We asked via Twitter for suggestions of documentary art websites to include on our virtual newsstand (left). V.V. Ganeshananthan, a novelist (Love Marriage) and journalist, suggests two great sites combining photo, text, and in some cases, audio: Cowbird, a platform open to everybody and all the better for that; and i am, "portraits of Sri Lanka's elders in sound and image." Don't know much about Sri Lanka? You don't have to. i am is a simple but superb example of the democratic documentary possibilities opened up by the internet. Check it out.

Via Nieman Storyboard, we just learned about a great new(ish) radio documentary show, Snap Judgment, hosted by Glynn Washington. We just listened to the latest episode, "The Outsiders" right now, in which a reporter/producer Lea Thau meets a "Man on Fire" -- an amiable, mild-mannered Tibetan comedian who committed self-immolation in protest of China's occupation. That led us to Thau's podcast and this episode with the legendary literary journalist, Gay Talese on his marriage to star editor Nan Talese, scandal, and his book Thy Neighbor's Wife.