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By: Rebecca Sparks

Rebecca Sparks — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:41:59 +0000

I think it is an interesting idea; but you don’t really need to have anybody on the other side of that text. Programs such as facebook, livejournal, twitter etc. have the ability to turn a text into an entry: all you need is a private journal where the entries are locked. If you have a really snazzy programmer it could recognize txt shorthand for food and measurement and calculate the calories for you. You could have the next big social networking dieting craze; or it could already be around and I don’t know it yet.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:55:32 +0000

You forgot governmental subsidization of different food products. JR Atwood just posted a good entry about this:
http://playthink.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/federal-subsidies-for-food-production/

The body follows the head…in cultural/organizational terms, the Federal government is often the “head” of the social-body. It leads via policy (such as subsidy, land-usage, etc.), and also through example (accruing massive amounts of debt, etc.)…

Much of media takes its cue from the Federal government. “Truth in advertising” relies on governmental moderation. The nullification of the Radio Fairness Doctrine in 1987 had similar repercussions.

I’m happy that MD’s are not as “isolationist” in their thinking as they may have been in the past, but the issue needs to be sussed out in its full depths.