Village Voice blogger Foster Kamer is not known for holding back his criticism (Just ask Cablevision’s Jimmy Dolan.) So I was a little nervous when my Google News alert warned me that NY1 had popped up on Kamer’s blog.

If you’ve got an iPhone, you can take NY1 on the road with you now. The NY1 News app was unveiled today in the iTunes app store. It delivers text and video versions of the top stories and up-to-date weather forecasts. But I have decided the most important feature is that you can view my New York City “In the Papers” segment from anywhere.

Today is National Bike-to-Work Day in the US. But no matter how many people take part in the US, it will be nothing compared to this impressive time-lapse video of a bicycle rush hour in the Dutch city of Utrecht. It’s been getting some attention in the UK where it has apparently sparked up a lively discussion about the merits of a bike commuting culture.

Attention Tourists: We have a city to run here, so get out of the fast lane. A line has been drawn in the sidewalk leading New Yorkers to the left, and tourists to the right. Some anonymous artists divided a section of Fifth Avenue with a white line down the middle of the sidewalk between 22nd and 23rd streets.

I saw a great subway ad from Panasonic today. It says: “If it has a ringtone, it’s not a camera.” We’ve all been there. You take what seems to be a great picture on your camera phone. But then when you see it displayed on the big screen you wish that was the day you’d brought your real camera instead. That’s kind of how I feel today.

Soon, he won’t just be singing about the paparazzi - he’ll be on their radar. The 12-year-old Oklahoma boy, who became an Internet sensation after a video of him performing Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” at a school talent show went viral, has got himself a record deal. The singer’s Interscope label has just signed Greyson Chance. Though the details of his deal are being kept quiet, the New York Post says he’s signed on with Madonna’s manager.

Sorry to mislead you but Tiger, Lindsay and anything Apple-related have proven to be our best attention-grabbing tricks, an important skill to possess in a world where headline writing has been turned on its, well, head.  In a news industry dominated by RSS feeds, Facebook and Twitter, David Carr of the New York Times describes them as ?naked little creatures that have to go out into the world to stand and fight on their own.?  At Pat’s Papers, we try not to become to beholden to the Internet search gods. But after a couple well-formed headlines significantly bumped us up in Google results, we found it hard to resist. The upshot is that our most promising stories are often sent to the RSS feed cloaked in the headline equivalent of a burka.

I’ve written several columns this year about American Idol, the most recent of which observed that it’s been a little off this season. But it’s still one of my favorite shows and one of the few I clear my schedule to watch.  In the Sunday New York Times, EW.com blogger Michael Slezak delivers a perfect summary of what’s right about Idol.

The full-page ad in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal says “We (heart) Apple.” But it doesn’t seem like there’s much love behind this shot at Apple’s anti-Flash policy for the iPhone and iPad.