Today I found out about The Mountain Goats because the Denton Police Department started posting everybody they arrest on Twitter and Twitpic, and The Mountain Goats wrote a song called The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton about Jeff and Cyrus, and then I created a Mountain Goats channel on Pandora, because I couldn’t remember my last.fm logon, and I learned about the Weakerthans.

Yesterday, before I found about The Mountain Goats, I found out about @twitterfiction, because there was an article about it on Mashable, which I had started following on Twitter, but because @mashable posted way too often, I unfollowed @mashable and downloaded their free iphone app instead, which I thought would make it easier to keep up with Mashable, but it didn’t, so I deleted the app and put Mashable in my Google Reader, which I like a lot better now that I am using the Google Redesigned add-on for Firefox.

The Young Orphan Herbert

The day before that, before I found out about @twitterfiction and @smallplaces and @arjunbasu, I was updating my online summer class (CMMNX236, Understanding Media) on Blackboard, and I found out about James Grimmelmann’s brief on the Google Book Search project’s proposed settlement, because I was reading Ethan Zuckerman’s post about whether or not it’s a good idea to send mosquito nets to Africa like Oprah, and Zuckerman is connected to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, which I misremembered as the Berkeley Center (which it isn’t) and got linked to Pamela Samuelson, who is Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and who had posted something on O’Reilly Radar about the Google Book Search project and Google not having permission to use the photographs and illustrations in orphaned books — and did you know, although Mickey Rooney didn’t play him in Boy’s Town, that Herbert Hoover was an orphan?

So that’s what I found out about.

And now you can too.