My Social Bookmarking Soulmate

Jonathan Milder may not know it, but we are social bookmarking soul mates. I hope I am not coming off too strong! He has many tags that are on the topic of food culture, some of them include “trends,” “health,” and “culture.” By looking at his tag cloud he has many more tags that are relevant to the topic of food, which seems as if it could be overwhelming, but his tags are organized. The tags that my blog would benefit from include the names of different types of cuisines, like “Korean,” “African” and “Middle Eastern” and he includes tags that are for reviews, critics, and even Zagat reviews.  This sounds like the case of love at first sight.

            So how many tags does he got? Well let’s just say he has one tag that is as low as 1, but he has other tags as high as 2000. Many other tags range from 300-600. His last three tags were on February 28, 2014 and if I keep scrolling down he tags very often. This works in my favor because he has recent tags and tags as early as 2010. Finding some scholarly articles about my topic that is recent was a bit difficult to find, so this is a great resource.

            I was clicking on a lot of what he’s got, but I started with the articles under his “zagat” tag. One article was from the Huffington Post about Zagat’s Top 2012 restaurants in America. The article was more about how diners were actually dining less. So that was not what I was expecting.  Another Zagat page was about how Google bought Zagat for their Google+Local feature. As it turns out Google wanted to compete with websites like Yelp and so they bought Zagat. Zagat, known for their accurate ratings of quality restaurants failed to display that on the Google platform. There were many restaurants that had the incorrect information displayed on the Google+Local. This is intriguing.

            I looked more at Mr. Milder’s tags and most of them spark my own personal interests, and others were spot on with my topic. To backup the argument that globalization has allowed local restaurant businesses thrive with the cuisine from different countries around the world I have found articles that talk about ethnic and fusion restaurants. One article I found highlights the up and coming Filipino cuisines. It mentions that as Americans have tasted the Korean and Thai food and have grown accustomed to it. With the interests Americans have of Asian food flavors there is a demand for more. (Americans are always wanting more!) Filipino food is now in.

            Jonathan Milder has a lot of bookmarks that are harmonious with my topic. There is a lot for my own personal interest and I am sure others would find fascinating as well. His bookmarks would add recent data for my blog so I can stay relevant on my topic.