The food blogger 2.0 is a really rare specie. It can live in every part of the world, in every environment, not only where it can find good food.
It lives mainly for the purpose of its food blog: cooking and taking picture of food. It can have many interest, but food it’s the main objective of every action it does.
It has a “real off-line” life, but only on-line it feels safe. The “real off-line” life is mainly devoted to eating in good restaurants or cooking for the food blog. It finds some of its restaurants on TrustedPlaces and it buys its groceries and food mainly from few selected e-shops… And taking pictures of that.
It mainly reads food blogs and cook books.
It loves movies related to cooking and food, but it can appreciate even other kind of movies.
It’s not aware of the rest of the blogosphere, as much as the rest of the blogosphere is not aware of the food blogger 2.0 (or food blogging in general).
It’s difficult to spot it and it’s almost impossible to take pictures of it (a rare example is published with this post, only thanks to the sympathy of a nice guy who spot it).
You can find it on facebook, probably in the group with less people of the entire social network (why don’t you come and join us??? )
It’s on Linkedin too…
On twitter it speaks about food is baking/cooking…
It’s on Pownce too, but without understanding why: a geek friend says is the next step of social networking, and the food blogger 2.0 always listen to its geek friends…
It has more than one blog related to food (and it’s doing it as a job!), and for sure it has a tumblr…
It tries to support and animate a food community…
It has a flickr account (and it uses Flickr uploadr) with which it participates to some groups and it creates other groups…
It’s a frequent commenter on Serious Eats…
It’s adding all the cookbooks to Anobii… And it created the Cookbook group (only three people at the momet: come! Come!)
It’s part of some recipes communities… If it’s based in Italy, is even part of Italian food social networks…
Every time it uploads a new recipe it posts it (immediately) on Taste Spotting too…
It’s desperately wishing for Aperture to implement its food pictures…
It’s part of the Daring Bakers Team and it’s not allowed to link it to the outer world (We rock!)…
It participates to all the web food events it can…
Update: it got its business card and stickers from Moo.com

If you spot one, please contact the Food Bloggers Anonymous on FaceBook: you could save it from extinction… We need food blogger 2.0 in this world!

What could make you the best food photographer in the world isn’t only a good camera, good lenses or style…
No, no, my dearest! The best kept secret in food photography is a more than 300€ tool called Aperture: I’m trying the 30 days free trial and it already changed my life after one hour… And for some option you don’t even need to shoot in raw: it works even on jpgs!!!

You don’t believe me?
Compare this picture to the one I’ve published last week! It’s the same picture: I swear!

I really love my country! And my compatriots (well, not everybody, but you know…). As I had many experiences outside Italy I can really see all the pro and co of my wonderful country…
But today I’m pissed, and I decide to say it in a public display!
My dsl line is supplied by Wind Infostrada. I have since January 2006 and until today I was without a connection for at least 10 days overall… Now you think: that’s not so much of a deal… Sure, it’s not so much of a deal if you use your dsl to play: I use it to work, so even 1 hour is a problem.
Today I lost connection for the second time in ten days. I called the help desk and they told me: “I did some tests and you should have everything back is something like two hours”. “Should”??? “Something like”??? “Two hours”????
When I told him that I needed a more specific estimate of time the men answered me “What are you complaining about? It’s only half an hour that you are not connected”. Now visualize my face red! And try to keep calm I told him that I already had problem one week ago, that it happened to many times and then he hanged the phone.
Now, how can I complain about this lousy, rude and impolite little piece of @#§!!! if I don’t have his name, a code or something to recognize him???
I cannot.
And that’s Italy: a lousy service (they say it’s 4 mgb, but most of the time is not even half…), for a price much higher then in the rest of Europe, with rude people at the other end of the phone…
But as that’s Italy, I continue to pay…