Bookmarking Soulmate

To infinity, and beyond! My epic quest to find more useful information for my blog continues.  And it has led me to search for my soulmate, my blogging/tagging soulmate that is.  As I was wading through the vastness of internet tags on diigo and del.icio.us, I was trying to develop of a list of tags I was looking for…”ethics” and “food” being obvious ones, maybe “sustainable farming” or “vegetarianism” or even “politics.”  The list kept getting longer, and just as I was starting to lose hope, I found her…

Heather Chi tags things that I like.  She tags sites related to politics and food, the epidemic of poverty, food inflation, and more.  Most profiles on del.icio.us and diigo who have bookmarked sites using tags like “food” and “ethics” have a variety of “vegetarianism” sites bookmarked.  Almost exclusively vegetarianism sites.  Though I’m all for that, I want more variety, Vegetarianism is great, but if you can’t back it up with tags like “ethics,” “politics,” and perhaps “sustainability,” you don’t even have the basis for an argument. 

And Heather’s tags show exactly that: her top ten (according to del.icio.us) are (drum roll please…”

“Food” (with 581 tags)

“Environment” (with 550 tags)

“Agriculture” (with 285 tags)

“Health” (with 205 tags)

“Politics” (with 161 tags)

“USA” (with 145 tags)

“Economics” (with 137 tags)

“Community Development” (with 130 tags)

“Art” (with 125 tags)

“Video” (with 118 tags)

And with a whopping 1504 pages bookmarked and easy-to-understand tags, Heather has helped me find new-and-improved sites to research and explore!  Two of such pages are TreeHugger and Grist, which both discuss the play between food, ethics, and politics. 

TreeHugger bills itself as a “discovery company” – with posts about do-it-yourself science, research articles, news about science, politics, and the environment, and food!

An article that I am especially attracted to is “Looking at the Beef in the Vegetarian Argument,” which clearly outlines six key points of vegetarianism and why, including links to outside research sources.  AND urges people to have a conversation about it in the comments.  I <3 conversation starters!

Grist is all about environmental news and commentary.  It has wit, good research, and hilarity.  The articles are serious, to the point, and well-researched, yet the information is presented in funny and easy-to-understand language.  Talk about a difficult, dynamic duo!  One of the articles that Heather tagged is about Michael Pollan and the Daily Show.  For those who don’t already know…anything on or about Pollan is usually amazing.  I wont tell you what it’s about (cause you should go read it yourself!) but I will give you a hint…FOOD!

Happy reading and eating!