Comments on: Scottish wine, NY lobbying, tree planting, OWC – sipped and spit

By: Super Luxurious Blavish Links - bLavish

Super Luxurious Blavish Links - bLavish — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:20:29 +0000

[...] Dr. Vino: The skinny on Scotish wine [...]

By: Wine Splodge

Wine Splodge — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:50:04 +0000

Trust me vineyards ain’t coming to Scotland any time soon. We saw the sun here yesterday for the first time in a month and, in the best presbyterian tradition, are paying for it today. It was so dark this morning I had to turn the lights on. Also, they’ll need to invent a vine that loves rain. Over an inch of it in an afternoon last week and there hasn’t been a totally dry day since June. Oh well, maybe we’ll get an Indian Summer? Though frankly, I’d settle for anywhere elses summer.

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:10:03 +0000

kevin, yes, a direct link would be giving credit. I didn’t see any links to Tyler or his work in either of the articles that copied his data. Did I miss something?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:53:08 +0000

I like the Australian winery’s approach to countering its emissions. Planting trees is a smart and simple alternative to offset their numbers without completely restructuring their framework for production.

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:50:13 +0000

question: is direct linking not considered giving credit?

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:49:13 +0000

on the sustainability of wine, this is an interesting discussion. in theory, we could close the loop on wine by making wine ourselves. problem is that wine doesn’t grow everywhere. the next option, is to create enough offsets to mitigate the carbon footprint of drinking non-local wine.

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:12:45 +0000

Not giving credit for others’ ideas = plagiarism.

Plagiarism = stealing.

I understand that authors and editors are under pressure to keep wordcount low, but having others contribute ideas and then failing to give them even a link is reprehensible.

If it were me, I would punitively add a rel=”nofollow” tag to any link to these mainstream media sources, going forward. Seriously.

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:43:40 +0000

Ha, well, “stealing” is a bit strong. I spoke with Beth Shapouri once on the phone for about 20 minutes and the fact checker/copy editor at NY mag called me four times to check–along with calculations and wine picks–the spelling of my name.

Tony Dokoupil and I exchanged a couple of emails about my coauthored paper.

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:14:50 +0000

Re: “SPIT: a tip of the hat”…

Looking at the NY Mag and Newsweek pieces, I kept expecting to see a reference to you, or this site, or your research with Pablo Paster. It seems like they ripped you off and didn’t give credit. Care to comment?

I wonder how much Tony Dokoupil of Newsweek and Beth Shapouri & Christine Whitney of New York Magazine earned by stealing from you, Tyler.