Dr. Horowitz's Business Review of Wine, Marketing, and Technology Media

Wine

The Pour – This Wine Critic Can Drive People to Drink – NYTimes.com: Vaynerchuk is impressive–like a cross between Howard Stern and Donald Trump.
winesooth.com » Blog Archive » Palate Press, The Online Wine Magazine: I’d never heard of palatepress.com before. I wonder if palatepress.com will succeed?
Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto: Part 2 of 4…before the drama starts.
Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto: Part 3 of Rockaway-gate.
Blending bargains | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat | Santa Rosa, CA: I really liked the Joel Gott zin I had recently… interesting article on the negociants of wine country.
1WineDude in the L.A. Times (More on Wine Competition Controversy) | 1 Wine Dude: When will somebody start the website WineTastingCompetitionsSociallyNetworked.com? There’s cellarTracker.com for socially networked tasting notes, but somebody really needs to start a socially networked wine competition site.
Another Amazing Legend from the Wine Business Visits WLTV – Part 2 – Episode #733: Good discussion of wine press/media/technology at 16:15. 93 point wines aren’t selling? OMG!

Marketing

Who’s Doing What Online? : NPR: Do we really have to keep using LinkedIn?
Please ignore the optimism machine | Marketplace From American Public Media: I hadn’t heard of this wine retail experiment. I guess there is a reason the muzak corporation is around.
Advertising’s creative revolution | Marketplace From American Public Media: Art & Copy is now in my Netflix queue.
Stuff You Should Know @ podcast.com: Has a winery used geocaching to promote themselves yet? Is there a blog winecountrygeocaching.com?
How a self-branding expert self-brands: A good critical take on personal branding.

Technology

In the Woods – Create a Funky Parallax Background Effect using jQuery: Woahhhhhhh, look at the clouds move. That might cause induced regression (read Rushkoff’s Coercion) and make me buy. Check out the demo and click on the boxes in the upper right.
New Screencast: Random Pet Peeves | CSS-Tricks: Good to know that people don’t like roundups. Should I stop doing this type of post?
10 Really Helpful Traversing Functions in jQuery – Nettuts+: Not as cool as the clouds, but this helps show the power of jquery.
Search Engine Optimization 101 – Nettuts+: great tips!
Ekin Ertaç: helpful wordpress cheatsheet.

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