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.

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

On Jul 3, 3:14 pm, Space Cowboy ix.netcom.com> wrote:

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.

On Jul 3, 10:48 am, Dennis Pang gmail.com> wrote:

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

On Jul 3, 2:14 pm, Space Cowboy ix.netcom.com> wrote:

You've encouraged me to open my box of Ceslestial Seasoning green tea
with lemon to see if I really want it to be there taking up space. In
the jar, it smells like lemonade, which isn't bad for July. I'll
report back. I saw at the grocery store 100 teabags for a dollar. I
don't think I'll try that. Toci

Everybody's tea blog is on there, it seems. It's Twinings Canadian
website that is using a blog aggregator to catch tea blog posts from
quite a few different sources. There are links to the original blog
and original blog posts on the site. When you click the "print" button
though, you can see the full post without going to the original blog.

If other tea-related websites want to use blog aggregators, guess you
can't blame them for that.

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

Dominic T. wrote:

...I delete me...

...I delete you...

On Jul 4, 11:58 am, Space Cowboy ix.netcom.com> wrote:

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...

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...

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.