USA Today: Can widgets cure cancer? No, but they can pretty darn near revolutionize everything else, according to this seal-of-approval story with nice quotes from Jeremy Liew and Adam Rifkin.

InfoWeek: Cory Doctorow on FB, privacy, time wasting and stalkers--"Emails from Facebook aren't helpful messages, they're eyeball bait, intended to send you off to the Facebook site, only to discover that Fred wrote "Hi again!" on your "wall."

Valleywag: Is Julia Allison the woman Valleywag loves to hate? If yes, this fluff is a maybe amusing, in a lock your high school buddy in a locker for no reason kind of way. But maybe VW is digging deep for filler this week... Hmmn. I think Julia's a damn good writer, and that's what she's doing-- writing.