Spicesoflife.com — Nina Simonds Videoblog goes live

It began as a project for radio but, like the Apple computer, which Steve Wozniak memorably called "a science project that got out of control" (or something similar, the wording may not be exactly right — the Woz has weighed in before here to correct me so perhaps he'll descend from Olympus once more to touch me with his fairy dust — but I digress) morphed into something entirely different — and unexpected.

Yesterday's Washington Post reported, "What began as a radio project has turned into a video-blogging platform for cookbook author Nina Simonds. She plans to report from restaurants, interview chefs and cover food, health and lifestyle as an integrated force. The first episodes launched this month. 'It's sort of refreshing to do this every day and not have to write it all down,' Simonds told us by phone last week from her home in Salem, Mass. Her knowledge of Asian cuisine and special interest in healthful eating enrich the footage, which is shot with a Nokia telephone."

Hey — I've got a Nokia telephone: maybe I should try this.

Nah — I can barely make a phone call with it: trying to make a movie and then transferring it to bookofjoe is way, Way, WAY above my TechnoDolt™ pay grade.

But a man can dream....

On another note, Ms. Simonds' website should become instantly profitable if whoever's running it knows how to use it as an advertising platform.

She has huge street cred which, in this day and age, conquers all.

Apologies to Chaucer.