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
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?
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.
The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation
Profile of The New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson
The Operator
Why is the most powerful health care lobbyist playing nice? Story on Karen Ignagni
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.
Joe Klein: What I Saw at the Revolution
Hey, kids, get off my lawn!
How my father’s obsession with his front yard mowed over my childhood
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.”
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.
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