Originally published on August 27, 2008.
Seems like it’s been a very busy week in Blogland, with several stories capturing the keyboards of bloggers across the internet. Rather than go into great detail myself, I’ll just do the hyperlink thing and take advantage of all the virtual ink that’s already been laid.
- The Rodney Strong Affair: Rodney Strong gives samples of their new, high end wine to bloggers to review. Bloggers review it. The chattering classes chatter away about journalistic ethics, revolution, and the eventual mainstreaming of the blogging frontier. Tom Wark’s Fermentation has links, thoughts, and a rowdy comments page.
- Little Trouble in Big Wine Spectator Land: That mighty marketing marvel, the Wine Spectator, gives out these silly restaurant awards. Actually, it doesn’t give them out, you have to pay $250 and send in some info. Recently, they gave one to a restaurant that doesn’t exist and the blogs and wine boards go wild! Bigger Than Your Head gives one of the more balanced summaries I’ve seen. While both of these stories have the blog world in a tizzy, I wonder if anyone in the ‘real world’ cares…..