Over on the 20×200 blog this week I wrote an introduction for the affordable-artwork website’s latest Vintage Editions release, Angelo Rizutto’s, “The King of Pizza.” As I mention there, I was worried at first that I wouldn’t have much to say about it, but I was honored to have been asked, and by no less … Continue reading Angelo Rizzuto: the ur New York photoblogger
Stellar is a nifty social-web thingamajig built by uberblogger Jason Kottke. It aggregates “favorites” from a number of familiar social-media sources — so far Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo. When one of the folks you follow on Stellar favorites something, it appears in your “flow.” What you end up with is a Twitter-like stream of … Continue reading Notes after 3 weeks of Stellar use
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On Gothamist the other day, I was a bit sad to see how this post on Slice was credited to Serious Eats instead. Sure, they’re from the same “family” of blogs, and, sure, “The Food Lab” posts generally live on the Serious Eats homepage, so maybe this isn’t the best example to whine about, but … Continue reading Eclipsed
As an editor at a food blog, I’m used to getting messages like this:
Hello,
How much does it cost to eat out in florence?
There are so many factors to consider. Would you be kind enough as to give me some pointers as what to look for or avoid?
Any help appreciated. Thank you very much. yours truly, Fred
The first time I got one, I got snookered and ended up posting it as a Dear Slice letter on Slice.
But then I started getting more, all from the email address petrov.gazprom@gmail.com, all signed with different names: Continue reading “Weird question-asking spam”
