An existential question for our times. Am I really me if I can't prove it to Delta Airlines? Unable to access miles because I forgot my "security" answers. Fix your bogus security protocol Delta and serve your customers as if you were run by humans and not computers.

“My ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.” —Milan Kundera tpr.ly/gu4d50

"He could be our dog. But he is not our dog. So he barks at us." Is any writer as suited to Twitter as Lydia Davis? n.pr/PSL6KN

“We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard. RIP

Why aren't more people alarmed by the falling numbers of reporters? publicintegrity.org/2014/04/11/145… via @PublicI

“We all wake up at three o’clock in the morning saying ‘How am I gonna get out of here? … Can I start over?’” tpr.ly/1kXVN90

A print newspaper generated by robots: Is this the future of media or just a sideshow? gigaom.com/2014/04/14/a-p… via GigaOm

"No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry."Basho

"...el desafío mayor para nosotros ha sido la insuficiencia de los recursos convencionales para hacer creíble nuestra vida." RIP Gabo

Stephen Buckley, dean of faculty at Poynter Institute, to lead youth initiative in Africa tampabay.com/news/business/… via Tampa Bay Times

Knausgaard became the literary star of 2014 by writing about his personal life. Now he hates himself for it. via TNR newrepublic.com/article/117245…

The Upshot, Vox and FiveThirtyEight: data journalism's golden age, or TMI? | James Ball gu.com/p/3ztz9/tw via The Guardian

should read 8 Reasons Why You Should HIRE a Journalist; many more reasons you shouldn't DATE one! scoopempire.com/date-journalis… via Scoop Empire

Multilinguals Have Multiple Personalities via TNR newrepublic.com/article/117485…

Trolls, trolls, trolls. A Eulogy for Twitter - Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Using a foreign language changes moral decisions | UChicago News shar.es/S7NpB via ShareThis

George Szirtes: what being bilingual means for my writing and identity gu.com/p/3zzd6/tw via The Guardian

Do you think journalism is heading in the wrong direction? jimromenesko.com/2014/05/05/sur…

The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-le… via Nieman Lab

New York Times internal report: We read it so you don't have to - Digiday shar.es/V21Ag via Digiday