by Ed on May 25, 2008
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Dissident Chef wrote:Where are you Tomato? Are you flying the flag yet?
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He means: I am running an underground restaurant?
Regulars will remember last winter and spring the hype over an alleged Melbourne underground restaurant. While a software updated meant the content of the post was lost, the short of it is that Zingara Cucina was somewhere between a hoax and an an experiment in viral marketing.
For a moment I was sucked in as was The Age and The Australian magazine.
I think what’s evolved instead is something far more democratic. It’s not underground. it’s exposed on this blog for all to see.
For want on a better name, we called the first meet the Bloggers’ Banquet. There’s now been version 2.0 and most recently 2.1 - 13 of us took over Jamon Sushi in South Yarra for a night to explore the melt in the mouth delights of wagyu.
Jamon is one of the few places in Melbourne where you can eat and learn a few things too.
I’ve written about one of these wagyu meals before you can also check out Cin’s amazing pics and posts from Neil, Elliot, Thahn, and Claire.
What next?
There was talk with Mellie from Tummy Rumbles of trying to book out the whole of Tempura Hajime. And I suggested to Sticky (who didn’t make the wagyu night) that we gor for some authentic Chinese and that she orders off menu.
Also, there may be a few thing coming up for restaurant launches too.
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by Ed on March 5, 2008
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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by Ed on January 25, 2008
