This is undoubtedly an important tech story, but alone it doesn't have much to do with poetry. A few days ago we intended to publish an article on this blog pointing out the vast amount of metadata the Gray Lady released beginning last year on data.nytimes.com. This is basically an online version of the fantastic New York Times Index, which is essentially a list of all the topics used in the newspaper going back decades. It's an important document for vocabulary in American English, and certainly having this information available as linked open data, along the lines of Project Gutenberg, is something of interest to anyone who deals in words.
