New literature passage up 

I put up a new podcast tonight in my Who Said literature game. Listen.

Simon and Schuster podcasts 

I think I heard about these before, but had not listened to them. What a great idea to have the authors talk. Simon Says podcasts.

The Economist hands out subscriptions to bloggers 

It seems like a good idea to give bloggers free subscriptions to premium content, but if they can't point to it, what's the utility? Maybe the magazine thinks bloggers will say things like, "Check out this article. You have to pay to see it, but there is ever so much good reading there all the time that if I were you I'd pop for the 20 bucks a month. Do it today!"