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I’m Having Something of a Sally Field Moment, Here
I submitted a thing to Palate Press, and today they published it. This makes me feel a little like a real wine writer, but just a little. I think they had a piece that didn’t come in, and mine was the...
View ArticleWine Blogging Wednesday #62
I participate for the first time. Lots of good stuff. The list is here, my thing is here. Technorati Tags: blogging, wine
View ArticleThe Guy Who Really Invented the Internet
Wine Enthusiast names Gary Vaynerchuk “Innovator of the Year.” On the off chance that you haven’t seen Vaynerchuk’s innovation, here’s a sample: Other Wine Enthusiast award winners here. Technorati...
View ArticleA Question About Wine Blogging
I started Louisville Juice six months ago after doing a political/cultural blog for about five years. The thing that strikes me most about the difference is that political blogs interact with each...
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Isolated Winebogs 2: We Crunch the Numbers So You Don’t Have To
Earlier today I posted a thing here and in several online forums asking why winebloggers don’t link to each other the way political bloggers do. These postings generated a number of reactions, and...
View ArticleWe Take Baby Steps
I went back to my old political blog to do a little housekeeping and discovered that six months after my last post there it’s still getting six times as much traffic as this blog. Technorati Tags:...
View ArticleThis Conversation’s Been Going On for a While. Isn’t It About Time Someone...
The Good Grape opines at length on my Isolated Blogger meme (here and here) and inspires smart comments, plus one from me. You know: just to break things up. Technorati Tags: blogging, wine
View ArticleBecause Some of Us Live In Places Like Kentucky
One of the really joyful things about being a wine drinker in flyover country is that wine writers live in coastal cities where access to esoteric wines is easy and inexpensive. That gives us the...
View ArticleThe Discussion of Wine Blogging Goes Viral
It started here, continued with hard data here, and became a long and highly informative comment thread at Good Grape. The ball is now picked up by World of Cush who believes that the nature of wine...
View ArticleWhy Wine Magazines Will Persist
Steve Heimoff, West Coast Editor for Wine Enthusiast, uses the occasion of the publication of Wine Enthusiast’s Best 100 Wines of 2009 to contemplate the predicted demise of print magazines in a web...
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