Gleanings: Journalism, Cursing and Lit-Crawling…
Reading and playing around with this week…
- The Online Journalism Review has a new weekly feature, discussing technological innovations happening at traditional media outlets. Hmmm, didn’t see that coming.
- The New Republic: Steven Pinker on why we curse. I loved his interview on Forum and will probably buy his new book soon.
- A.V. Club interview with Weird Al Yankovic.
- Have you tried Sidereel? Thus far the best way I’ve found to catch up on tv shows you might have missed. The legality of it? Ehhhh, best not to ask (via Tiffany Shlain).
- How about Mint? It’s my new favorite personal finance software tool after the disastrous inferno that was Wesabe (crashes, missing features, we’ll-get-to-it-someday tech support). Doesn’t have everything I want quite yet, but it’s getting there. And I have faith.
- All hail the Lit Crawl! Going down this evening.