Nice post, Mat – love the vegetables analogy. You’re lucky that you found a farm stand doing it cheaper, though. If you go to Moss Street Market, you pay $6 for a small bag of “designer greens,” too steep a price by half. Those are ideology salads, if you ask me: they’re for people who have committed to paying that much of a premium, just like some people (probably not enough to keep the Times going) are committed to paying a firewall premium for the news. The rest of us, though, will graze through our networks – and we’ll get a better diet out of it, too!

Thanks for that post. I am spending a lot of spare time reading Berkman Centre articles and research but had not come across Miriam Meckel’s post yet. Very interesting.