Well, I'm digging mine lately, and trying to get as good a compendium of music on it that I can. Nice to shuffle your songs and always be pleasantly surprised. Here's the history:

Birth of the iPod, Wired Magazine (by Leander Kahney)

My favorite line in the article is: "The output of a committee is a function of the quality of its members and how they're led." Something to think about.

Here's part 2 of that Alexander Cockburn interview by LAFCO:




And a curious article about iPods and the suspicion we have that they "know" what they're doing:

How Random Is iPod Shuffle?