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What Gets a Freaky Google Overlord Excited at Night

Ryan Tate · 10/26/09 11:21AM

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a weird guy. A smart programmer whose ideas lifted humanity, but a weird guy nonetheless. A coder who dislikes coffee. An American who knows virtually nothing about baseball. And then there are his evening jollies.

Web Expert Can't Make Website Work

Ryan Tate · 08/31/09 05:21PM

John Batelle couldn't promote his Web summit, for want of a working website; a Wall Street Journal reporter ogled her own book and Bonnie Fuller undermined Angelina Jolie's body image. The Twitterati took self promotion to new places.