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.

Source: Wired
Published: May 22, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,878 words)

Jon Peters: A Book Proposal

“It should be called ‘Dickhead.’ Why the former Sony Pictures mogul’s proposal sets a new low.”

Published: May 21, 2009
Length: 31 minutes (7,958 words)

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.”

Published: May 20, 2009
Length: 28 minutes (7,110 words)

Backward Runs Newsweek

Blah blah newsmag remake blah blah.

Source: New Republic
Published: May 21, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,077 words)

Cheney’s speech ignored some inconvenient truths

Source: McClatchy
Published: May 21, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,405 words)

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.

Source: Daily Beast
Published: May 22, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,158 words)

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.

Source: Daily Beast
Published: May 20, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,360 words)

In the Spirit of Spider-Man, the Border Patrol Casts Its Web

Homeland Security Tries Gizmos Like ‘the Squid’ to Ensnare Bad Guys

Published: May 21, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,200 words)

Is Homophobia the New Anti-Semitism?

As the gay-rights movement has been globalized, so has religious and political opposition to homosexuality.

Published: May 19, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,456 words)

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.

Published: May 19, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,429 words)