Legal Fight With EMI  —  If you follow copyright issues, you’re no doubt aware of Danger Mouse.  He’s the DJ who got quite a lot of attention a few years back for creating one of the very first mainstream mashups […]

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
First, stop the lawyers  —  There’s some dangerously wrong-headed lobbying from media lawyers in today’s Washington Post arguing for new laws to protect old media from new technology.  Bruce Sanford and Bruce Brown of Baker Hostetler argue that Congress should: