With a steady thirst for ways to complicate things, we’ve coded an improvement to the SIX DC Food Blog RSS collections previously at the bottom of the site. There are now DOZENS of food blogs represented from both DC and other points around the World in a trap we call, The Watched Pot.
The Watched Pot delivers only the latest posts from a constantly growing list of food blogs worldwide that post with regularity. “Farm” sites that produce upwards of 12 or more food posts daily are certainly not invited.
The Watched Pot is a new way to expose yourself to new food blogs from other cultures and regions. Recipes and stories of daily life permeate the blogs which we’ve so far chosen to include.
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The Food Newsie Ag Desk is headed up by a fresh, but not green, blue-streaked, no-nonsense, don’t-take-my-picture Feasibility machine. He’s the monster hiding under the boogeyman’s bed. We’ll call him, Bob. With Bob’s help, no one gets away with anything.
Bob.
After years and decades in the field, literally, globetrotting agriculture feasibility analyst, Bob, has made his way to a peaceful and quiet retirement. His one mistake, telling us to drop by anytime.
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Sites need purpose. It became clear early in development that many aspects of food were already covered by tons of passionate bloggers. As this site was designed by a computer programmer, an interesting bit of code floated by – a Feedback Form. Simple enough, “but how can we use it better,” we asked ourselves. Ah-ha! The Tip Line is a way to rat out unfair, unhealthy, uncouth, improper methods, places and people.
The Tip Line at Food Newsie in its infancy. It was a pleasure to design and code and we dare say that it’s the first and possibly only Rat Line of its kind designed to keep diners safe and raise the bar at restaurants everywhere behind the scenes.
To quote the
Facebook Page entry “The Tip Line is to help you help the rest of us to eat safely and know what we’re getting into. If you know a scam or a lie that’s being passed on to the public and it’s just wrong, here’s the vehicle through which you warn others! …
Thought it might be nice to allow visitors from Washington DC interested in restaurant reviews, food pictures and recipes to search within the confines of the greatest city on Earth. Every time a new DC Food Blogger appears at a Happy Hour and adds their name to the list and is announced, they would be added to the list of sites searched! Interested in this kind of solidarity?
This kind of promotion does several things, it strengthens the might of the DC Food Bloggers; it promotes indie authors to write more articles, more reviews and more recipes that are more relevant to visitors, and; it begins to tie loosely written island-blogs into a stronger network to be reckoned with.
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Bryan was born later than he ought to have been by most accounts – he values courtesy, manners and spelling. Since he was a tot, he had always been interested in the stories that other people tell; where they come from, how they are and why they chose to do the things they’ve done or do. This lead to nosey questions tempered by courtesy and a respect to not intrude. This, then, lead to encounters that more closely resembled interviews.
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