The hoary joke in the literary world, based on Dreams From My Father, was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer. – James Fallows
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far weve come from the cuddly old Im Feeling Lucky Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Googles evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like. – James Fallows