I just searched Google for the term “wine blog.”
The search revealed that there are now 40,000,000 entries that qualify under “wine blog.” Some of them, of course, are duplicates, but still… this number is astounding.
It’s no accident that wine-blog.org is on that first page. When it came time for me to pick a title, I’m [...]

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Jo Diaz on March 9th, 2009

American Squirrel Awards… Just as I was contemplating that we need another wine blog awards system, that would be something equivalent to a “Festivus” (Frank Costanza, George’s father on Seinfeld who created a “Festivus,” a Festival for the Rest of Us), along came the American Squirrel Awards.
The reason this was spinning through my head is [...]

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Jo Diaz on January 30th, 2009

Open Wine Consortium is one of the social networks where I find myself visiting with frequency. One can’t be left behind, once one knows there’s a movement afoot. Open Wine Consortium was the support system behind the Wine Bloggers Conference, and I find myself drawn in, a bit like a moth to a flame.
As I [...]

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