A personally created gif from the NCIS episode Shiva

A personally created gif of Sloan Sabbith from The Newsroom, episode Election Night Part 1.

One of the biggest examples of User Generated Content from the past few years is the Share A Coke campaign from Coca Cola. The campaign originated in Australia in 2011 but quickly became a global campaign. It was in 2014 that the campaign took off in the United States. This campaign has been off and on ever since, with various iterations taking place, the most recent of which taking place in the US over the holidays with a dedication to the front-line workers.

You can’t just make wine and slap a label on it. While you may buy wine based on what the label looks like (we’ve all been there), there’s more to the label than you may realize. Every wine region has to follow a certain set of laws and regulations that dictates the wine making and labeling in their region. The same can be said for liquor stores and wine shops. If it’s not regulated, it can’t be sold. It’s easy to go to a wine shop and find a bottle of cabernet sauvignon, but the process is more

Would you spend years studying for a test if you knew there was only a pass rate of less than 10%? The Master Sommelier examination is viewed as the toughest test in the world – only 236 people have passed. Many people on the outside wonder, “what’s the point? Why is it worth it?” But for those who are looking to become a Master Somm, they are in it for the long haul.

How would you feel if you purchased a fake bottle of wine for thousands of dollars from a man that you considered a friend? That’s the question many in the wine industry found themselves asking after Rudy Kurniawan came into their lives. When Rudy first came into the wine scene, he was a friend to many, and well respected. That reputation took a turn, however, when his empire of fake wine started to crumble. Rudy was arrested in 2012 for his years long wine fraud...

Italy: home to gelato, Maserati, and 20 regions that produce wine. With over 370 wine grapes indigenous to Italy and over 1.5 million acres of vineyards, there is no shortage of wine or its history. The history of winemaking in Italy goes back thousands of years. While producing wine there is a lifestyle, it wasn’t Italians who originally started the winemaking process in Italy.

Since its introduction to the technology world, microblogging has become a social networking tool used by millions all over the globe. Microblogging is a subset of blogging that allows users to post small messages via different forms of media- text, photo, and video. This is how it differs from blogging- the size of the post is much smaller than one would make if they were making a normal blog post. It is a quick and easy way for the user to get their message out to hundreds of people, and it usually does not take more than a minute to put up and it does not take more than a minute to read.