I went there for Mother’s Day and the bathrooms were repulsive. I’d not seen this tidbit anywhere. Not only did the cold water not work, but the hot water was burning customer hands and the toilets were stained with urine and the hallway leading to the bathrooms smelled strongly of old urine. Researching this restaurant online never would have revealed this – only someone who’d been there would really know.

Further, I write about IT, fashion, running (and I’m not runner)and more effectively … and I love it.

And, additionally, I think it’s unethical to pose as an expert for these blogs unless you are one. To write an article for a mag is one thing. . . but to pose as an expert for weeks and months on blogs, that’s not ethical in my opinion.

Wendy

In this example, if you took on the food blogging job for the Toronto market, you’d spend five times as long trying to get information on such-and-such a restaurant during a food festival as someone who could just walk down the street and go try out the food.

That would cut your profit margin way down.

Just because you can get a job doesn’t mean it’s always worth it.

I’m glad to see this topic discussed. Just because we can write — doesn’t mean we’re experts on a topic.

And not every topic can be “researched” into an article.

I learned that the hard way when I wrote a piece for Running Times. I’m SO not a runner and those athletes definitely have a culture all their own. The research I did barely got me up to speed and I learned to stick with topics that I know well — or are just somewhat out of my comfort zone.

Wendy

I write a food blog and I live in northern California. There is no way I could attempt to write about Southern cuisine as that would be like a techie geek writing about fashion ha!

I think the email you’re referring to is Shylah’s, the person requesting these four bloggers.

Also, I understand them wanting to have people local to a certain area. I guess I was commenting in general that I don’t see, in this day and age with the Internet, why there aren’t more telecommuting positions or that as an option more.