Welcome new subscribers!
I’ve noticed that the RSS subscriber numbers here have suddenly increased by quite a bit. I think I’ve discovered the reason for it.
My RSS reader of choice is Google Reader. One of the helpful features that Google Reader offers is bundling blogs on related topics together, making it easy to find lots of content on the stuff you find interesting. (You can see them at http://www.google.com/reader/view/#directory-page.)
Well, they seem to have recently created a “Beer” bundle (among others) and Hop Talk is one of the ten blogs featured. I’m glad to say that the other nine blogs there have long been on my reading list; you’d be well-served to include them as well.
In any event, I just want to extend a welcome to all of our new subscribers.
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99 articles of beer in the reader
March 17, 2010 - 8:52 AM
Tags: 99, rss
Posted in Beer, Off-topic | No comments
(Not exactly catchy, is it?)
So I got my coffee and settled in front of my browser to read some of the article that collected in my RSS reader overnight.
This is what I saw in Google Reader:
I wonder if I can count them all down before a new article pops in.
(Yeah, okay. I’m easily amused.)
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One Thousand Articles
June 29, 2009 - 9:44 AM
Tags: administrivia, hop talk, milestones
Posted in Off-topic | No comments
Wow!
Would you believe we’ve reached 1,000 articles here on Hop Talk? We hit the milestone with Beer-a-Day #179: Hoegaarden. It took us a little less than three years to get here from Ron’s first post back in July, 2006. (Qualified? Check.)
Did I expect to reach this milestone? I’m not sure. Frankly, I don’t think I [...]
Recommended feeds bundle
If you use Google Reader to read your blog feeds (and by our count, an awful lot of you do) we’ve put together a bundle of feeds that we think you should be reading. They’re all about beer, of course, and they’re the guys that we read daily.
You can get it here: Hop Talk Recommends bundle
For [...]
Technical difficulties
April 14, 2009 - 1:02 PM
Tags: administrivia, hop talk
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We’re suffering some technical difficulties here at Hop Talk HQ. Please bear with us while we get back on track.
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Two thousand subscribers
March 12, 2009 - 10:22 PM
Tags: 2000, administrivia, rss, subscribers
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My friend Feedburner tells me that we have, as of last Monday, over 2,000 subscribers to our RSS feed.
Wow.
Ron and I together using all of the different avenues to consume an RSS feed couldn’t even come close to a hundredth of that. Thanks for making room in your subscription list for our mostly coherent ramblings.
For [...]
Hop Talk in Mutineer Magazine
March 9, 2009 - 1:01 PM
Tags: administrivia, mutineer magazine
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Mutineer Magazine is a new publication based out of Los Angeles. It is about “all things fine beverage with an emphasis on wine, beer and spirits.” It’s going national soon, and is having their official launch this May.
Anyway, one of the features of the magazine is a section on beverage blogs. For issue four they [...]
Beer-a-Day Project
December 30, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Tags: administrivia
Posted in Beer, Beer-a-Day 2009, Off-topic | 5 comments
Last year my wife took on a little photography project in part to learn more about our new home but mostly just for the hell of it. Each day, every day, for all of 2007, she took exactly one photo on black and white film. She used film, not digital, and never had a “do-over”. [...]
On vacation
August 8, 2008 - 5:00 PM
Tags: administrivia, vacation
Posted in Off-topic | No comments
I am officially on vacation for the next week. I don’t expect you’ll see many articles from me during the next nine days or so.
I will, of course, be on the lookout for new and interesting beers, although I’m not traveling very far afield. (Beer and food or gas? Tough decision.)
Anyway, I’ll see you all [...]
New look
July 9, 2008 - 8:21 PM
Tags: administrivia
Posted in Off-topic | 1 comment
For regulars who come to the site directly instead of using an RSS reader, you will have noticed the new look of the site. I think this is a cleaner look with some nice bold colors.
I’m still in the process of getting widgets and things squared away. If you notice anything “wonky”, please let me [...]
Administrivia: comment spam
February 15, 2008 - 9:41 AM
Tags: administrivia
Posted in Off-topic | 1 comment
We try very hard to not write about the nuts-and-bolts of running our little beer blog. You don’t care about that. You care about beer.* Frankly, so do we.
But, sometimes it can’t be avoided when it’s something with the potential to affect the communications between us.
If you’re a blogger, you know that comment spam is [...]
December 16, 2008 - 9:49 AM
Guess you need to start writing more now Al