Welcome to 27th edition of The Three Things, the weekly update of three links, podcasts, videos, or books you can’t miss from Michael Schechter (Honora, A Better Mess), Howie Goldfarb (Sky Pulse Media), and me!

For those of you new to this series, The Three Things arrives in your inbox on Sunday mornings (unless you don’t suscribe, but that can easily be fixed if you hurry over and enter your email address or add to your RSS feed) so you have some extra time to spend perusing the obscure content we’ve curated for you (and one another) before your week begins and deadlines, meetings, and work takes over.

This week we have thoughts on passion projects, democracy, and drama behind the scenes at a popular morning show.

I am taking a blogging vacation (read: Not blogging, not vacationing so I can write blog posts) so Lindsay Bell is going to take over for me while I’m out. She’ll have fun links for you to peruse and I’ll see you back here on April 28. (more…)