I know it can be difficult sometimes to click on a 15-minute video, but this TEDTalk is both timely and worth it -- timely because Apple held its iPhone 5 unveiling yesterday in San Francisco, and worth it because Leslie T. Chang is awesome. She's best known for Factory Girls, by far the best book I've encountered about the people -- the actual people -- who live and work in the factories that churn out muc ...

[caption id="attachment_1624" align="alignnone" width="323" caption="Via Amazon (h/t E)"][/caption] And boy do they land some hard blows. After the jump, excerpts from Evan Osnos, James Fallows, Craig Silverman, Ira Glass and David Carr. ...

[caption id="attachment_1590" align="alignnone" width="441" caption="Astrid Riecken / The Washington Post via Getty Images"][/caption] Picture via Mark Gimein's post at Bloomberg Businessweek in which he essentially retracts his original review: "Usually, 'art' is art and 'journalism' is journalism. When the two meet, it’s rarely on the same stage. An exception is the work of monologuist Mike Daisey." Mike ...