"finding" news and stories

Just last week, I posted about FoodCandy, a social networking service for foodies. Today I came across DueSpaghi.it or 2Spaghi, a social network of sorts where users create profiles and post recommendations for restaurants around Italy. None of it is in English, so hopefully your Italian language skills are good. Mine aren't, and so far I've just been reading pages translated by Google. I know, not always accurate, but at least I can get a feel for the service. Users can post comments on restaurants and create a roster of their favorite places, it seems. They have a blog and a small wiki that explains the service. There are also tag clouds of popular search terms, mainly for regions and specialties. Right now, the service appears to have about 150 users.

All you Tab drinkers out there should get a kick out of a New Yorker story about the love for the pink can in the journalism world. In a recent Talk of the Town section, Ben McGrath quotes several Tab lovers, including Atlantic Monthly owner David Bradley, who describes the diet-cola-loving clique as "a lonely but inspired society." New York Times film critic David Edelstein talks about a keen ability to scan shelves of beverages and find the prized pink cylinder and former Washington Post editor Steve Isaacs even has his journalism students brainstorm story ideas based on Tab. There's also talk of the new Tab Energy drink, but, as long as regular Tab is still around, it doesn't really sound like anyone will care.