Slow News for Today - The World Institute of Slowness

[Garson O'Toole]

A New York Times article from July 1 contained the term "slow money":

Small Farmers Creating a New Business Model as Agriculture Goes Local
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/us/small-scale-farmers-creating-a-new-profit-model.html

Wikipedia has an entry for "slow money" with a creation date of
January 8, 2010.‎ The entry links to the entry for "slow movement"
which surprisingly does not mention the alimentary canal. It does
mention "The World Institute of Slowness". The slow adjective/prefix
is slowly conquering the progressive meme-space:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement

Section titles: Slow Food, Slow Gardening, Slow Money, Cittaslow, Slow
Parenting, Slow Travel, Slow Art, Slow Media, Slow Fashion, Slow
Software Development, Slow Science, Slow Goods

Back in 2002 a ADS list member pointed to: SLOW FOOD--The opposite of
"fast food." The sometimes accurate Wikipedia traces "slow food" back
to 1986.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ADS-L;xBcyfQ;200202262347470500D

Why mention this? No doubt this is old news to many list members. I am
writing about it now to properly embody the term "slow news".

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