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What Is Wineblogger and How Can You Help?!

When Catavino asked me to add blogs to the wineblogger database, I thought, "Sure! This could be fun. I'm good at wine, foreign languages and basic database work, so this shouldn't be difficult." Nine months later, I realize that categorizing and imputing almost 900+ wine blogs is quite challenging, but there are ways we can all make this easier with a little teamwork! First, we need your help! There is zero money coming into this project, and we need all the extra support we can get! If you are fluent in a language listed on this site, become a Wineblogger Editor!! Job description: ensure that all blogs listed in that given language are active and relevant. Per month, this would take you less time than shampooing your dog or mowing the lawn. And in return, ...

Zemanta Adds Wine Bloggers from Wineblogger.info to Their English Directory

Image representing Zemanta as depicted in Crun... Exciting news for wine bloggers!!! What is Zemanta? Zemanta is a plug-in that helps make your blog writing more efficient and effective by suggesting the most relevant images, smart links, keywords and text to your new blog posts. We've used this tool for over a year now, and have found it to be a life saver. Where it fell short of our expectations previously, was that it tended to offer non-wine related suggestions, leaving wine bloggers like us in the dark. Fortunately, this has changed! Zemanta Now References English Wine Bloggers Zemanta is now referencing English written wine blogs from Wineblogger.info in their directory. This means, that when I write a blog post on the increase of Chardonnay in ...

Wine Blogger Questions – What do you think about wine blogging, and what should others know?

Assorted wine corks Hello Everyone Wineblogger.info is beginning to come together and with some additional effort we are beginning to layout new tools and features to make it a better resource for people who want to learn about wine blogs and wine blogging. We've come to realize that our primary audience will most likely not be fellow wine bloggers, but rather people who want to learn about the world of wine blogs, what they mean, and how to interact with them. Therefore we have a few questions for you. On our blog we'll be publishing short profiles with your logo/image along with answers to the following questions. Why do you feel wine blogging is not a fad? or is it? What is one thing wine blogs get right? What is one thing that wine blogs get wrong or ...

Standard Blogging Software Works – Don’t eff it up!

Lately I've seen a lot of new sites that employ blogging software that was either created by themselves/their company and/or instances where a standard piece of software was modified past the point of functioning. Here's a FREE piece of advice and something that will save you tons of money and guarantee that your blog will function. USE FREE SOFTWARE! If your paying for the software and not for the design your wasting your money. Just so you know a blog must have the following to be a blog and to be a blog that works: RSS enabled - if I can't subscribe to your site with my google reader, you fail, and I dont' read your site. Since RSS is retardly simple to implement this should not ...

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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 contact us with this form, and if you are a wine blogger, you can grab a wine blogger badge here.

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