One of the great developments I'm seeing is the emergence of specialized weblogs that focus hard on a specific issue, and here's an example: the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. There's good science there on a topic of considerable importance. Let a thousand flowers bloom, I say.
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Recall the consequence of the hundred flowers blooming movement in China. You don't have it in for these agricultural biodiversity folks, do you? Though as a piratical ploy, this may have merit. Can you scream "Prepare to be boarded!" at a blog?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
Who knew? About the 100 flowers thing, I mean. I'll be careful how I use it in future. And thanks for the hat tip.