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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, ...

Tool For Wine Bloggers: An Interview with Chris Golda, Co-Founder of Backtype

Recently, we were asked to provide more information on a blogging tool called Backtype. Backtype is a conversational search engine that indexes and connects conversations from blogs, social networks and other social media, whereby allowing us to find, follow and share comments. In that same article, we also received a very considerate invitation from the co-founder of Backtype, Chris Golda, to provide a detailed explanation of this incredible powerful tool. Clearly, we couldn't say no to such a juicy offer. What initiated the creation of Backtype? Initially, we wanted to create BackType so we could see what blogs people were reading and commenting on. Now we have much greater ambition for BackType, and we're working on many new products and services. How can a wine blogger effectively use Backtype? We offer a collection of widgets and plugins related to comments that bloggers may be ...

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 ...

Extreme Wineblogger Makeover

logo_winebloggercilIt's finally done! Well, not completely, as this is a never-ending project, but at least we've created a solid foundation. Over the past month, we have given Wineblogger an extreme makeover, providing it with a cleaner design, a better layout and more functionality. With 500+/- links to wine blogs and growing, lumped together as one, there was no way to differentiate blogs by either type or language. Now you can! All blogs submitted to wineblogger.info have been placed into a category based on language, and in some cases, type. However, as this project is by the wine blogger and for the wine blogger, we need your help! We've collated wine blogs from Vinography, Wineblogger, Alawine and Google searches. That said we put into effect a rule that they had to have been updated in 2008. In 2009 we'll begin to remove even more ...

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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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