Wine Bloggers – One shoe does “not” fit all
A bit of crowd sourcing for today. I have a question. With all this talk of ethics, and what a wine bloggers should be, I’ve wanted to begin the process of sorting out who wine bloggers really are. I say this because it’s naive and silly to assume that all wine bloggers are created equal and therefore, should be held to the same standards. Should a Winery Blogger be just as objective as a Wine blog that rates wines? No, I’m pretty sure we can agree on that. What about a blog like Catavino.net where we do not rate wines? We do talk about wines we like, and we do try to disclose possible conflicts of interest, but we are not giving out points to wines in an effort to tell you which wines are good or bad. What about a wine lover blog who uses it to track their wine education? Or an importers journal, I know I don’t want them to be objective, because I want to them to tell me why they love the wines they import! That is why I read them!
To the point of crowd sourcing. What categories should there be and how should we define them? Use the comments below and this list as a starting point (taken from our categories for English wine blogs)
- Business – Marketing
- Business – Social Wine Sites
- Business – Wine News
- Food and Wine
- Music and Wine
- Art and Wine
- General Wine Blog
- Podcasts/Videocasts
- Regionally focused
- Wine Education
- Wine Rating Blogs
- Winery Blogs
What would you change/combine/shift? What standards or special considerations does each type of wine blog need to think about?
Cheers,
Ryan
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May 8th, 2009 at 10:19 am
How about making it simple:
* Bloggers
* Blobbers
May 12th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
In terms of sorting blogs on sites like wineblogger.info, I think this is a great idea. Not sure it would gain general consensus from the blogosphere. I think I'd like a further clarification of the categories and what you mean by “Business – Marketing,” etc.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Ha!!! Good one…
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:36 am
I agree comopletely. If have a close look, at least in the German Wine Blogging Scene (which I am a bit more familiar with) there are tons of different blogs and the intensity of the wine topic varies greatly. Not everybody continously writes about wine that calls him/herself a wine blogger.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:23 am
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