As noted, this Techcrunch story on a new startup called Skillshare was assembled in a highly unusual manner. (Or a very usual manner.)

Maura: So… Maura: I don't really know a lot about the topic, but are there more pornographic films that are "parodies" of other films now than before? Or do we just know about them more because of the internet etc? Choire: Over to you, Alex.

Choire: whoa http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127913967087475000 Balk: Come ON. Choire: RIGHT?

About this time last year, an editor of this site and I were emailing back and forth about fun things to maybe write. (The formula was basically: negligible numbers of comments + high degree of personal satisfaction = let's rock.) Along those lines, he proposed a column: "Also do you want to write about weird music in general??? Stuff that editors are like 'Ha um NO THANKS.' Difficult Listening Hour with SCW. Heh." This was the first time anyone had proposed, to me, a recurring feature based on a piece from smack dab in the middle of Laurie Anderson's 7-hour performance work "United States I-IV". (The clip of "Difficult Listening [...]