Baking & Desserts

No More TasteSpotting?

For whatever reason, the food porn site for obsessed foodies worldwide shut down their site last week due to legal complications. TasteSpotting left a huge void to fill. Bloggers were scrambling to get their fix, stats were plummeting and the online gourmet world as we knew it stopped and said a prayer for another to come to the plate.

Enter Food Gawker

A few days later, bloggers were going crazy submitting one photo after another to the new game in town - Food Gawker! I was going through withdrawal as well. I had to see what all the noise was about! YES! We have food porn again! I submitted a few blog url's and photos. Within 4 hours, I noticed my stats climbing again!

Sunday Night Dinner

Food Gawker isn't quite up to snuff yet. The home page is neat with columns of 3 photos across and 40 on a page. The main links bring the viewer directly to the featured blog, but there is no index to bring you to your own page of successful submissions. The creator of the site, Sunday Night Dinner says they're working on it. Good enough for me and about a million other crazy foodies!

They did spell out the rules rather quickly. Attribution is mandatory. Copyright violations will not be tolerated. No photo stealing. That's worth something today. Just this week, I was dealing with a potential copyright problem. It takes too much time to protect my work, but it has to be done because there are people out there that do steal content.

Anyway...millions of food porn addicts are sitting at their computers right now, staring into the screen, pressing the F5 key to refresh the page, waiting and waiting for the next food shot to come up! I'll be one of them!