Top Stories published by suryasays in May of 2008

google go next.

Good article on fortune.com by Adam Lashinsky on where Google goes from here. Definitely worth a read.

It’s a fascinating question. Google was started by smart guys with a good idea. They stumbled into a helluva advertising model that printed money based on intent (goto.com…


dude, stop digging.

Via eotw. Chris Matthews freaking out aside, what a point: how many of these talking heads reference terms, events, etc that they actually have no clue about?

(the background on this is Bush, overseas, seemingly calling out Obama as an appeaser.)


zakaria @ newsweek.

Fareed Zakaria has a helluva cover story for the latest Newsweek. I’m probably biased because his article overlaps massively with the book that I’ve feebly been attempting to write. The article is sensationally titled “The Post-American World”, but the substance of the article is actually…


lahiri.

There’s a short-piece (but impressive as a 2-page spread in the mag) about Jhumpa Lahiri and her new book in Time this week.

Lahiri is one of my favorite authors. I loved Interpreter of Maladies and my mom liked it even more. The Namesake was almost a spiritual experience for me. I read…