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Open letter to food bloggers, food geeks and interesting people
- Got an interest in food and blogging?
- Know clever things about the web, quality editorial, local foods, google maps and stuff?
- Want a free tour of Channel 4’s landmark building and a free beer or two?
This is a sort of open invitation to Chris Heathcote, James Bridle, Seb, (all suggested by Russell, who’s also very welcome to attend) Silverbrow, Chris, Toby, Dan (if he wants to come down to London) and any other food geeks who’d like to to come to Channel 4 and have a look at what we’re doing for when Eating Albion is reborn on to Channel4.com.
Obviously you need an interest some of the following: food, blogging, user-generated stuff, Google API, local produce, maps, etc. Present from C4 will be me, Catherine, Andy Pipes and Hannah. The agenda is pretty loose, but I’ll start by opening the beers and explaining a bit about the history of the idea and where we’re up to now, before hopefully having a lively discussion about it. There’s not a huge number of technical things we can add or develop, so this is more about how we harness the editorial and tech together to create something interesting and worthwhile that lasts beyond the seven-month first phase of this project. We think we’ve a good idea of how that will work, but we’d like to hear what you’ve got to say.
The suggested time and date for this shindig is:
5-7pm (or should we make it 6-8pm?)
on any of the following…
Thursday 27th March
Friday 28th March
Tuesday 1st April
Wednesday 2nd April
@ Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road
To those name-checked above, please use the comments below or mail me to let me know if you can make it so I can get the best date to suit everyone. To any other interested folk who’d like to attend, mail me a link to your blog so I know you know what you’re talking about. We can only really accommodate 15 on top of the C4 people tops.
My email address is eyedropper .at. mac .dot. com.
Afterward I’ll take you on a tour of the C4 building, including a view of the glass phallus, and then maybe a snifter in the pub for those who want to carry on.
PS: I hope this open invite on the internet doesn’t turn into this. It’d be hard explaining to Uncle Andy why 200+ food bloggers smashed up his lovely TV head offices. Arf!
8 comments 17 March, 2008
Forkd - you know, it’s the Flickr of food
My Forkd ‘feta’ invite finally arrived the other day, and I’ve been checking it out. Obviously it’s early days yet, with a fair few features still ‘coming soon’, but that’s OK. I made risotto for tea tonight, with the weekend’s lef-over chicken, and thought ‘I’ll add that as my first recipe’. However, Jared’s already done it. OK, slightly different technique and type of ingredients, but essentially the same dish. It kind of knocks the wind out of your ‘I want to contribute too’ sails.
And, while 1,692,254 people have uploaded a photo-tagged sunset onto Flickr at the time of writing, will that many upload risotto recipes to Forkd? Every photo is unique, although recipes aren’t supposed to be unique - they’re supposed to be an authoritative guide to how to do it, right? Having said that, the BBC has 13 mushroom risotto recipes, all different.
Also, there are 971 groups about food recipes on Flickr already, but what’s interesting about Forkd is the ability to alter recipes, thus creating descendants of that recipe. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out. I guess the Flickr equivalent would be allowing people to recrop and colour-correct your pictures, then add them to their own Flickr stream (which I suppose they could already do under certain Creative Commons licencing, which is what Forkd is using).
Mind you, when I first started using Flickr it was an instant messaging photo-swapping site, and look where that is now. It’s evolved faster than Spock in Star Trek III. I remember Cal coming to do a talk at the BBC years ago, where he said after six months they’d thrown the whole thing away and started again. I hope Forkd’s got a similarly rapid evolution planned, because like the mammal in the world of the large content dinosaurs, it could become something fantastic.
Anyway, with chicken and mushroom risotto (though mine had peas) covered on Forkd, I thought I’d add my linguini with vlams recipe from a while back, and here it is.
1 comment 15 January, 2008
