Twinings Weekly Blog Report: Rooibos: Some Health Information; Teaware: Chataku; Wakamatsu-no-Mukashi Matcha from Ippodo; Stringing Tea

This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from the Twinings Tea Blog, where you will find the best tea blogs by tea lovers from around the world.

Rooibos: Some Health Information Elliot, at the Miro Tea blog, continues his examination of rooibos, the increasingly popular herbal beverage from South Africa. Last time out, he took a look at how rooibos is processed. This time around, some thoughts on the potential health benefits of rooibos. For more on rooibos and health, look here.

Teaware: Chataku What's a chataku? As Katrina pointed out, in a recent post at The Tea Pages, it's "a saucer (coaster) that sits under the small handleless Japanese teacups known as yunomi." Chataku are also known in China as chatuo.

Wakamatsu-no-Mukashi Matcha from Ippodo The Tea Nerd reviewed some matcha recently at his site and also included some striking photos that documented the preparation process. Matcha is a powdered Japanese green tea that's used in the Japanese tea ceremony, among other things. For more about matcha and health, look here.

"Stringing Tea": Intro & Part 1 If the phrase "stringing tea" doesn't ring any bells, it's because it was apparently coined in an interesting post by Mellow Monk. The introduction and part one of the multi-part post relate how a three- person film crew from Europe's Arte TV network followed him on a tea- buying expedition as part of their research for a documentary on Japanese green tea.

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Dennis Pang
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Another lonesome blogger. Instead of talking about himself overthere comes here and talks about himself over there. Or blindless computer posting anywhere and everywhere the word tea is mentioned. Why did you close down the US plant? Better yet where was the US plant located? I'm one of those people who aint going to take it anymore till I bend over to get my last tin of Twinings to add to the compost pile.

Jim

Reply to
Space Cowboy

Yeah, maybe I opened the door when I did it... but I only occasionally posted something here from my blog if it was topical and things were slow here to spur some discussion. I have stopped and only in the rarest case would I do it again or if things were slow, but we're well into tea time again and there has been no shortage of discussion.

I think we all know of your blogging for Twinnings now, Dennis... however just as Jim stated we'd be happy to hear some info, insight, and stories from inside Twinnings or pertaining to them and their tea. It would be very interesting. Otherwise we could just go to the blog to read up.

Thanks,

- Dominic

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Dominic T.

One of my posts was mentioned. I do not like how you wrote "from the Twinings Tea Blog," as it suggests that I am somehow writing *for* you, which I am most certainly not. If you were truly interested in sharing my post, not just driving up your site's traffic, you would have linked to the original source rather than your own site.

Brent

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Brent

Everybody has a blog but me. Hell my email address aint correct. I recently watched a CSPAN discussion by bloggers on bloggers with the required college journalistic professor. Do I have to identify myself as a blogger when I am with regular news media? Is anything 'off-the- record' if I am a citizen journalist. From what I see it is another group climbing the media food chain. Its all spin even the facts.

Jim

Dom> > Another lonesome blogger.

...I delete me...

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Space Cowboy

I came from a writing background so I have always had a web page, site, or blog in some manner since the beginnings... as for blogs I think it is just an outlet for what I'm thinking or doing for anyone interested. I think it is a bit overblown and over-valued though and will eventually die off. The whole SEO crowd really ruins it for me, and sites like Digg/Reditt/etc. who cater to it and perpetuate it. The idea is good but it all just becomes buzzwords and hot topics that appear day after day, top 10 this, top 72 that, Obama, Britney, Ron Paul, and the usual top digg/reditt stories. Journalism is suffering as a result and you can't believe or trust anything with viral ads and paid for bloggers. It's the bad side of the 'net and it just seems to keep slipping and slipping to commercialization and ads.

It's the one reason I love Usenet, and truly personal blogs.

- Dominic

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Dominic T.

