According to The Age, The findings…”showed the bloggers were happier about the number of friends they had, both online and face-to-face, and were more likely to reach out to these friends for help.” “They felt more socially integrated,” Mr Baker said.
I think that makes us real Epicurians for whom, according to Wikipedia, “the highest pleasure (tranquility and freedom from fear) was obtained by knowledge, friendship, and living a virtuous and temperate life.” Okay, forget about the last bit.
The Age comes late to the Gogarty blog mauling (the comments are solid gold):
“There are competing issues in this relatively untested medium that need to be ironed out: the duty of care owed to the journalist by the news organisation and the ability of editors to exercise quality control and to provide readers with decent writing.”
Meanwhile, in Sydney Corporate Engagement has an obsolute loo and is at a technology gabfest where Fairfax people talk sensibly about blogs:
- Great bloggers are people who start conversations. Commenters / bloggers talk to each other across platforms; a very strong community. Over 76% of commenters have higher education quals.
- the first step is to choose a SEO-friendly title for the story. For instance, the SMH online where the headline writers have been thoroughly drilled on SEO came up with ‘Heath Ledger dies’, which is ideal. The Age in Melbourne came up with ‘dead in bed’. Hopeless, who is going to search for ‘dead in bed’.
Meat curtains (via Crikey): Photo-realistic and very edgy pictures of meat. A few of the artworks are still for sale. Any daring restaurateurs out there?
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Ed,
do you prefer wooden or metallic spoons.
I am just happy to be happily blogging!!! Vida x
P.S. Can I write back to Gabrielle Hamilton and tell her you also love her as much I told her I did??
Actually until I read Grocer’s comment i didn’tr really think of it as stiriing. i just saw that survey after a frien emailed it to me, was intersted in the backlash on The Guardian as I had a book idea in a simular genre as the blog and have had SEO on my mind and the whole community thing. Should I call myself tomato or the tomato guide to eating and drinking in Melbourne? That’s it.
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-dish12mar12,1,5294653.story
check out this story of US chef bloggers.
Thanks Juliette