Michael Wangbickler on April 24th, 2009

The saga continues in the realm of wine writer/blogger ethics. Since yesterday, there have been a few more posts on the subject. Joel Vincent wrote a direct response on his blog, in which he states that Mr. Parker should be ashamed of himself. He takes each point made against the Wine Bloggers’ Conference and the [...]

Continue reading about Still No Respect…

Michael Wangbickler on April 23rd, 2009

It has been an interesting week in the blogotwittersphere. Twitter has been abuzz with a debate that started as a question regarding policies at the famous Wine Advocate and morphed into a conversation on wine blogger ethics and credibility. The beginning of the trail was a story broken by Dr. Vino (a.k.a. Tyler Colman) on [...]

Continue reading about No Respect… Blogger Ethics… AGAIN?

Michael Wangbickler on April 18th, 2009

Last night was the largest global online event ever. The phenomenon of Twitter Taste Live has taken off with a life of its own. In case you’ve been living in a cave… actually, even that’s not an excuse, since I do… Twitter Taste Live is a concept developed by Bin Ends Wine whereby Tweeters everywhere, [...]

Continue reading about HdR #TTL OMG!

Michael Wangbickler on April 16th, 2009

A few weeks ago I attended the Wine 2.0 event in San Francisco at Crushpad. The folks who run Wine 2.0, Cornelius Geary, Smoke Wallin, and Abdi Humphries were kind enough to provide me with a blogger pass to the event. I had originally intended to blog live from the event, but it proved too [...]

Continue reading about Thoughts on Wine 2.0

Michael Wangbickler on April 1st, 2009

Today, the Wine Bloggers Conference announced that they had secured several additional sponsors for the 2009 conference in Santa Rosa, California. Following on the success of the previous year’s event, sponsors have been clamoring to take part in this unique conference for wine enthusiasts and writers. In addition to the continued sponsorship of the Sonoma [...]

Continue reading about WBC 09 announces new sponsors