{"id":1509,"date":"2010-10-22T13:09:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2010-10-22T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:23:42","slug":"sorry-to-miss-the-european-wine-bloggers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/sorry-to-miss-the-european-wine-bloggers-conference","title":{"rendered":"Sorry to miss the European Wine Bloggers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Vienna. I would have loved to attend, but it’s a big clash with half-term, when I have a self-imposed travel ban so that I can be home with the kids.<\/p>\n

There’s a live feed<\/a> for those, like me, who couldn’t attend, but this currently isn’t working. I’m following proceedings by using the twitter tag #ewbc.<\/p>\n

I’ve been blogging for a while (since 2001, making this one of the oldest of all wine blogs), but there’s lots I have to learn, and the speaker list at the conference looks really good.<\/p>\n

One thing I would say, though, is that I have a problem with the label ‘blogger’. I’m not seen as a proper blogger by some, simply because I do other things apart from just blog. On one site cataloguing UK wine bloggers, I’m not listed as a blogger, but in a separate section for blogging journalists. I see blogging as a tool for communicating – it’s good for some purposes, but not for others. I take my blog seriously, and it gets a lot of traffic, but while I like to be taken seriously as a wine blogger, I don’t really want to be labelled as a blogger.<\/p>\n

My policy for blogging is little and often. Rough and ready. Immediate, with a strongly personal voice. Of the moment. I’m probably breaking lots of rules.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I shall be following the proceedings in Vienna with interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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