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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.

What Google's Eric Schmidt Reads

By Alexis Madrigal
Mar 7 2011, 11:36 AM ET Comment

Our own John Hudson got outgoing Google chief Eric Schmidt to fess up that he reads Stieg Larsson, as well as a selection of the finest magazines, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch. Here's all the sources he mentioned that weren't newspapers:

I check Google News a lot, and I have Google alerts set up for topics I'm especially interested in--like tech generally, or obviously Google.

I have several magazine subscriptions and read The Economist, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair on a regular basis.

In terms of books, I mostly read non-fiction. I don't use an e-reader--I stick to paper and ink. The most recent non-fiction book I read is Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. I do sometimes read fiction; like many people out there, I recently read the Millennium series -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and so forth--by Stieg Larsson.

TechCrunch is a good place to get breaking tech news or Silicon Valley rumors, so I check that frequently to see what they're up to. I also read a variety of more specialized websites and blogs, which I usually find through Google search.

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