Lifeline for Monday, March 22, 2010

Rebooting the News #45
  Jay was sick today so I scrambled and got the great Jonathan Glick to fill his chair in the studio.
  Glick started his career at iVillage then became the chief technical guy at the NY Times under Martin Nisenholtz. We worked together then but didn't know each other. After several stops he's now landed as CEO of a startup called TLists. (If Scoble doesn't already know about them, he will soon!)
  http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/reboot10Mar22.mp3
  In today's podcast we talked about Internet platforms and the struggles small vendors to co-exist and vendors to be fair. TLists exists in Twitter's ecosystem. It was a hot discussion and left many questions unanswered. Hope to have Jon on the show again (and this is a reminder that we should try to rotate through the founders of some of NY's new crop of tech CEOs, they're all interesting people).
  And to Jay --> Hope you feel better sooon! (Everyone seems to get sick after SXSW.)
Rebooting the News #44
  Another "keeper" -- this week Jay is on the phone from SXSW and I'm in the studio at NYU.
  http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/reboot10Mar15.mp3
  Topics include: Jake Tapper, problems with WordPress, Thursday evening meetup, Dave pre-orders an iPad, Jessica Roy, general mayhem.
Instapaper in River2
  Released today: A new preference that allows you to quickly send any story from River2 to Instapaper so you can read it later on an iPhone or web browser. Once you have it set up, each item on your River2 home page will have an Instapaper icon. When you click it, the item is routed to Instapaper for later viewing on the web or in its iPhone app.
  How to set up
  1. Launch the OPML Editor.
  2. Bring river2.root to the front and choose Update Front Tool from the Tools menu.
  3. Choose Update opml.root from the File menu. (There are a couple of updates to make this feature work.)
  4. Visit the River2 Prefs page. Near the bottom is a new set of prefs for Instapaper. Here's a screen shot:
  5. Click the checkbox to enable the feature. You must enter a username, but the password is optional. If you've set a password on Instapaper, you must enter that password here.
  6. Click Submit.
  Personal note`
  I wasn't an Instapaper user before adding this feature, thanks to elasticthreads for suggesting it. Now I love it. It's very useful way to save stuff to read later.