What We Like Right Now
Our favorite picks for the week of March 23, curated by Slate writers and editors.

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Here are our favorite stories, podcasts, and videos from around the Web for the week of March 23.
- The Slate Group vice chairman Dan Check likes …
“A Wave of Distributed Content Is Coming—Will Publishers Sink or Swim?” by Joshua Benton, Nieman Journalism Lab
“Publishers are facing some big choices.”
- Assistant editor Miriam Krule likes …
“Let’s Talk (Frankly) About Sex” by Bonnie Rochman, New York Times Magazine
“ ‘Why are there so many mean words about a woman's body parts?’ These questions say SO MUCH.”
- Senior technology writer Will Oremus likes …
“The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was” by Steven Levy, Backchannel
“This Steven Levy piece on Steve Jobs is very Steven Levy-y.”
- Slate’s Bitwise columnist David Auerbach likes …
“Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School” by Alastair Sloan, Newsweek
“Excellent write-up of the bizarre Wikipedia ‘Wifione’ fake-Indian-business-school scandal.”
- News editor Chad Lorenz likes …
“Inside Gap’s Plan to Get Back Into Your Drawers” by Danielle Sacks, Fast Company
“Fascinated by Fast Company’s look at where The Gap went wrong and how this guy is going to save it.”