Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
Why does Google even need a chief economist? The simplest reason is that the company is an economy unto itself. The ad auction, marinated in that special sauce, is a seething laboratory of fiduciary forensics, with customers ranging from giant multinationals to dorm-room entrepreneurs, all billed by the world’s largest micropayment system.
Jon Peters: A Book Proposal
“It should be called ‘Dickhead.’ Why the former Sony Pictures mogul’s proposal sets a new low.”
Heeeere’s . . . Conan!!!
On a chilly Thursday night in late January, four weeks from his last show as host of “Late Night,” Conan O’Brien was strumming a guitar behind his beat-up desk in his cluttered office at Rockefeller Center, figuring out how to say goodbye. After 16 years and 2,725 shows, O’Brien would be moving, along with almost all his staff, to Universal City in California to take over “The Tonight Show.”
Backward Runs Newsweek
Blah blah newsmag remake blah blah.
Cheney’s speech ignored some inconvenient truths
Mother and Son, Wars and Recipes
War correspondent Matt McAllester fled into the fields of battle to escape an alcoholic, mentally ill mother. In his memoir, Bittersweet, he tries to make amends with her, in the kitchen.
The Mystery Man of the Edwards Affair
As Elizabeth Edwards talks (and talks) about her husband’s affair, The Daily Beast provides an exclusive look at one central character who remains a cipher: “Uncle Fred” Baron, the lawyer who paid for Edwards’ mistress to move across the country.
In the Spirit of Spider-Man, the Border Patrol Casts Its Web
Homeland Security Tries Gizmos Like ‘the Squid’ to Ensnare Bad Guys
Is Homophobia the New Anti-Semitism?
As the gay-rights movement has been globalized, so has religious and political opposition to homosexuality.
Co West, O’Brien!
On June 1, Mr. O’Brien will debut as the new host of NBC’s Tonight Show. And since February, the majority of his New York staff has relocated to Los Angeles, where NBC is currently putting the finishing touches on a new Tonight Show theater. It’s housed in Stage One of Universal Studios, the original home of The Jack Benny Show and the home, for a time, of Knight Rider.
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