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“It’s all one book you write anyway. At night you dream six dreams. But ARE they six dreams?” —Philip Roth bit.ly/1wzlwsd

I just did Edwin Morris's show - only one minute long. listen to the end.. he improvises everything. amazing briefs.fm/episodes/779

just watched Spotlight. so neat that "Ruffalo ruffalo Ruffalo ruffalo ruffalo ruffalo ruffalo" is a grammatical English sentence

who the hell is Lance Journalist and why'd we lock him up?

I wrote for the Atlantic about lessons learned building a Google Reader clone, e.g. the perils of media unbundling: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

You gotta read this essay by George Saunders, "The Braindead Megaphone," about media: as1020.pbworks.com/f/saunders-bra…. Wowzer. via @JonnyWaldman

Excited to share this story I wrote for The Atlantic about Google's effort to build the greatest library in history theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” James Somers theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"You've seen Memento" would be a pretty good tattoo

what's more important: the American political scene, or the way book clubs are typically run? YOU DECIDE. my latest: jsomers.net/blog/book-clubs

A friend and I built a typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc: jsomers.net/blog/docwriter

Inside the New York Public Library's archives: long.fm/ZZY3zca (James Somers, The Village Voice)

Another excellent and very fun analysis from Todd Schneider toddwschneider.com/posts/taxi-vs-…

This is a fucking crazy story, masterfully written & deeply researched. If u liked The Imitation Game u will ❤️THE WOMAN WHO SMASHED CODES. x.com/jfagone/status…

Started working on this story about why software fails, and how to fix it, two years ago—and now it's finally here! theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Jason Fagone's "The Woman Who Smashed Codes" offers the story of a fascinating woman in perilous times. n.pr/2xG5F7f

Had fun talking with Renegade Newsletter about my Village Voice story on archivists: mailchi.mp/fd09b2e0c819/t…

Saving the World From the Code Apocalypse long.fm/ZZY3zcE (@Jsomers, The Atlantic)

I wrote about the future of the scientific paper for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Read the eerie story — Caroline Lester‘s first for the Atlantic — of how a class of robots designed to carry stuff for soldiers mutated, one small modification at a time, into weapons: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…