Sunday Shards (April 16, 2006):
In the reading queue this week…
*Charlie Chaplin was born today, Easter Sunday, in 1889. He died on Christmas Day, 1977 (via The Writer’s Almanac).
*Artful takedown of Michiko Kakutani in Slate (via TEV).
*The Financial Times analyzes Web 2.0 (via Micropersuasion).
*Why two tier book pricing needs to go (via New Pages).
*Erin McKean was the guest blogger at Powell’s this week, where she had this great essay about the future of dictionaries. I’m a huge fan.
*Merlin’s Mann’s five suugesed Flickr tags. My favorite was #3. ““My Defenseless Child In A Funny Shirt I Made Him Wear.” (via Kottke).
*Valleywag charts what your social network choice says about you.
*I had such fun doing this list that I’m going to write another real soon. Maybe even today.
*Film Festival starts this week. Yay!