Here's some bits and pieces to bring you up to speed from the long weekend:

• A very in-depth look at the NAB's latest hired guns: Bluewater Strategies [Technology Liberation Front]
• Senator Kohl's mistaken view on the audio entertainment market [Digital Media Wire]
• It's been a rough May for XM [Washington Post]
• What's up with Radio? [Zatz Not Funny]

Just some quick news bits for today...

• FCC approves the Apple iPhone... she's coming folks, is the industry ready? [AppleInsider]
• FCC Chief backs a la carte at cable industry - "Fundamentally, I support consumers’ ability to pick and choose the products they want," said FCC chairman Kevin Martin [Reclaim the Media]
  
• Opie taking suspension hard? Nah. Taking nap [New York Daily News]
  
• Retirement Living program knocked from Sirius Satellite Radio [Baltimore Business Journal]
  
• Gibson forced to apologize for airing joke about "ejaculating in a woman's eye" [Think Progress]
  

I took a brief vacation last week in an attempt to recharge my batteries (though, I think I'm more exhausted now than when I left). And while I tried to post at least a couple entries while I was gone, here's a few more items of interest that were missed:

• "Why Satellite Radio Will Fail" - The Fool lives up to its name. (warning: highly opinionated, and lame, article ahead) [Motley Fool]
• Survey: iPhone awareness is huge, but desire to buy is little (yes, price matters) [MobileMag]
• DirecTV ships their portable receiver: DirecTV Sat-Go (pretty cool, though highly niche) [TWICE]
• DIYMedia rants about XM's repeaters (paints an uber-bleak picture) [DIYMedia.net]
• Westwood One soon to be on the auction block (food for thought: what's the difference between national syndication and national broadcasting?) [NY Post]

If you think I missed something, g'head and email me, and I'll add it to this post as an overall catch-up post.