It is surprising to me when a writer creating some of the more compelling content in wine’s tiny corner of the blogosphere can not feel the evidence of quality content and professional writers in a changing media landscape. In this latest case the writer shares a personal conclusion that future references to “bloggers” will be […]
Context for Wine Blogs and Wine Marketers
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 […]
Wine Blog Confessions
As the 2012 wine blogging season kicked off, three notable wine bloggers weighed in with wine blogosphere predictions, analysis, and reflections. In the last month, Steve Heimoff, Tom Wark, and Alder Yarrow posted their opinions on the evolution of the wine blogosphere, sustainable wine content creation, and/or why they blog. I regularly follow these guys because they […]
Stop H.R. 5034 and a New Dark Age for Wine Consumers and Retailers
The very recent introduction of H.R. 5034 into the House of Representatives is no less a bad dream for wine drinkers and retailers than a resurrection of the Berlin Wall would be for East Germans or a rekindling of Mao’s Cultural Revolution might represent for China’s citizens. The bill essentially awards blanket validity to State laws, without […]