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For those here who don't read my blog an interesting discussion has
broken out in the comments of this post:

http://winecast.net/2007/06/13/please-build-a-notes-plug-in/

I'm going to work with James on adapting the existing Wordpress
hReview plug-in for wine reviews and begin to post my tasting notes in
this format. If anyone would like to participate with us, let me know.

Here are the details:

Exisiting plug-in code (v 0.3) as a starting point - http://www.aes.id.au/?page_id=28
Target Wordpress 2.2
Modify/add wine relevant fields
Change rating system to 100 point scale (i.e. 50-100, not current 5
star)

Working prototype by July 15.

Ryan also posted an challenge for someone to come up with the "Twitter
for tasting notes" (e.g. super easy entry with RSS auto-publishing to
popular blog platforms like Wordpress). This sounds to me like Cork'd
with email output or running an aggregator on your blog subscribed to
your notes feed at those services. The only problem is no one seems to
publish the details of the notes to their RSS feeds in the four
services I tested (Cork'd, Bottletalk, Vinorati, Winelog). Of these,
only Vinorati sent the text notes down the feed but there were some
other things I didn't like with the output and input is not as slick
as I'd like to see. So of these, if Cork'd output more detail, I might
just log my notes there and setup Winecast to poll the feed once a day
to republish them on my site. Let me know if I should check out any
other tasting notes sites to see if they might work for this.

Cheers!
--
Tim Elliott
Winecast