A: When Gourmet Traveller launches it.
To date we have a home page and one post each on the magazine’s Food, Wine and Travel.
Each blog has “del.icio.us this”, “dig this” and “send to a friend” but have no real blog functionality. There are no RSS feeds which make it impossible for any readers to subscribe to the page and keep updated. There appears to be no way to leave comments either.
The first food post is an inauspicious start to blogging giving an anonymous post on with behind the scenes photos of Gourmet Traveller Christmas party – posted on February 12. Another anonymous poster tells us: ” A few of Gourmet Traveller WINE’s regular contributors have, recently, been incommunicado while judging at the Sydney Royal Wine Show.” At least we have a named poster – Andrew Mueller – for the travel blog.
It’s early days and all new food blogs are welcome, especially from the dead tree world.
Let’s hope they pick up their game and add some functionality to the sites – and play social.
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I suppose the print media have to jump quite a way from what they are familiar with in order to transition in mindset from a traditional format to the digital medium. Overseas Publishers have the savvy hand of interactive experts to guide them, whilst in Australia these people are still thin on the ground. I would however have thought that it would have been common sense for GT to consult popular blogs of a similar ilk such as The Guardian and The New York Times for reference before venturing into the medium.
Hope I did that right, wish me luck!!! Vida x