By Chris Bell

Surf's up, and in this week's TBI Surf Report, Poets&Writers Magazine talks to poet Bill Manhire about the 121 New Zealand Poems anthology. In the interview, Manhire explains why the book doesn't include the poets' names alongside the poems; instead, only on the contents page and in the end notes.Meanwhile, out in the big, bad world (via Boing Boing) Andy Ihnatko of the Sun Times says Microsoft's new Zune digital music player is just plain dreadful. "I've spent a week setting this thing up and using it," Ihnatko writes, "and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face." Boing Boing also has Cory Doctorow claiming This Film is Not Yet Rated is the best documentary he has seen all year: "the kind of thing that inspired outrage and sympathy".

Megan Nicol Reed of the Sunday Star-Times profiles Maori TV, "the little channel that could", and Mark Broatch takes a highbrow look at the "serious magazines". He has his problems with Deborah Coddington's cover story about Asian immigration in this month's North & South, which he describes as a "tasteless slab of anecdotal evidence". And the SST's lucky London correspondent Steve Braunias has this brilliant if slightly terrifying account of a press conference with author Stephen King, talking about his latest book Lisey's Story and describing himself as "the literary equivalent of the Grateful Dead". Finally from our biggest Sunday, Chris Schulz scrutinises the gossip magazines as they unveil Kirstie Alley's new bikini body -

But seriously, did the writer Ian McEwan really copy the work of another author for his Booker-nominated novel, Atonement? A British Sunday newspaper claims he did, but McEwan refutes that and explains how he merely drew on research and reminiscences €” while generously acknowledging his debt to another writer.

As Leaf Salon says, it's great to see a writer in the 2006 New Generation Awards: Auckland blogger Tze Ming Mok, whose poetry, fiction, reviews, features and opinions have graced the pages of Landfall, Sport, the Listener and the Sunday Star Times. Her short story Daily Special appears in The Best New Zealand Fiction Volume 2 and her poem An Arabic Poetry Lesson in Jakarta was selected as one of the Best New Zealand poems in 2004. In 2007 Tze Ming takes up Creative New Zealand's Red Gate residency in Beijing.

More good news for the 'Baby Boomers' among us, who, it seems are helping to keep the music industry afloat. The latest US research shows consumers over 45 years old now account for the largest share of music buyers.

Another survey, this one commissioned by the BBC, suggests the online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time and that video sharing site YouTube is now taking online viewing to the masses. And the BBC's veteran DJ Alan 'Fluff' Freeman (an Australian from Melbourne, born in 1927), and one of the models for Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's hilarious Smashey and Nicey characters, has died in a London nursing home, aged 79. His "Not 'arf" catchphrase made him a household name in Britain.

Forty years ago Truman Capote threw a party that was meant to announce his arrival in society. Instead, writes Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star, he unwittingly made it clear that the world he wanted to be part of was in its death throes.

And finally, there's some great reading in Tim Liardet's latest Poetry Workshop at the Guardian website.

Happy surfing!