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Another wonderful example of Social Media blending with hard copy is the evolution of Food52, a crowd-sourced social-media recipe/food site started by Amanda Hesser (of NY Times fame) and Merrill Stubbs freelance food-writer and recipe-tester. This site invites viewers to submit recipes — themed each week, for a contest. Amanda and Merrill test each recipe, come up with 2 finalists, and the readers will decide the winner. At the end of 52 weeks, the winning entries will be entered into a cookbook (hard copy — ink and paper!) that will be published by The HarperStudio. In the meantime, the cooks, readers, and contributors get to share recipes, chat with each other, add additional content on related issues (ingredients, cooking tools, cookbooks etc) in an ongoing collaboration. I was lucky enough to get an interview with Amanda and Merrill in between their frantic bouts of cooking. Click below and find out why Merrill’s mother is NOT, NOT, NOT allowed to submit recipes….
So at the end, there is a hard-copy cookbook that will have had a full year’s worth of preliminary buzz. The Food52 team is busily tweeting, uploading videos to Vimeo, linking to other food blogs. It’s a win-win for the publisher, the reader/contributor, and the Food52 team of Merrill and Amanda. Food 52 Intro from Food52 on Vimeo.
We are still almost TV-less. Having discontinued our cable contract, and getting only a few broadcast stations (none of which the kids watch), we as a family have entered a new era. Not to say that we aren’t still media-centric. I can’t count the number of screens, laptops, shuffles, iPods, gameboys, Wiis in our house. But our loyalties have shifted. I can only assume we are part of a trend. Both kids are living on YouTube and Hulu for different reasons. My son is constantly searching for Wii game cheats and tips. I hope he goes into game programming so he can make some money with this obsession. Both son and daughter are looking for movie clips, comic stuff and all-around entertainment — both have come running to us to drag us over to see something they find awesome. Same daughter (teenager extraordinaire) is also glued to Facebook. See — typical family. And we DO still talk to each other (she said optimistically) I’m still the podcast junkie. My eyes get tired, and I get weary of screens in general. I’ve subscribed to innumerable podcast shows – trade/media related, news/business, and more personal interests, and I could spend all of my free time happily sporting earbuds (mine are PINK!). I do worry. With so much stimulation in the house, why go out? Why see people? What happens to social interaction (non electronic)? Are the kids losing their ability to be social? I would love to get feedback from you all on how your family has integrated media into the family. One shameless plug. Roxanne Darling will be presenting to the SVAMA Wed, Jan 28th on topic of Online video. Rox is a wonderful presenter, and this will be interactive and fun. Come join us!
While I am madly updating our blog roll, I wanted to call out blogs in the Web 2.0 area that I think are worth the daily/weekly read. That is, so far. This list grows exponentially each month and it’s difficult to keep a lid on it for my own sanity. That said, below are current faves in the business arena. I won’t bore you with my food blog addiction – we can have that conversation another time, just email me. In all cases, I suggest you subcribe to their RSS feeds, to make the perusing more efficient. Web Strategy by Jeremiah Jeremiah has been in the Web 2.0 space for forever and has experienced and explored it from many different angles. His intelligent coverage is excellent. Marketing in a Web 2.0 World LaSandra is an active participant in the Web 2.0 community – speaking, contributing, commenting, twittering. Worth following! TechCrunch A classic. Go there daily Adrants another classic – more on gen’l online marketing, but lots lately on 2.0 DishyMix blog This podcast is an ongoing education on the quickly evolving online and web 2.0 space. The blog is a back up to the Dishymix podcast series. Intelligent, always cutting edge, worthy of a weekly listen and view. Subscribe now! Let me know what your favorites are. There is so much terrific content out there in the blogosphere that it’s easy to miss gems. |
