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Popular Wine Blogs = Credible Wine Blogs

Credibility is a strange term to me. When I sit with the word, the first feeling that comes to mind is trust. Am I trustworthy? Can people trust what I say as true and accurate? Can they come to me knowing that I will continually do my best to give them advice and information that is valid based on my experience or on the experience of others? Feels heavy, as if I have a thousand eyes looking at me saying "are you a good and honest human being"? I hope I am. I try to be. But I can't guarantee that I am successful everyday. I bring the term credibility to the floor today because many people, both in print and in the internet, have debated the credibility of a blogger. In short are bloggers trustworthy and honest? Are we ethical? Allow ...

Hardy Wallace of Dirty South Wine on Wine Blogging

dirty-ii 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 Twitter, on message boards, and are constantly cooperating and interacting.  Can you imagine CNN and Fox News ...

Over 700 Active Blogs from Around the World!

Today we announce that we are officially over 700 strong here at Wineblogger.info! Late last week, we reached the 700 mark with the submission of Chevsky.com a personal wine blog! From his blogger profile: Gary Chevsky is software industry executive who loves to explore wine, pair it with good food, and philosophize about the meaning of it all. We think this is an appropriate blog to celebrate number 700 with! The wine blog world started with people like Gary who just wanted to record their experience with wine, and today it has grown to become so much more! Blogs listed on Wineblogger.info are active as of 2 months ago. Blogs must show a consistent level of activity or they may not remian on the site. While we think most blogs have remained active, we're confident that we have a few in here that don't fit the ...

One Wine Dude Answers our Questions

onewinedudeWe 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 this post and we'll get your response up on the site right away! Cheers, Ryan Why do you feel wine blogging is not a fad? or is it? It's not a fad. Nothing with real passion behind it is a fad.  The medium may evolve and change, but at it's heart wine blogging is wine media by & for the masses. Once something like that has been liberated, it cannot again become contained. What is one thing wine blogs get right? Passion. What is one thing that wine blogs get wrong or need to improve? It needs to be more than what you drank last night. Have a ...

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 ...

12seconds: A DUMB Idea That Has Potential

Mobile/E-Mail Post on 12seconds.tv Web 2.0 is full of DUMB ideas! Stupid start-ups and ridiculous culminations of dumb ideas with even dumber ones! Mash-ups typically lead to tools that are either brilliant or ridiculous - a constant stream of new ways to distract me from doing my job and staying on task. At this point, many of you are scratching your heads wondering what I am talking about, as your not self-declared online "geeks". Hence, the term Mashups may mean very little to you, and honestly, let it stay that way. What's more important for non-tech-geeks to understand is that some of the strange tools that help make the web what it is today, may at first seem useless, but with time, actually gain merit....

Winery Export Managers – Blogger or Not you NEED to be on Dopplr.com

Dopplr is a tool that all export managers, and winery bloggers should not be without. From there site: Dopplr is an online service for frequent travelers. It lets you share your future travel plans with a group of trusted fellow travelers that you have chosen. It also reminds you of friends and colleagues who live in the cities you're planning to visit. You can use the service with your personal computer and mobile phone. Basically you can keep people/customers up to date on where you are and what you are doing. If you then go and build a big enough network you can use this to set up meetings and arrange dinners so that you don't have to eat alone on the road. Best part is you can also embed all this information on your blog or website like this:...

Free Advice – Write for your Audience, not for your Peers

The wine blogg-o-sphere seems sick right now, contaminated with a nasty, dangerous virus and full of evil overtones. There is a self-absorption infection that is destroying that which makes us unique, and quite honestly, it's making me sick. However, I'm curious if it will function like a blog-based form of natural selection, weeding out the weak in favor of the strong. This infection seems to have caused perfectly good wine bloggers to stop talking about wine, and instead, to focus on their own insecurities precieved or real. Lately, we're losing wine bloggers right and left in favor of wine blog critics or MSM (main stream media) bashers. It needs to stop. This BS in the wine blogging world is destroying that which we're fighting for, to be ...

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