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Chabon's Amazing Rewrite Adventures (WSJ)
Next week, after five years, four drafts and a title change, Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union arrives in stores. "I shudder now when I think that I would have published the old draft," says Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Russell Pergament Returns With Another Free Daily in Boston (Boston Phoenix)
Pergament still has it — "it" being the freakishly high energy that leads current and former colleagues and collaborators to describe him in near-reverent terms. One calls Pergament a "force of life." Another says he has the "metabolism of a white rat on amphetamines." A third puts it this way: "It's like he drinks 30 Red Bulls every morning — and he never slows down."

Google Passes Microsoft, Yahoo as Most-Visited Site (Bloomberg)
Google Inc. passed Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. to become the owner of the world's most-visited group of Web sites for the first time, a research firm said. Google's sites had 528 million visitors worldwide in March, a 13 percent gain from the same month a year ago, ComScore Inc. said today. Microsoft had 527 million, while Yahoo had 476.3 million, the researcher said.

Teen In AOL Hack Attack (NYP)
It was information superhighway robbery, and now a teen hacker on Staten Island has been taken offline by cops for causing at least $500,000 worth of damage to America Online, authorities said. The 17-year-old special-ed student broke into databases in Manhattan and India, stealing personal customer and employee information and installing viruses, authorities said yesterday.

Has U.S. Media Lost the Will to Dig Deep? (LAT)
Greg Palast: In an e-mail uncovered and released by the House Judiciary Committee last month, Tim Griffin, once Karl Rove's right-hand man, gloated that "no [U.S.] national press picked up" a BBC Television story reporting that the Rove team had developed an elaborate scheme to challenge the votes of thousands of African Americans in the 2004 election. Griffin wasn't exactly right. But he was essentially right. Most of the major U.S. newspapers and the vast majority of television news programs ignored the story even though it came at a critical moment just weeks before the election.

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