These are just regular tea people - people who know about tea - like you, me, and everyone else on here. They write a few posts on their blog about their favorite topic, then publish it to their tea blog. Then, a dedicated tea website (or tea vendor) uses a blog aggregator - and picks up all these blog feeds about tea. So then that tea website has instant access to all kinds of tea-related information posted by these tea bloggers, who happen to be people in-the-know. So it's not actually a tea website or tea vendor hyping about tea - it's the aggregate tea drinkers (with a dedicated tea blog) hyping what they love - tea. And that makes it more believable. So it's a bonus for the website. It's kind of cool really - tea lovers posting about tea - and you get all the latest news aggregated in one site.

Now the interesting thing is... when you post some little-known facts about tea and someone comes along and data mines all this tea info - and you later see your info in print, published in a book - with someone else's name on it - and someone else gets the credit. Now that's the low point.

I could post a heck of a lot of info about tea - but I don't.

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niisonge

Since I noticed this thread I have been trying to get the OP to remove my blog from the Twinings blog aggregator, but so far he has fed me BS about how he can't because of the way the software is set up. Come on, seriously? He then sent me the following:

"By having an RSS feed, you should expect that your blog will be syndicated with or without permission. So long as the original source is cited and you are directed to the original source of the copyrighted material in question, you are not breaking any sorts of copyright rules by syndicating a blog. Anyways as it currently stands, copyright rules with RSS feeds is huge a grey area right now as nobody is even aware of the legal aspects and whether or not they?re enforceable. Even if the blog serves you no traffic, the link exchange is valuable in helping to increase the number of backlinks to your site, which is a very important SEO strategy."

Ugh. These people really get on my nerves. Compare this crap with a site like TeaCritic (no plug is intended, I just want to make a comparison with a good blog aggregator), which is an entirely voluntary opt-in system, vs. Twinings' which has no consideration for blog authors' wishes.

Brent

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Brent

Also, since it was brought up, I'm just a hobbyist blogger. I don't make any money (quite the opposite!) from my blog, I just work on it in the hope that it helps or entertains someone however briefly. I don't expect anyone to take it all too seriously, it's just a blog after all, but I still don't like being ripped off.

Brent

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Brent

I had a professor in college who said if I couldnt say what I meant in

25 words or less I still didnt know what the hell I was talking about. You can imagine my blog, I kinda like drinking tea. Thats about it. Editorial: I have to pay the speculators for oil but not Puer.

Jim

Dom> > Everybody has a blog but me.

...poor thing...

...blogoshear...

Reply to
Space Cowboy

Then you my friend need to sign up for a "Twitter" account ASAP. It's like a blog but short blurbs, sometimes just a word or two or maybe a sentence. I personally don't get it but all the cool kids are doin it.

I also have to say you snips on your quoted text are some of the best I've ever seen in my day. Brevity is your forte sir.

- Dominic

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Dominic T.

And, I guess, the reason you don't is you don't relish the thought of being used without permission or credit?

/Lew

Reply to
Lewis Perin

No, it's mine.[1]

/Lew

Reply to
Lewis Perin

That's right. Now I only post non-information.

Reply to
niisonge

Here's a thought: post a lot of headlines in BIG BOLD TYPE about how awful Twinings is. I predict that his software will be modified with great celerity. (And he'll probably threaten a libel suit, which threat you can also post.)

-DM

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DogMa

Heh, I had considered it, but it's not worth putting junk content on my blog. I'll just keep filling his inbox with complaints, for now.

Brent

Reply to
Brent

For the record, I did email you when we decided to aggregate your blog. In fact, you had no issues with that at the time and were in fact quite happy. I even said that we'd be using some of your content on your site from time to time. So we picked your blog post to review, because it was a great article. We even linked it back your original article. I have since removed the review of your article from the site, however I am unable to remove your blog from the aggregator. Whether or not you want to believe it is completely up to you as you have a right to an opinion. If you want to keep emailing me, that's fine. I can't however guarantee a response if you're just making the same request to which I've already addressed. End.

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Dennis Pang

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