There has been debate on the Australian food bloggers group about opting in or out of the public relations onslaught, mostly because when it comes to food blogging, some PR people act like dicks. It is no great secret that Australian business is a long way behind the US when it comes to online PR.… Continue reading Four tips for food blog PR
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How to food blog: breaking Food Buzz
I know that this is a little trite, but relearning how to play Javascript for the 4 Ingredients post has emboldened me to break Food Buzz, the giant “Web 2.0” food blog content scraper. If you want to stop Food Buzz from using your content (but still retain the incoming links and traffic from Food… Continue reading How to food blog: breaking Food Buzz
4 Ingredients
Thanks to the Twitter procrastination pipe and Ed Charles, I recently became aware of the 4 Ingredients cookbook and associated television show. After the unshakable rage and bewilderment had subsided on my first viewing, I realised that it should be me profiting from people’s inability to not only cook but select appropriate means of learning… Continue reading 4 Ingredients
One Food Blogger per 120,000 Australians
I updated my list of Australian food bloggers and in my post-work statistical analysis haze, I pulled out Excel. There are 176 blogs in my list, broken down as follows: State No. of Blogs WA 12 NSW 43 SA 7 VIC 82 QLD 16 ACT 11 Tas 5 NT 0 As percentages, the results seem… Continue reading One Food Blogger per 120,000 Australians
Food Pornographers against Internet Censorship
Bananas! If you haven’t been following Australian news, the Australian Government is about to embark upon its attempt to censor the Internet (or at least, censor websites and not HTTPS, IPv6, encrypted data or the torrentz, which is where the depraved of Australia will flee to get their porny fix). For me, it is going… Continue reading Food Pornographers against Internet Censorship
Food Blogging as Wunderkammer
More than occasionally I wonder what is food blogging and how can it continue to differ (and differentiate itself) from other media. The late-90s chestnut of blogging being “all about community” has been all but superseded by real communities moving online. As much as I’m not a huge fan of Facebook, there’s 120 million other… Continue reading Food Blogging as Wunderkammer
Spring blogging doldrums
Spring scared the hell out of me this year. It is so much more radiant and incredible after living in the tropics for a while. Trees aren’t supposed to change colour and regrow. In the tropics, most trees that look as if they are dead are in fact dead with invariable certainty. I’m blaming this… Continue reading Spring blogging doldrums
Last Appetite turns one.
The Last Appetite is one year old today (if you don’t count the placeholder post that I made a few months prior to real launch). In that time, I’ve eaten in six different countries, written 100-odd posts and according to my spam protection, I’ve received 4,300 spam comments. It’s my 1004th day of food blogging… Continue reading Last Appetite turns one.