Comments on: The Great South by Southwest Local Food Experiment.

By: Megan Mally

Megan Mally — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:56:32 +0000

Steve, that is definitely true and a great point. I guess another way to ask the question is what is a more trusted relationship - the relationship you make with your ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ on twitter or the ratings system and suggestions of anonymous people through a site you found on google. I would argue that if you develop more trusted relationships on twitter - which I think is possible by what people post and link to, getting to know them (sort of) personally and engaging in (very small) conversations with them - you have a better chance of finding a closer match to what you are looking for. They might ‘know’ you in some way that data from a search engine cannot, and suggest something they know you’d like.

THEN I might take that information they gave me, read the reviews on google and make my decision but I think what’s interesting is that twitter, which is essentially run by humans might have the potential to out do the all-mighty search engine, at least for the initial search action. I don’t think google has replaced human relationships just yet.

By: Megan Mally

Megan Mally — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:28:19 +0000

I like commenting on my own posts … this might be exactly what I was looking for:

http://feteandfeast.com/2010/03/08/blogger-guide/

Found it on from a link on twitter. twitter 3 google 0

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:33:25 +0000

I got wind of this from good old fashioned word of mouth. Great post, Meg!

By: Victorria

Victorria — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:31:50 +0000

it IS about the food!!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:29:51 +0000

How about old fashioned H2H communications? Human to Human that is. I lived in Austin for 22 years. I can give you at least 10 great local flavor restaurants that have vege burritos. I really couldn’t tell you how good the vege ones are - but the ones with meat are excellent! Check out Magnolia Cafe, Chuy’s (my personal favorite) even the flagship Whole Foods on West 6th. Of course, this probably still counts as digital communication considering I am posting a comment to a blog post.

By: steve czajkowski

steve czajkowski — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:21:40 +0000

Megan — you can’t get a real restaurant “review” on twitter. Event stuff is going to be easier to screen on Twitter, precisely because it carries so little info. Recognize the rade-off.

As matter of fact, I took the link to this piece on Facebook . I did not understand what it was on twitter.