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Romance your date with a Monk-inspired duet, or have a private boogie-woogie party in honor of your singledom. This Valentine’s Day The Oxford Comment presents a crash course on the music that speaks all kinds of love, from one of the men that knows it best.

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Kevin Whitehead is long-time jazz critic for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and has written about jazz for many publications, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Down Beat, and the Village Voice. His latest book is Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide.

(Psssst! Wanna hear more blues? Then check out The Ben Daniels Band.)

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I always enjoy doing Linked Up because it gives me a chance to reflect on how I spend my free time on the internet. Apparently this week, I was a bit celebrity-obsessed.

Kevin Bacon is his own biggest fan. [Urlesque]

A subway car that’s 97.5% RECYCLABLE! [Good]

So you want to write a novel? Maybe you should watch this first. [DWKazzie]

And in related news…NaNoWriMo is over! (2,799,449,947 words later…) [GalleyCat]

If only I could actually type this into my browser… [Next Web]

Jay Pharoah, a new cast member of Saturday Night Live, is my favorite impersonator of the moment. (Magic starts at 2:50.) [David Letterman Show]

Can you pass the Kanye West quiz? [New Yorker]

Apparently, pirating music is so last year. [Wired]

1200 Hot Wheels all at once? Yes please! [Kottke]

Justin Bieber is talented in ways you never even imagined. [GawkerTV]

A few weeks ago I had the honor of attending BEA2010 (no not the BEA that happened last week) which was part of the 2010NAB conference. I was there to celebrate the launch of the BBC College of Journalism Website (COJO) a collaboration between OUP and the BBC. The site allows citizens outside of the UK access to the online learning and development materials created for BBC journalists. It is a vast resource filled to the brim with videos, audio clips, discussion pages, interactive modules and text pages covering every aspect of TV, radio, and online journalism. At the conference I had a chance to talk with Kevin Marsh, the Executive Editor of COJO, and I will be sharing clips from our conversation for the next few weeks. This week I have posted a clip in which Kevin shares why he choose journalism as a career. Read Kevin’s blog here. Watch the other videos in this series here and here.

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