[Sca-cooks] Local Feast Disappointment

[Johnna Holloway]

There may be easy interaction via Facebook, but there's the problem of being able to effectively
search or find information easily. Try relocating a post or a link after a period of time. How easy is that? What is displayed or how it is ordered is often determined by device too and that
can be problematic. I know that what the iPad displays is different than the phone or the desktop; that can matter in terms of information.
And what about archives? Are the Facebook posts being gathered up and placed say in the Florilegium?

Johnnae

On Nov 7, 2013, at 10:57 PM, David Friedman wrote:

> I see it  the other way around. It used to be pretty hard, at least if you didn't have access to a good academic library, to find source material for period cooking. Now, not only is much of it in print, much of it is available for free online. It's true that much of what you find online isn't true--but that was at least equally true of oral tradition before the Internet, and of a fair amount of popular writing--consider Fabulous Feasts. The internet makes it easier, if you are interested, to find multiple versions, hunt up the original of the badly distorted recipe you found first, find discussions. One consequence of facebook is that people who are interested can interact more easily with the experienced period cooks than used to be the case. I post there. Urtatim posts. Galefridus posts. Other people too.
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> On 11/7/13 7:33 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:
>> I often wonder about how Facebook will impact the research of various SCA
>> activities. If everyone resorts to Facebook for their answers and these answers are brief or incomplete, what will happen
>> to the value placed on original research or have those days already passed? Does it matter how much of an educational organization we are if Facebook is good enough and the default research resource?