Todd Simmons

Disney wants in on the Farmville action, acquires social gaming company Playdom (a Zynga competitor) for $750 million: http://nyti.ms/aceMUN

Finally saw the documentary Beautiful Losers: http://beautifullosers.com Very personal look at the evolution of a DIY street art movement.

The Library of Congress has expanded consumers’ rights to circumvent DRM in certain situations: http://bit.ly/a4ypQw Hooray for fair use!

Farhad Manjoo with Slate thinks the iPhone 4 “antenna-gate” press conference was condescending: http://bit.ly/cM0eBU I tend to agree.

More NPR tributes to the late journalist Dan Schorr: http://n.pr/bcwSow http://n.pr/bQbJxe http://n.pr/cJhCEV Proper send-off for a legend.

Dan Schorr, an amazing journalist, has died at 93. A Murrow boy, on Nixon’s enemies list, refused to reveal sources, etc: http://n.pr/aXNfCU

Interesting article about burnout in the world of online journalism: http://nyti.ms/95aiTA Writers face pressure to get scoops & page views.

Happy Birthday Marshall McLuhan! The influential media theorist was born on this day in 1911. Wired has a great tribute http://bit.ly/bQR3uh

Juicy rumors from Wired on the difficult relationship between AT&T and Apple: http://bit.ly/c5yxqr Blame each other for network issues, etc.

The “Game Play” theater festival running now in Brooklyn features comedy and experimental plays based on video games: http://nyti.ms/bPIEru