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Note: The on-air broadcast of this episode has been preempted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 for Poetry Face-Off. However, the April 26 broadcast will go to air as normal, and you can listen to the whole episode right now (see below).

Hosts: Nora Young

On this episode of Spark: Words

• Patrick Griffin designs fonts and sells them online at MyFonts
• Virginia Postrel explains the cultural currency of type (full interview)
• Nora and Virginia play Font, Coffee, or Baby Name?
• Jeff MacIntyre uses zenware to focus on his writing (full interview)
• Dane Watkins tests small communities for their collective dysfunctions through his art project Disorder
• Naomi S. Baron on how digital technology affects the way we read and write (full interview)

This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:

• “Feel Break Feel Beat” by p1rj1s
• “Wadidyusay?” by Zap Mama
• “Reverie” and “rt52 rm1” by airtone
• “Valsinha” by Gerador Zero
• “Downtempo Groove” by Neurowaxx
• “OxyMoron” by KCentric

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