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Just how acceptable are anonymous comments on wine blogs? The issue is attracting a fair amount of heat but not much light, a bit like dark matter. My recent FIFA fiasco story is a case in point. Now that www.winenews.co.za accepts anonymous comments (in the past it was necessary to register before passing comment) the flood gates are well and truly open: 25 on the story in a week. Some valuable (thanks Jean Vincent Ridon), some mean personal attacks (no thanks, Billy Bob) and some controversial. Like the one from “a producer” who claimed to be from Darling, a claim denied by Shaun McLaughlin from Darling Wine Producers.
A Grape contributor
The Grape communal blog is divided into eight panels like a Japanese Bento Box full of goodies. Panel #2 contains Haikus penned against the recent Helderberg fires (conventional photos being unavailable as someone nicked the panelist’s “fancy” cell-phone and camera) while Panel #4 reproduces Michael Fridjhon’s informative Business Day and Weekender columns cut and pasted from the Business Day website. A bit of an overkill as a simple link to the mother ship would suffice, like Kevin does over on www.winenews.co.za.
