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Washington Wine Report (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... State , and WINO Magazine weigh in. Elsewhere Dr. Vino , The Winery Website Report , and Tom Wark's Fermentation write about it among many, many others. In the second main story, the Associated Press kicks the hornet’s nest with a story from the Geological Society of America conference about terroir. The story, which was picked up by many (many) sources, was titled “Geologists...
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Dr. Vino's wine blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink . Or you can check out Tom Wark’s post for a more concise background on the logjam known as the three-tier system. Further, California law on unlicensed “ third parties ” may have affected the group’s plans. I look forward to the final analysis of how exactly Amazon attempted to achieve a different structuring of interstate...
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Fermentation (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
PLEASE TAKE THE FERMENTATION READERS SURVEY. IT'S IMPORTANT. IF YOU READ THIS BLOG, I NEED TO KNOW A FEW THINGS. CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE 2-MINUTE SURVEY Thank you, Tom Wark...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... - often run by another company specializing in the business - appears to be more recent, said Tom Wark, executive director of the Sacramento-based Specialty Wine Retailers Association, whose members include Internet wine retailers."I've noticed an uptick in organizations that you wouldn't necessarily associate with wine off the bat becoming in one way or another associated with wine," he...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... - often run by another company specializing in the business - appears to be more recent, said Tom Wark, executive director of the Sacramento-based Specialty Wine Retailers Association, whose members include Internet wine retailers."I've noticed an uptick in organizations that you wouldn't necessarily associate with wine off the bat becoming in one way or another associated with wine," he...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... - often run by another company specializing in the business - appears to be more recent, said Tom Wark, executive director of the Sacramento-based Specialty Wine Retailers Association, whose members include Internet wine retailers."I've noticed an uptick in organizations that you wouldn't necessarily associate with wine off the bat becoming in one way or another associated with wine," he...
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Bigger Than Your Head (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... if the wine will be reviewed at all; that’s exactly as it should be. No, the first problem, as Tom Wark pointed out eloquently on his blog Fermentation yesterday, is that the FTC’s new disclosure rules do not apply to “traditional” print media because they, presumably, exercise more editorial control over their material and coverage than the rank amateurs of the blogosphere. So publications...
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Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... governed other forms of media, like television or print. But that suggestion seems to be false. Tom Wark, author of the wine blog Fermentation , notes that the FTC rules that will require bloggers to disclose the receipt of comped products for review do not apply to "traditional" media: Let me put this in plainer words. If a publisher sends me (a wine blogger) a copy of a new book...
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Dirty South Wine (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... product reviews on Amazon, Yahoo, E-Bay, movie reviews, etc. are all the same to me. After reading Tom Wark's reaction to the FTC decision , it is an interesting blow that these guidelines are not for traditional media-- just the online / blogger part. The positive we fail to see is that by only regulating the online / blogosphere piece, we instantly make blogging more credible than traditional...
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McDuff's Food & Wine Trail (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Guitar slingin' somm and scholarly scribe of vinous humanism Jeremy Parzen, author of Do Bianchi , has just been interviewed in the latest edition of Tom Wark's "Bloggerview." Check it! And thanks for the mention, Jeremy. I'm honored indeed. ---------- Original content published at McDuff's Food & Wine Trail . All work copyright David McDuff and licensed under a Creative Commons...