Editors note: Continuing our discussion on leading social
tasting note sites, discussing why they important tools in the
Wine bloggers arsenal, I thought it would be good to ask each one to provide a short recap of why they think their tool is good for wine bloggers. Next up is Phillip James from the site
Snooth.com. Enjoy
Snooth Blogger Tools
Back in June, we rolled out a series of tools that allow wine bloggers to easily drop contextual links into their posts – and make money in the process.
Our rationale was simple: there’s no simple, standardized way to reference wines online. Also, we believe there ...
Although wine blogging is not a new endeavor, it is one that is lacking in thorough, meticulous research. Despite the fact that several wine bloggers, including ourselves, have attempted to gather information on the wine blogging community, these surveys cannot be chalked up to thorough and objective scientific research. The surveys were our best attempt to have a rudimentary understanding of both who we are as wine bloggers and the people who read them.
Tracy Rickman, a Consumer Research doctoral candidate at Auburn University is dedicating her dissertation to wine blogs as an information source. Today she comes to us with a very simple request, please fill out her survey on wine blogs to help her further her research. Her intentions are purely ...
1. Why do you feel wine blogging is not a fad? or is it?
Wine has always encouraged people to discuss, write, and share stories of their wine experiences with others. Blogging allows people to easily do this on a large scale with with virtually no overhead. People aren't going to stop communicating about wine. Will the medium evolve, change, and shift? Sure. But just as the web has matured, wine blogging will do the same thing.
2. What is one thing wine blogs get right?
Partnership and cooperation. There isn't internal competition between wine blogs for market share, ad revenue, or even readers. Bloggers often link to other blogs in their posts, communicate through 
We asked some winebloggers last week to answer some questions about wine blogging. Our first answer is here, and we hope to hear from more of you very soon. If you want to participate, just answer the questions listed in
Wineblogger.info was created by Catavino.net as a way to collate and track the many diverse and varied wine blogs. This project is open to offers of collaboration, suggestions as to how to improve and feedback of all sorts. As always, you can 
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