Gleanings: Microlending, Robert Altman and Fred Willard
- Kiva.org is a mircocredit company that facilitates loans to small business owners in the third world. I will be checking them out when I make my cheritable donations this year (via Michelle Richmond).
- The New York Times’s obituary for Robert Altman who died last week at 81. A gift to American Cinema, he will be deeply missed.
- Acclaimed documentary The Corporation will be released on BitTorrent for free (via Chris Messina).
- Some thoughts on HBO’s digital strategy which is safe to characterize at this point as, “not much.” (via Medialoper)
- Future Rock Hall.com is a blog and directory dedicated to speculating on future inductees into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
- Fred Willard talks to Radar Magazine.