OK, if you can't tell already, I'm pulling all of todays links from the Kottke site which was guest-blogged (quite spectacularly) last week by Joel Turnipseed.

The last link from this batch from me is going to be his interview with Jessica Hagy who I guess is known for her bloggo-meme-exploded index card site. I had never heard of her or seen her index card site but she apparently got an agent and book deal with Penguin because of it. This is the internet at it's best: someone using an out-of-the-box blogging tool (blogger) with standard templates -- in other words: a minimal amount of energy on the part of the content producer to engage with technology -- producing consistently solid content regularly, and coming out way, way on top. It's nice to see that high quality content and good ideas coupled with a little bit of luck are still able to rise above the muck out there.