Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once asked Sheryl Sandberg if she was a "pom-pom girl." If Mr. O'Neill were alive today, the Facebook COO would tell him she's "a pom-pom girl for feminism," she writes in her forthcoming book.  [WSJ]

Talk about chutzpah. An Indian website plagiarized articles on medical research, then filed a DCMA request with WordPress to pull the originals down. [ArsTech nica]

Hewlett-Packard is planning on "taking full advantage" of Dell's transition to a private company. [Deal Journal]

Somebody had to go and point out that zip, zero, not a single member of the billion-dollar startup club is based in New York. [Crain's New York Business]

Jon Stewart on Vine: "Every time there's a human advancement, it is used almost immediately for porn." [AllThingsD]

"WHAT?" -- everyone. (screencap)

What does actor Christopher Walken have in common with rap legend DMX? Apparently neither gives a single, solitary fuck about keeping up with the Internet.

Last Night, Mr. Walken appeared on the Daily Show to promote his latest flick. Noting that Mr. Walken is hard to get hold of, Jon Stewart asked whether he's a technofile. "No, I missed all that," the oddball actor replied.

But it seems he doesn't simply mean he's disinterested in Twitter. Mr. Stewart followed up: "Are you saying you don't have a computer?" Mr. Walken: "No." Mr. Stewart: "For real?" Mr. Walken: "No, I don't. And you know, if you don't have a computer...you don't have a certain kind of identity. You don't have a footprint in the cloud."

Any information he needs, he gets from his wife.

Mr. Walken doesn't even have a cell phone--except when he's working: "When I make a movie, they hand me one, and I always think, that's nice," he said. "But you know, it's not for me." It's so the director, producers and their ilk can track him down if necessary.

Pity: We bet Mr. Walken would send some epic Snapchats.

The discussion of technology starts at about 3:40:

Mr. Lerer (via lererventures.com)

Huffington Post cofounder Ken Lerer is apparently at work on a stealthy startup aimed to "attract a generation of Web natives who watch Jon Stewart but not CNN or Fox News," reports Peter Kafka at AllThingsD. Internet locals who love Jon Stewart and loathe cable news . . . wait, is he talking about Betabeat??

The startup is so stealth it doesn't even have a name yet, although it's already hiring. The service will function as a joint venture between Lerer Ventures, Mr. Lerer's seed stage VC firm, and Bedrocket Media Ventures, the video studio and incubator he cofounded shortly after selling HuffPo to AOL for a cool $315 million.

According to Mr.Kafka, Mr. Lerer is "telling potential investors and employees" that he will have an active role in the new project, along with Eric Hippeau, the former HuffPo CEO who joined Lerer Ventures as a venture partner last February, and Bedrocket's Brian Bedol. Although we hear Mr. Lerer is "definitely not" pitching investors.

"The service, which will launch this summer in advance of the U.S. presidential elections, will use a mix of livestreaming video and taped reports, and a mix of professionally produced segments along with contributions from amateurs.

While Bedrocket has landed four YouTube “channel” deals for its programming, the new venture won’t be confined to any particular platform. Lerer and company have been promoting the idea that the service will rely heavily on social media like Facebook and Twitter for distribution."

Going out where the people are (on social media), rather than asking them to add another site to their mix and visit your platform? That does sound native! Now if only these "relatively unknown reporters, not established/expensive TV folks" the startup plans on hiring for on-camera work could be as funny as Mr. Stewart.