And Data for All: Why Obama’s Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov’t Info Online

The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. For anyone to see. On Vivek Kundra and Data.gov

Source: Wired
Published: Jun 18, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,523 words)

How Good (or Not Evil) Is Google?

Years after cracking the very code of the Web to lucrative ends, Google may be in the midst of trying to conjure the most complicated algorithm yet: to wit, can goodness, or at least a stated intention not to be evil, scale along with the enterprise?

Author: David Carr
Published: Jun 21, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,197 words)

Interview with Heart’s Nancy Wilson

The lightning bolt came out of the heavens and struck Ann and me the first time we saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. My family was living on the marine base in Camp Pendleton, California, and we’d all gathered around the little black-and-white TV at our grandmother’s in La Jolla. Most people didn’t have color sets at home back then. There’d been so much anticipation and hype about the Beatles that it was a huge event, like the lunar landing: that was the moment Ann and I heard the call to become rock musicians. I was seven or eight at the time.

Source: The Believer
Published: Aug 28, 2007
Length: 23 minutes (5,893 words)

The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation

Profile of The New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson

Source: The Nation
Published: Jun 17, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,131 words)

The Operator

Why is the most powerful health care lobbyist playing nice? Story on Karen Ignagni

Published: Jul 1, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,984 words)

Jodi Picoult and the Anxious Parent

In the novels of Jodi Picoult, terrible things happen to children of middle-class parentage: they become terminally ill, or are maimed, gunned down, killed in accidents, molested, abducted, bullied, traumatized, stirred to violence. The assault on any individual family is typically mounted from angles multiple and unforeseen.

Published: Jun 17, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,893 words)

Joe Klein: What I Saw at the Revolution

Author: Joe Klein
Source: Time
Published: Jun 18, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,519 words)

Hey, kids, get off my lawn!

How my father’s obsession with his front yard mowed over my childhood

Source: Salon
Published: Jun 19, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,436 words)

Ripped. (Or Torn Up?)

“Every tennis lover would like, someday, to play like (Roger) Federer,” Philippe Bouin told me. “But every man wants to be Rafael Nadal. Which is different.”

Published: Jun 17, 2009
Length: 33 minutes (8,294 words)

Cholly, They’ll Never Call You A Hayseed In This Town Again

Bringing a World Series trophy to a title-starved city can do that for a guy, but Charlie Manuel—national hero in Japan, hitting savant, friend to the Amish, Ted Williams and pretty much everyone in between—was a worldly man long before you ever knew.

Published: Jun 22, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,369 words)