This November wine bloggers from around North America and beyond will come together for the 10th annual event of the Wine Bloggers Conference. Some may refer to this as the 10th anniversary, but they would be wrong due to a logic problem often referred to as “the fencepost error.” It is the 10th occurrence, but […]
Today I am at the 2011 North American Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. And you may be asking yourself, “Why the hell is there a wine bloggers conference in Virginia?” Well, there is actually some very tasty wine made here… it doesn’t all come from California. I haven’t had a chance to taste much […]
Each year, there’s an event called the Wine Blog Awards in which, as the name implies, wine blogs are given awards. Now that I think of it, I should nominate the Wine Blog Awards for Most Clearly Named Award Show. But where would I do that? Maybe I need to invent a new award show. […]
The second US Wine Blogger’s Conference began earlier today and I’m glad to in attendance once again. It’s a gathering of hundreds of wine bloggers like me, along with just many participants from within the wine industry. We’ve already done our opening events (i.e. registration, meet the sponsors, lunch, welcome, etc.) and it’s time for […]
If you’re a wine blog reader (and you wouldn’t be reading this if you were not one) then your opinion matters for a study about wine blogs being conducted right now. Tracy Rickman, a doctoral candidate studying consumer research at Auburn University, is studying the viability of wine blogs as an information resource, and the […]
Creating a wine blog – or a blog of any topic for that matter – is a lonely venture at first. You often feel like you’re blogging into the ether, and for the most part you are. It takes a while for people to discover your blog. And it takes even longer for readers to […]