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Go forth and aggregate

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:21:16 -0400

One of the key business technology trends of 2008, according to The McKinsey Quarterly is making businesses from capturing information.

As we know from shopping sites and business-to-business product directories on the net, there's money to be made from accumulated pools of data.

But something we're failing to do in parall...

Slaves to the cult of de-clutter

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:46:34 -0400

For many years, the model for successful urban life has been the noise, disorderliness and messy mix of people and traffic of SoHo, New York.

Alongside, creative expression has denied linearity and minimalism: be it ironic, awkward Britart, whimsy, casual Goldfrapp, feature-length social documentary film-making, the

Last year, Gastronomica, the journal of food and culture, ran a special edition on the politics of food.

The magazine carried a review of the latest book<...

Are foodies killing us?

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:08:51 -0500

This is a picture of some radishes I saw at a market in New Delhi, India last year.

They look delicious, weird - like something out of a David Lynch movie - and their abundance would warm the hearts and pans of all foodies.

But is fawning appr...