Just who are you readers of FERMENTATION?-You are overwhelmingly male-Spread across the age spectrum-Make pretty good money-Are very well educated-Probably married-There’s a 50/50 chance you work in or around the wine industry-Are heavy wine drinkers-Are likely to spend on average more than $15 on a bottle of wine-Don’t really like your strawberry ice cream-Prefer imported autos-Are likely a dog, rather than a cat, person-Prefer substantive reading over gossip Not that surprising, but interesting. We received a total of 157 responses…
In response to my post yesterday about an Internet Site that was apparently lifting entire articles from wine blogs and posting them in their entirety on their own site, I received this e-mail:"Tom, I just saw your posting made here (http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2006/05/this_article_wa.html). Most importantly, I have removed the Fermentation articles from TheWinery. However, I did want to clarify the situation. We *DO* request permission from bloggers — by no means do we want to steal anyone’s content. That said, clearly some…
DON’T FORGET TO TAKE THE FERMENTATION READER SURVEY ============================================================ My weekly post at Wine Sediments, a group wine blog, is up and concerns the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers upcoming ZINPOSIUM. If you have more than a passing interest in the grape and the wine ZINPOSIUM an event taking place July 7-9. All the names and wines will be there. Click on the link above to read the Wine Sediments post and get the background on the event. ================================================================DON’T FORGET TO…
The Ongoing FERMENTATION READER SURVEY will end on Thursday. If you haven’t taken the opportunity to take the survey I’d be grateful if you did. YOU CAN CLICK HERE to take the survey. It’s a quick 16 question, mainly multiple choice survey that shouldn’t take more than a minute to complete. The results will be posted here and will also give myself and you a good idea of who is visiting this one and a half year old wine blog….
DON’T FORGET TO TAKE THE FERMENTATION READER SURVEY ============================================================ 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…
