Yesterday Tom Wark raised a few relevancy questions about wine blog advertising and audience sizes when he published Pajamas and the Status of Wine Bloggers at his own, very fine, Fermentation blog. He floated issues from three specific points of view; advertisers’, publicists’, and wine bloggers’ themselves. Because the conversations about non traditional media formats and communities (bloggers, social […]
Happy Birthday WineZag
Today, WineZag cheers for its first birthday and one full year of steady wine writing to celebrate 25 years of wine appreciation. The place that fine wine, human experience, and written perspective intersect has turned into a personally sacred way point along an unending path to deeper appreciation of wine as a lifestyle component and the […]
When Personal Views Trump Ethics
Adherence to journalism ethics taught to cub reporters since the earliest days of print media has become a tired and miscued distinction between good and bad wine writing. Like magicians coaxing their audiences to gaze in their eyes while nimble fingers craftily invert reality, professional writers and bloggers are distracted by an ethical divide as wine media and information sharing is being reshaped accross the social web. In between Anthony Dias […]