Wine for the Masses

Part Deux

Okay. 2/3 of the weekend gone. Still, I sit here reading about other people's lives and interests.

I seems to me that in the search for wine blogs, I found a lot of sites that go into so much detail about years, types, and so on. However, I'd like to see one for the casual drinker. The guy who likes wine with a dinner he makes to show the parents that he can cook and yet not burn down the house, but when he gets to the store, they all look the same and he has no clue what he wants or needs. Where's the aid for this poor lost soul?

So, another topic, help for the impatient, the inexperienced and the inept. By talking with some local wine sellers and growers, it could become a central information spot for a brief jaunt into the world of social beverages without the burden of memorization and commitment. I don't want to be too artsy or hip and come across as trying to hard. Just a simplistic, straightforward series of notes on what wines are good for what events and how one should go about finding a good version of that. Ooh, and perhaps I'll figure out the whole idea of concise writing by then too!

Gizmodo has really interested me as a blog (even though it seems to be more of a corporate sponsored regime). It gives little burbs on various topics (more like a magazine in short articles) with links to full stories on other sites. It seems as more of an aggregator than a blog, but that does seem to be a theme among bloggers.

In addition, MacAddict, while still a normal magazine and it's corresponding website, seems to have an unrelated blog on their main page. The blurbs don't necessarily align with any stories in past or future articles and don't always have a lot to do with the Macintosh platform. They are well-written with ample relevant links and useful information (most of the time). Macworld, just blatantly states that they have weblog entries and they follow a more scripted, magazine-aligned format.

Posted by Ben at 9/04/2005 01:56:00 PM