Interesting read in this month’s Wired. It’s about how that despite all the hype around Second Life, well… no one is showing up. While the number of avatars surpassed 7 million in June, many of those avatars belonged to the same users – and the number of distinct visitors was closer to 4 million. Oh, and, of those, only 1 million had logged on in the previous month and only about 300k signed on in the last week. In other words, about 85% of all avatars have been abandoned. So what’s wrong?
Yesterday we had a very interesting discussion with the folks here at FreedomLab about the notion of community and how it relates to social networks and hyperlocal news reporting…which is seen as a Holy Grail of sorts inside the world of journalism. There’s been several attempts to create such a place online, but there hasn’t been a successful model created just yet. So what went wrong?
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
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Isbn-13: 9781594201455
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food...
