Comments on: The Rise of the Internet and the Death of Gardening https://gardern.co.za/2009/09/rise-of-internet-and-death-of-gardening/ Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:54:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2009/09/rise-of-internet-and-death-of-gardening/#comment-4716 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:47:54 +0000 #comment-4716 Influence can be defined as the power exerted over the minds and behavior of others. A power that can affect, persuade and cause changes to someone or something. In order to influence people, you first need to discover what is already influencing them. What makes them tick? What do they care about? We need some leverage to work with when we’re trying to change how people think and behave.

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]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2009/09/rise-of-internet-and-death-of-gardening/#comment-4715 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:42:18 +0000 #comment-4715 Good post

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]]> By: Scout Horticultural Consulting https://gardern.co.za/2009/09/rise-of-internet-and-death-of-gardening/#comment-4714 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:01:24 +0000 #comment-4714 So true…well said!

]]> By: york_rose https://gardern.co.za/2009/09/rise-of-internet-and-death-of-gardening/#comment-4713 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:28:35 +0000 #comment-4713 Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books.

]]> By: Mike Huben https://gardern.co.za/2009/09/rise-of-internet-and-death-of-gardening/#comment-4712 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:25:44 +0000 #comment-4712 Excellent points.

But rather than bemoan the transit of our cherished books, we need to appreciate the vast resources that are transitioning to the web. Yes, you could buy a book about Salvias that had pictures of most of the species and many important cultivars. But far more are pictured on the web. Curation of that data, assembling it so that people can use it and appreciate it, bringing ease of use to the information: that's what we need.

I have hundreds of pounds (if not thousands) of books in my home. Soon, all I'll need is a little Kindle-like tablet. Will it be as glorious as a coffee table book? Yes, on my 24 inch computer screen, or on a larger HD television screen. I won't need my reading glasses for the TV, and if I had other vision problems, the electronics can make it more easily readable or even read it aloud for me. If I want to refer to the books in the field, I won't need bulky handbooks: tablets will do. I will be able to annotate, bookmark, take notes, and link without defacing or laborious writing.

I'm going to try to persuade some daylily society dinosaurs of your observations: maybe they'll prove to be the adaptable, surviving, feathered dinosaurs we call birds.

]]> By: Brian David Morley https://gardern.co.za/2009/09/rise-of-internet-and-death-of-gardening/#comment-4711 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:20:31 +0000 #comment-4711 Wow Matt, I'm sad to say I agree with you 100%, but maybe the outcome will have effects that we aren't aware of right now…and opportunities for engaging people, and specifically young people that we can't fathom…there is nothing I would rather have than a fabulous gardening book…but as you said, our local book sellers just made the gardening section SMALLER, last week. I was so disappointed,and what was left, was drivel…almost no monographs, or anything I wanted to take home-guess I'll go to the used book store and find a treasure that will be a novelty in our life time,it makes me want to hoard! It's a kind of dark ages…there was once a thing called a book, long long ago..you held it in your hand, and it opened. Brian Morley

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