Priorities

• Michele Bachmann is asking supporters to fill out a survey to identify 2012 conservative priorities. The New York Times editorial page editor offered what his answers would be.

Election 2012: Wall Street and Google are top donors

• The Obama campaign and the Democratic groups affiliated with it raised $43.6 million in April, down from $53 million the month before. Ninety-eight percent of the donations were less than $250 in April and the average donation came in at $50.23, campaign manager Jim Messina said in a video released on Twitter, Reuters reported. The Boston Globe reported that while the top five donor groups to Romney's campaign are financial institutions, the top five to the Obama campaign include individuals and PACs affiliated with high technology giants Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Around the web

• ClickZ recently looked at how Indiana's Republican primary played out in online advertising.

• Innovation PAC, a committee dedicated in support of small business investment research, has released what Colin Campbell of Politicker called a "risqué web ad" targeting New York City Democratic Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez. "'Nydia I'm home early,' a Democratic cartoon donkey declares as he enters his house, only to hear sexual phrases like 'That's right, who's your daddy' coming from an upstairs room," the ad begins, according to Campbell.

• Nieman Lab has another look at the election game planned by MTV and several partners.

• The focus of the next Knight News Challenge will be on data.

• In a lengthy article examining the police investigation into the Trayvon Martin case, Serge Kovaleski from the New York Times notes that difficulty accessing Martin's cell phone was one important challenge of the investigation:

  Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Martins, said that Mr. Martin was carrying a T-Mobile Comet phone and that the police contacted his father a day or two after the shooting to get the password, but he did not know it. A law enforcement official said that the phone had died not long after the police retrieved it, and that it took days for the authorities to get a charger and an expert to try to get into the device. If the police had been able to get access to it, they could have interviewed Mr. Martin's friend about what he had told her in those final moments of his life and what else she had heard. The police eventually subpoenaed Mr. Martin's cellphone records, but did not receive them in a timely fashion.

• New York Senator Charles Schumer wants to make it a crime to circumvent a new system to disable stolen cell phones.

• In Foreign Policy, Rebecca MacKinnon writes that in Europe, private Internet companies are increasingly becoming the enforcers of the Internet.

• Massachusetts has created fake websites as a way to warn people about fake websites.

• The new president of MIT helped lead the institution's online education efforts as provost.

• A photojournalist who had been charged with disorderly conduct for standing in the middle of the street blocking traffic during an Occupy Wall Street protest, was acquitted, in large part because video from journalist Tim Pool showed that the defendant was on the sidewalk. At Media Shift, Josh Stearns writes about a joint effort of several organizations to protect the "right to record" by all, including citizen journalists, with a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department.

• Nicholas Kristof and Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, are taking part in a Google Hangout this afternoon.

• At meetings at the European Commission and European Parliament, Vint Cerf — now Google's Internet evangelist — emphasized the importance of the open Internet and warned against allowing increased control from the United Nations following the International Telecommunications Union summit in December.

• At the always lively traditional Prime Minister's Questions in British Parliament, Labour Opposition leader Ed Miliband mocked Prime Minister David Cameron, who had recently been reported to have sent text messages to a Rupert Murdoch executive, by suggesting that Cameron, having avoided meeting with Francois Hollande prior to his election as president, should send him a text message. "It's a shame [Mr Cameron] didn't see the French President three months ago when he was in the UK," he said, "but I'm sure a text message and 'LOL' will go down well!" Miliband said. Cameron had reportedly thought it stood for Lots of Love. ""Perhaps I've been overusing my mobile phone," Cameron responded. "But at least as Prime Minister I know how to use it, rather than just throw it at the people who work for me!" apparently a reference to a rumor about his predecessor Gordon Brown.

• Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron will hold a video conference call today ahead of the G8 meeting at Camp David.

• Der Spiegel has another look at the prominence of Italian comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo:

  Grillo's rise to become Italy's best-known political upstart would have been inconceivable without the Internet. For years, the son of a small business owner has operated the most widely read blog south of the Alps, which receives 300,000 clicks per day. Using his blog, he mobilized hundreds of thousands of Italians against the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail line, which is highly controversial in Italy, and organized protest events like the "Kiss My Ass Day" to protest against members of parliament with criminal records.

• The Australian Federal Police are investigating the leak of a video to YouTube that showed former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd swearing while trying to pre-record a message in Chinese several years ago. ""Tell them to cancel this meeting at six o'clock, I don't have any f***ing patience to do this. The f***ing Chinese interpreter up there - oh just f***ing hopeless," he says in the footage, according to Australian channel ABC.