About Table Scraps

Table Scraps is a blog maintained by Bailey Norwood, one of the editors of Food & Resource Dialogues. It's purpose is to explore what is happening in the world of agriculture, food and resources; to discover topics that would make interesting FRD articles; to help readers understand different perspectives on controversial topicsincluding why intelligent people form different opinions; and to experiment with different ways of applying economics to contemporary topics.

The entries in Table Scraps are not peer-reviewed items of research, nor do they represent the views of anyone in particular (not even the blog's author!).

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Makings of a Great Blog

One of the most popular economic blogs is Marginal Revolution.  It's appeal to me is the eclectic nature of its posts. Rather than obsess about free-markets versus government it discusses and provides links to interesting items one might never come across in their daily perusing of the web.

As I was deliberating putting together this blog, I asked one of the blog's authors, Tyler Cowen, how he found the items in his Assorted Links posts. I assumed he used some fancy tool like Google Alerts, but I was wrong. His answer to how he discovers his links was, "Mostly from readers!"

So, I ask you, help me make FRD's blog great by doing my work for me!