November 17th - Free Press
Worldwide Feast: 55 Great Global Food Blogs
YOU know food blogging is hot when The Simpsons skewers foodies and their love of blogging on a new episode. Food culture on the web is global, with local, regional and national delicacies, interestingingredients, trends, restaurant, chefs and techniques being highlighted on an increasing number of must-read food blogs.
Saveur tracks and writes about food trends and has come up with a list of 55 great global food blogs. From India’s The Cook’s Cottage to Canada’s Brûlée Blog to Market Manila from the Philippines, there are plenty of places to start if you want to spice up your love of food.
The Sports Video Games of the Year
WE’RE only into the third week of November and already the first “Best of the Year” lists are starting to trickle out. Deadspin is looking back at the year in sports video games, giving out awards in seven categories.
Sports games are an interesting market — players demand innovation year-to-year, while at the same time wanting familiarity. Things have come a long way in the last few years, but there were no big, game-changing advancements in 2011. With FIFA 12 taking home the honours for Best Multiplayer,Tiger Woods 12 getting the nod for the Best Individual Sports Game and NBA Jam winning the Best Downloadable Game category, it’s been a decent year for sports gamers.
Even though NHL 12 didn’t make the cut, Jets fans are just excited they get to control Dustin Byfuglien when he gets caught out of position trying to rush the puck or when Chris Mason lets in a soft one.
Ashton Kutcher’s Making a Big Twitter Mistake
You may or may not have heard (or care) that Aston Kutcher (@aplusk) has decided to hand over the management of his Twitter account to Katalyst Group, a company he co-founded, after a tweet from last week put the social-networking enthusiast in hot water. Not knowing the full story about why Penn State’s Joe Paterno was fired, Kutcher took to Twitter to defend the Nittany Lion’s longtime coach. Kutcher’s knee-jerk reaction did not go over well with his followers, who obviously knew more about the alleged child sexual-abuse scandal at the school — which involved a retired assistant coach who worked with Paterno — than the new Two and a Half Men star.
While Kutcher’s post was obviously boneheaded, uninformed and a reactionary mistake played out in front of millions, it shouldn’t be a reason to ditch his account and sanitize his posts through a third-party editor. The beauty of Twitter is that it removes a level of separation between celebrities, athletes, musicians, writers, artists and their fans. Kutcher has been successful at building a following of eight million people because his posts are real, not penned by some media handler. That level of honesty and insight doesn’t happen very often in the hyper-controlled world of Hollywood.
If you want a tightly controlled message that’s been put together by a publicist, you can visit a star’s Facebook page or personal home page. Like him or not as an actor or a person, at least Kutcher was himself on Twitter.It would be a terrible trend if other active Twitter users with large numbers of followers started to change they way they used the social network.
