Uploaded October 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Lexicographer Erin McKean sews dresses and knits words. The former editor-in-chief of the Oxford New American Dictionary, Erin founded Reverb, an app for exploring news through words, and Wordnik, an online meta-dictionary with billions of words and an open API that spawned hundreds of mashups and served over 1.5 billion calls.

Recorded in September 2014 at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love. For more, visit http://xoxofest.com.

Video thumbnail by Ian Linkletter: flickr.com/photos/linkletter/15314400301

Intro Music: Broke for Free, "Only Instrumental"
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