According to the data: 2010. Or at least, that’s when interest in them began to plateau as a search term on Google and it’s probably a good marker of when they stopped growing as a medium in their own right and simply became part of the regular food media ecosystem where supply of food media… Continue reading When food blogs stopped being food blogs
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Vice is Hip Generator
You know that moment when you begin to suspect that a Twitter parody account is run by an algorithm? Maybe the Vice-like Twitter account @vice_is_hip is a bot, but just in case that it wasn’t, I built a bot to replace it. I present to you @vice_is_bot, generating an article for Vice every hour, on… Continue reading Vice is Hip Generator
Cronuts are over
I get the feeling that food trends are collapsing in ever shortening cycles: in a mere 7 months from their invention and a few months since they became shorthand for the culinary zeitgeist of 2013, the cronut has fallen out of favour, at least, according to Google’s aggregation of searches.
The new ACCC guidelines: Australian law and online reviews via @melbournegastronome
[link_content]The new ACCC guidelines: Australian law and online reviews[/link_content]
[aside_content]Something that I haven’t really considered and more of an aside to remind me to talk about this on Twitter, maybe food bloggers shouldn’t ever be judged through the lens of being journalists, even though they publish like real food journalists did back in that early-2000s era when journalists had jobs. It might be more useful to look at them like celebrities: primarily, product endorsers for hire.[/aside_content]
I ate the sponsored food: Why disclosure isn’t enough.
WE ALL ATE SPONSORED FOOD. #EDB13 — Juji Chew (@jujichews) November 9, 2013 I was at a blogging conference, throwing cats amongst some pigeons by discussing ethics, public relations and why I don’t mix public relations and my own blog in a panel with Cyn from The Food Pornographer, who does. I ate the sponsored… Continue reading I ate the sponsored food: Why disclosure isn’t enough.
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[link_content]The Cost of Killing Off Real Food Writing[/link_content]
New Pastry Generator
With the advent of the cronut, humanity has entered a new golden age of pastry. Freed from the shackles of tradition, patissiers can now start a craze by pouring any number of unrelated recipes straight into the deep fryer. Uninspired? Let the random pastry generator do the work of original human thought. You should go… Continue reading New Pastry Generator