As we've mentioned, what's popular is not always what we predicted, and there's little correlation between how much effort we put into a post and the amount of feedback/enthusiasm we receive. The public has their favorite posts, and we're much obliged. But then we have our favorites. The posts that we remember most vividly, that provided the most interesting experiences, the...
One technique that seems to ensure instant fame for your blog is to plop down on a Monday morning and announce that you're going to be taking the vast reading public through a "week" of themed material. Like the novel and three-hour movies, its epic scale means you'll be able to delve deeply into the intricacies of a certain topic, while still wrapping things up nicely by Friday. It's a bloggi...
These posts are what we'd call sleepers. When published, they didn't always make much of a splash. Sometimes, they were haphazard little posts we threw up in a rush. We expected people to smile a little, maybe comment, then the posts would fall into the archives forever.
Thank God for Google. As the year progressed, we started to notice that many people were arriving at our website through...
Yesterday we presented you with a list of our favorite food pictures for the year. But for every perfectly framed culinary moment, we had a hundred average ones which got quickly erased or were forever banished to the external hard drive. We tried to be good editors.
But occasionally a truly bad picture would emerge, a creation so terrible it took a gall to make. And even more gall to...
We began this little site round 'bout a year ago. We had big plans for year in review week, and of course got sidetracked. Now, it's about a year-and-a-month review, but whatever. This week we'll be going through a few of the things we've collected over the year.
More than recipes, cooking experience, good advice, writing practice, and interesting friendships, the one thing we seem to have a...