While you were sleeping, from Berlin: Dave Winer: “I predict a return to blogging as people discover the power of being able to finish a thought, and to link to another site without going through an intermediary.”

Superbug: H1N1 flu and swine surveillance - more relevance for MRSA: ”We cannot anticipate the movement of pathogens from animals to humans if we don't know what's in the animals to start with.”

Anil Dash: The Future of Facebook Usernames: ”A white guy named David discovers every variation of his name on Facebook is already taken, and finally reconsiders the condescending contempt he's always had for black people who give their kids unique names. This tiny bit of racial reconsideration is the only unequivocally good news to come out of the Facebook Usernames launch.”

Nicholas Lemann at Columbia Journalism School Graduation: ”You will not only have to reinvent journalism, you will also have to reinvent the conversation about journalism, making it less internal to the profession, and more interactive with the rest of society.”

Thinking the thinkable: Dan Conover's vision for the future of journalism: Something to read.

Tort reform is bad medicine for residents of Hawaii: Another piece by my father, Joseph, this one about tort reform in Hawaii.