Articles by Adriana Velez
Adriana Velez is a food writer and activist living in Brooklyn. She is currently building the online community for the Brooklyn Food Coalition, tweets as @AdrianaV, and blogs at What I Made for Dinner. She wrote for Cookie Magazine's food blog until they, too, folded Monday morning.
Once upon a time there was a beloved magazine. People were obsessed with this magazine. They marked the pages. They went shopping with the magazine. They discussed its pages in bars, over the water cooler, throughout the blogsphere. The magazine was passed between friends, between mothers and daughters. People did not recycle their copies but gave them privileged spaces on their bookshelves and coffee tables. The magazine had a website with some web-exclusive content and tools–and people loved this as well. Then one day, Conde Nast decided to kill this magazine. People were devastated.
I would suggest that the next wave in food publishing isn’t necessarily just blogging–or at least, it’s something that includes blogs but is much larger. This is Web 2.0, folks, the era of social media. I get all my news from Twitter and Facebook. True, the tweets and honks lead my to online articles and blog posts, but the distribution completely different from print media: scattered, informal, personal.
