The New Yorker (Sept. 24) -- In the seventies, when Ray Ozzie was a student at Illinois, he used an online chat-room service called Talkomatic, which people nicknamed Talko. Later, Ozzie became famous for creating Lotus Notes, the collaboration software for office workers; Bill Gates reportedly called him “one of the top-five programmers in the universe. Also: The New York Times (Sept. 23).