The research agenda we really need
Colin Tudge at the Campaign for Real Farming points up just a few of the ways in which the current approach to research into food and food production lets us all down.
Blogging In 2018: A Trend On The Wane?
As usual, the answer to a simple question in a headline is "No!"
"Adactio: Journal—Food and music"
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Piqd -- podcast discovery
This is a really interesting development, not unlike that thing I tried to do, single handed, a while back. My playlist is way too full right now, but I might try it just to see what's going on.
"Going Paper-Free for $220 / Steve Losh"
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"Brexit is Suez 2.0 | Memex 1.1"
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New book traces humankind's 14-billion-year journey
I really want to like this but I fear ("Inspired by genetic pioneer Sydney Brenner") that it will not contain enough of Brenner's genius.
"Are podcasts a wasteland? (with a post script about Kurt Wagner) | CultureBy – Grant McCracken"
Just as desktop publishing didn't turn everyone into even a half-decent designer, so the democratisation of "radio" doesn't turn everyone into even a half-decent producer.
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How to download all of your Flickr photos (and metadata)
tl;dr: It couldn't be simpler. What to do with all that, however, is the bigger question.
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral | Hapgood
So good.
Your machine is a library not a publication device. You have copies of documents is there that you control directly, that you can annotate, change, add links to, summarize, and this is because the memex is a tool to think with, not a tool to publish with.
Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.
Three things about Readers during IndieWebCamp Nürnberg
I watched some of this magic happening, and it was ... Magical. There are so many good things happening in ReaderLand these days.
"Our Hidden Wound | The Contrary Farmer"
On World Food Day, so delighted to see this piece from Gene Logsden pop up in my feed.
https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/our-hidden-wound-2/
Sometimes, it’s the data you’re missing that’s the key to understanding something
Illuminating anecdote from WW2.
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