In Canada, editing is apparently about to become live entertainment; the hope is that "feelings will be hurt just enough for it to be funny". I share the bemusement of Quillblog's Steven W Beattie, from whom I borrowed the link.

• The word "Ms" has been traced all the way back to 1905, through a combination of digitised 19th-century newspapers and diligent research.

• ... but even the all-conquering algorithms of Google News can't tidy up the sprawl of meanings now attached to "postmodern".

• Those BBC poetry documentaries have increased sales of the Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by 844.4%, reports the Bookseller; it would be nice to believe that this involved the sale of at least 844.4 books, but probably not. (Same detail was picked out by Galleycat, which is less churlish than I am.)

• The latest New York Review of Books has Michael Chabon fearing for the wild places of childhood.

• Finally, an appeal. These linklogs are compiled from my rickety personal collection of bookish RSS feeds; there are more than 60 things on it, but not, I am sure, enough things. I am particularly keen to read more British book bloggers. If you have book-, lit- and language-blog recommendations – or even, maybe, if it's really good, one of your own to plug – you are even more than usually welcome in the comments box...