How’s it goin’, eh? I’m just back from the Great White North. Okay, maybe I wasn’t THAT far north, but I was close. As is our usual tradition, my family and I strapped on our snowshoes and traveled to our homeland of Michigan for the holidays. The year 2009 kind of ended on a crazy [...]
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Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had approved final revisions to their Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. These Guides were last updated in 1980 (i.e. pre-internet).
A key [...]
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If you spend any time at all on this blog, you may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything in a while. No, I’m not dead on the side of the road somewhere. And, no, I haven’t given up on the blog. If anything, I’m more fired up than ever. Nope, I haven’t written for [...]
This week I attended the Family Winemakers of California trade tasting in San Francisco. There were hundreds of family-owned wineries pouring their wines. They ranged in production from very small to quite large. The concept behind the organization that puts on this tasting each year is to offer a support organization for the hundreds of [...]
I have just returned from the 2nd annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference. I was there at the 1st conference, and my how things have changed. Last year, most people I spoke with regarding the conference usually ended up scratching their heads or looking at me like I had a second one. Wine blogging was [...]
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