Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf and Alexis Madrigal make interesting observations.

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Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic likened the chat to a "factory tour" because it did nothing to elicit anything substantive from Mr Obama.

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The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal wrote a column called " Hey Reddit, Enough Boston Bombing Vigilantism, " and followed it up with a story on how the names of two innocent people got repeated in a viral loop on social media.

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Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic.

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