Just for interest’s sake, I extracted the comments table from my blog to see if I could come to any conclusions about the nature of blog commenting. My theory is that comments from non-bloggers have moved elsewhere: to Facebook and Twitter; to the recesses of the web that are difficult to plumb with any accuracy.… Continue reading Talk amongst yourselves
Category: meta
Food Blog Name Generator
So you’ve decided to start a food blog and broadcast your eating life to the world, but you can’t find the perfect moniker under which to write. So here’s a food blog name generator to fill in your blank. You should name that blog: Apologies if it comes up with the name of a real… Continue reading Food Blog Name Generator
Food Blogger Tip: New Melbourne restaurants with no reviews
A short while ago Fitzroyalty thought that I might be up to the challenge of building some sort of site that churned out lists all of the unreviewed restaurants in Melbourne. I quite clearly wasn’t. I tried a few approaches and none were at all accurate. I couldn’t think of an immediate way to legally… Continue reading Food Blogger Tip: New Melbourne restaurants with no reviews
How influential are Australian food bloggers?
Apart from that mythical beast return on investment, the hottest topic in social media measurement is influence. Does anything that happens on a blog or in Facebook or in 140 characters or less drive people to change their behaviour? I’m banking my current career on it – so I have a small vested interest in… Continue reading How influential are Australian food bloggers?
Food Blogger Tips: Google Recipe Search
This only applies if you write recipes online and care about how many people visit your site. Otherwise, move along. About a fortnight ago, Google released Recipe View in the US and Japan, a new way to trawl through their index for food preparation. When searching for a recipe online, most people type one or… Continue reading Food Blogger Tips: Google Recipe Search
Melbourne Restaurant Name Generator
Not sure what to name that new cafe or restaurant that you’ve lovingly crafted from rotting couches in a Melbourne laneway? Can’t find an fitting piece of pornocracy or Italian horror film to print on your disposable coffee cups? All you need to do is combine an honorific of some kind with the name of… Continue reading Melbourne Restaurant Name Generator
Three things that you don’t need to be a food blogger
1. An internet connection. Or at least, you don’t need an internet connection of your own. My first blog, Phnomenon, was almost entirely written without the internet at home. My workflow was to obsessively write and draft at home and when whatever I’d strung together approached a basic coherence, I’d walk to a local internet… Continue reading Three things that you don’t need to be a food blogger
James Brown advertises Cup Noodles
Yes, I’m meant to be researching for a post I’m working on, but occasionally, YouTube spits out pure gold instead of the prosaic video which you seek. Above is James Brown advertising Cup Noodles. MSG-filled snackfood will never be funkier.