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Feb 02, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

Welcome, ABC 774 listeners

Cheers to Lindy Burns for the interview and fellow interviewee Ellie from Breakfast Out. I managed to get in shout outs to Austin Bush, Noodlepie and the morbidly obese dog. Apologies for dissembling on the best pho in Melbourne question – I’m still not sure where that is.

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Oct 02, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments

10 Food Blog Templates

It’s been two years now since the start of the Last Appetite, so I’m beginning to consider putting together a new design. The choice is between building/modifying a new one from a free food blog template myself or having a template built bespoke. Either way, the process involves me trawling

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Jun 06, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

On the lack of food blog coherence

Grapes, apropos of nothing Sorry I’ve been a bit light on providing content over the past few weeks, I’ve been busy elsewhere, in a frenzy that sounds lke it comes straight from the kitchen of a Wes Anderson film. At SBS, I’ve been writing on those interlinked topics of mince

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May 17, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 10 Comments

Four tips for food blog PR

There has been debate on the Australian food bloggers group about opting in or out of the public relations onslaught, mostly because when it comes to food blogging, some PR people act like dicks. It is no great secret that Australian business is a long way behind the US when

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Apr 05, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 13 Comments

How to food blog: breaking Food Buzz

I know that this is a little trite, but relearning how to play Javascript for the 4 Ingredients post has emboldened me to break Food Buzz, the giant “Web 2.0″ food blog content scraper. If you want to stop Food Buzz from using your content (but still retain the incoming

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Mar 11, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

The Long Shot

Austin Bush and I have been throwing around ideas for new projects for a while but the one that that seems to have most resonance is chasing down regional Thai food. Sure, there’s Thai food cookbooks aplenty, but few (if any) that contextualise Thai food into regions. There’s a competition

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Dec 04, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments

Food Pornographers against Internet Censorship

Bananas! If you haven’t been following Australian news, the Australian Government is about to embark upon its attempt to censor the Internet (or at least, censor websites and not HTTPS, IPv6, encrypted data or the torrentz, which is where the depraved of Australia will flee to get their porny fix).

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Nov 24, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Food Blogging as Wunderkammer

More than occasionally I wonder what is food blogging and how can it continue to differ (and differentiate itself) from other media. The late-90s chestnut of blogging being “all about community” has been all but superseded by real communities moving online. As much as I’m not a huge fan of

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