Blogging on Wine Blogs being Blogged

Posted by Tom Wark on May 22, 2006

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Another wine blog aggregator has appeared: VinoBlogosphere.

Like other aggregation sites, VinoBlogosphere has chosen a selection of the nearly 300 wine blogs and posts their most recent entries. This new site is presenting posts from only 15 different wine blogs.

So far I’ve not come across a wine blog aggregation site that does of a better job of updating me on whats been said and whats being discussed in the wine blog world than my own Bloglines RSS Reader. The difference of course is I can tell Bloglines exactly which sites I want it to track, rather than relying on an aggregation site making a one time determination of which blogs are worth reading, arranging for their updating on the site, then moving on and hoping they make some money off their Google Ads.

The nice thing about VinoBlogosphere is that it doesn’t present the entire post from the blogs it program’s its site to monitor. Rather, only the headline and the first 40 or 50 words are presented, followed by a link to blog for the rest of the reading.

I’m thinking there is an opportunity for someone to put together are truly robust wine blog/wine news aggregation site that doesn’t limit the number of sources it chooses from and which offers it’s own daily commentary on the best blog posts and most significant articles of news on the web. So far, it really hasn’t emerged.

VinoBlogoSphere is probably worth a look, however.

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