Are you Scrabbling or Crosswordpuzzling on Sunday?
You might be working on a book, an essay or an online story as I am right now?
Have you tried Wordnik as your little helper?
What's it all about? It describes itself as 'an ongoing project devoted to discovering
all the words and everything about them', not as a static thing but keeping up with them as they evolve.
Quite an ambitious task it is.
It all started at TED where Erin McKean had a chance encounter with the deep pockets of Roger McNamee.
I love words, reading them, writing them, understanding them.
I can see the passion behind a venture like Wordnik yet I cannot quite figure how it could become a money maker.
Maybe it is just treated as a worthy cause by its backers, the new age of enlightenment.
Found my way to Wordnik via Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley (Claire Cain Miller, NY Times, July 5)…