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Make it so!
You have spoken, and by a narrow margin, you wanted a few more full items on the home page. So be it, five instead of three. We’ll let that settle down before we reassess. Unless there’s something you really, really would like us to change.
Housekeeping news
A couple of things. Firstly, a reader asked whether we could revert to a previous set-up on our home page, so that all posts were visible in their entirety, rather than having three in full and the rest as a couple of columns of excerpts. “I dislike having to scan sideways and click through to read fairly recent posts,” was the reason.
Well, I don’t dislike that at all. Nor does Luigi. But we live to serve you, our readers. So we’ll do the democracy thing again. There’s a poll on the right; pop on over and vote.
I’ve also implemented threaded comments. 1 “Wha,” you ask. It’s just a way of making it easier to respond to a specific comment without all that @Name hipster grooviness. Just click on the Reply button, and WordPress will do the rest. If there’s an outcry, I’ll de-implement it. But I don’t think there will be.
Yesterday’s fine nibbles not to be missed
Just wanted to point out that yesterday’s crop of nibbles was really very rich. I have a feeling that they sometimes get overlooked, with their small typeface, there on the right of the page. Do have a look. There’s more on the saga of that organic report, and much more.
Mapping our blogging
On slow news days my mind turns to things meta. So here’s a map of our agrobiodiversity blogging. You can get a better, interactive one by clicking “Map” up on the menu bar at the top of the page.
Considering we haven’t been geo-referencing from the beginning, I think that’s not too bad a geographic coverage of the world’s agriculture. A few gaps, though. We’ll see what we can do about that.