People in Delicious Places

First, an apology: Knowing that we actually do not have any readers has perhaps allowed us to be slow in adding anything new here.

Second, I am going to contradict myself by offering a shout-out to another web log that recently did read us. I am not entirely sure what the title is, but let us just assume it is "Travel the world...for Beer, Wine, Chocolate" at http://beerwinechocolate.blogspot.com.

Looking it over the first thing that jumps out is the good, functional design and the uniformity of layout. Those are things we are shooting for here. It looks as if she will be reviewing restaurants, vineyards, breweries, and general going out. My petty critique would be about the white border of the pictures.

She also lays out an ambitious goal of reviewing experiences in several continents over a ten year period, but we do not know if there is a particular reason for these locations or timeline. But blogs often float around the themes of sharing, privacy, and the mystery of not knowing about the authors. Of course, there are also many examples out there of blogs that share a lot but this is not one of those. Great job Liz at "Travel the world...," seems like a fun site!

It also makes me realize that there are a lot of similar sites out there and we are all embarking on a narcissistic enterprise. If a beer drinker reviews a beer online and nobody reads it, etc.

But at a minimum my co-author and I should have fun and be left with a record of things we have imbibed. One of those things may actually be pop (soda), as well. When traveling one of the fun things I often come across is a new soda, so we'll be reviewing some of that too. I also promise we will avoid any further mission creep.

I recently found another web log...about soda and appropriately called "SodaBlog" over at http://neilkleid.tumblr.com. It has a much more hip and fun layout than us and great use of videos and pictures and in general looks very nice. It also has a very fun tone and allows itself to go on tangents more than we will. I really like the very short posts, some of which are one to two sentences and a picture. Definitely check it out and keep checking back here for a few pop reviews very soon!