Now that San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein has finished firing a quarter of his staff, he's ready to shake things up at his troubled paper. How's he going to do it? Why, "Journalism of Action"! Tell us more!

NICK DOUGLAS — The general geek public associates one name with Digg: Kevin Rose. He's the social site's public face, and no wonder: he spent years as a TV show co-host, and he's the younger and edgier of Digg's two co-founders. So in the aftermath of Digg's decision to let users illegally publish a code, why is his partner and CEO Jay Adelson giving all the interviews? He's the one who talked to the New York Times, Fortune, Wired News, and BusinessWeek. Because they got funneled through the same PR firm that I did.

In an interview with Barbara Walters, Fox News harridan Bill O'Reilly claims that the FBI told him he was on Al Qaeda's death list. Over at Radar, however, a little reportage reveals, shockingly, that O'Reilly sense of self might be inflated.

My god, how did we miss this tidbit from Tuesday's Apple Expo:

First news item today is from the New York Times, a piece called "Philanthropy Google's Way: Not the Usual." Smells like bullshit! Let's read it!