This reminds me of a project I've had on the backburner for awhile and
wish to solicit advice on. When not traveling around East Asia (and
now Germany) I work as a web developer. I have long considered
putting something together for interested parties to rate and share
opinions on favorite tea sources.

I know quite a few people who follow this list maintain tea blogs, and
I wondered if there was interest in posting tea related reviews into a
central site that could be easily sortable. For instance, one could
easily look at all of the reviews for teas from Houde or Teaspring, or
see every vendor who sells Dong Ding.

Last fall I put together a more or less complete design schema, but
realized that because of the lack of standardization, it would be near
impossible to create a completely open system that also had a
qualitative element. That is, because is almost no way (that I know
of) to separate between different quality of Dahongpao teas, one's
ability to sort would suffer significantly. Most likely, the mass
producing vendors would win out over the smaller quality operations.

So I suppose I'll throw this out there: When I am not in East Asia I
buy almost all my tea online and would love to build a site that
allows interested parties to share tea tasting experiences on a
combined platform for tea blogging.

For those interested: http://corkd.com/ offers something similar for
wine lovers.

Cheers,

Joel Dietz

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