Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants.[1][2] Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions, and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish.[3] Mariculture refers to aquaculture practiced in marine environments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture (more)

typically about Grass Fed Beef (more)

George Monbiot had gone vegan because of meat being un-SustainAble, but has now changed his mind because of Simon Fairlie's book Meat: A Benign Extravagance ISBN:1856230554. There's no doubt that the livestock system has gone horribly wrong. Fairlie describes the feedlot beef industry (in which animals are kept in pens) in the US as "one of the biggest ecological cock-ups in modern history"... But these idiocies, Fairlie shows, are not arguments against all meat eating, but arguments against the current farming model... If pigs are fed on residues and waste, and cattle on straw, stovers and grass (Grass-Fed) from fallows and rangelands – food for which humans don't compete – meat becomes a very efficient means of food production. (more)

Stowe Boyd thinks we should aim for Zero Impact Food (Sustainable). People have to realize it's time to stop eating unsustainable protein, in general. Just about the only sustainable fish is Aquaculture of tilapia... Instead of thinking about food in terms of the "OrganIc" or even "local/slow" (Local Food/Slow Food) models, we should switch to a model of sustainability, where we work toward zero impact food. I read a lot a folks arguing that we should stop eating terrestrial meats, based on an argument of their unsustainability. However, it tursn out that Grass-Fed beef - where the animals are herded to fresh pastures frequently - may be the single most efficient and sustainable way to turn sunlight into protein. We need to segment foods differently: not by point of origin, food group, or organicness, but by the impact they have.

group of people who discuss a book (more)

SimpleNote NoteBook app for Android. (more)

process of reading something (web, EBook) alongside other people, either physically or virtually (Social Software) (more)

Seeking Live Music (Live Performance) near Barrington Il. (more)

Jon Noring explains EPub and its relation to XHTML. (see also Node Web) (more)

BlackBoard bought MoodleRooms and Net Spot, 2 Moodle service/hosting/consulting companies. (more)

Lunch provided by/at school, esp Public School (more)

HP PhotoSmart-7760v Ink Jet printer I bought in Dec'2005 (it was manufactured Aug'2004). Since I have no real workspace at home, I stick the printer back in the box/closet when I'm not using it. I don't think it likes sitting sideways like that. (more)

I bought an HP PhotoSmart 7760v Ink Jet printer in Dec'2005 (it was manufactured Aug'2004). Since I have no real workspace at home, I stick the printer back in the box/closet when I'm not using it. I don't think it likes sitting sideways like that. (more)

Mike Shatzkin predicts the future of (Trade) Book Publishing: (more)

Dave Winer appreciates Marc Canter's early recognition that Social Networking software should be a commodity... Every virtual place should define a social network. It should be as easy to start a social network as it is to install an email server, or a Web Server... Examples of virtual places that will be the start of social networks: NYU, Starbucks, BestBuy, my apartment building, Dunkin Donuts, Logan Airport, Verizon, Netflix, The Godfather, Five Easy Pieces, Dirty Harry, Casablanca, Fifth Avenue, Vail... In a university, the roles you can play are: student, teacher, administrator, security guard, teaching assistant... Every place that defines a clear set of roles is a place that can host a social network that means something to some people. Hmm, Network or Virtual Community? (Market Network Community Platform Ecosystem, Open Social Networking Model).

Early OutLining package by Dave Winer. Became Symantec MORE. (more)

Gina Trapani app that drove ExpertLabs for awhile. 2009-11-18-AnilExpertLabs (more)

Jeff Jarvis has organized a "New Business Model-s for News Summit" (Journalism) today. Fred Wilson is there. Various people are tweeting. (more)

Anil Dash is now director of ExpertLabs. ExpertLabs is a new independent initiative to help policy makers in our government take advantage of the expertise of their fellow citizens. EGov? Well, not really, because it's not a government group. With support from a $500,000 grant from the Mac Arthur Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and their Policy Innovation Network has launched Expert Labs as a nonpartisan, independent project that aims to improve the policy-making process by engaging experts and technologists. (more)

Learning Community, Learning CoOp (more)