Quote of the Day (9): Twitter agony of Zeldman

Twitter Agony: “STOP SENDING E-MAIL I AM ON A TRAIN” by Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Ha, would you believe such outcry would help with 11,259 Twitter Followers and getting more e-mail than Santa Claus??Similar Posts: None Found  Read More →

T+L Family 50 | 2008 | Travel + Leisure

50 of the best places to stay in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean—thanks to the thousands of Travel + Leisure readers who took our annual poll. And because these spreads are fully loaded—with golf courses and water parks, not to mention Disney character breakfasts—everyone can find their fun. T+L Family 50 | 2008 | Travel + LeisureSimilar Posts: None Found  Read More →

Quote by Blogs Influence Consumer Purchases More than Social Networks

The number of those who read blogs at least once a month has grown 300% in the past four years, and what they read strongly influences their purchase decisions, playing a key role in ushering them to the point of actual purchase, according to a BuzzLogic-sponsored study, reports Retailer Daily. jupiter-buzzlogic-half-online-population-reads-blogs-october-2008.jpg “Harnessing the Power of Blogs,” a research study of more than 2,000 online consumers in the US, was conducted by JupiterResearch, a Forrester research company. Blogs Influence Consumer Purchases More than Social Networks Similar Posts: None... Read more »

Backpackers Make Great Sperm Donors || Jaunted

Apparently since the laws changed and children conceived from donated sperm can look up Daddy once they turn 18, locals have gone off the idea. Backpackers figure they won’t be so easy to find in 18 years’ time. One third of sperm donors in Britain are now from abroad, including Australians, South Africans and Colombians. These sperm-donating travelers won’t get rich overnight but $750 for delivering 20, well, loads, is a much better deal than working late nights serving drunks at the pub. Backpackers Make Great Sperm Donors || JauntedSimilar Posts: None Found  Read More →

Storytlr: The Ultimate Mashup Tool for your (Travel) Stories?

A Dutchman and a Belgian started Storytlr The storytlr initiative Storytlr is not a startup, just a fun project that we are building during our free time. We are a two people team, based in Belgium & The Netherlands: eschnou is our PHP Wizard and alardw the CSS Ninja. A few months ago we saw this video from Loic Lemeur who was asking about a way to help him build ‘the centralized me’. We liked the idea because it sounded like reinventing the good old ‘personal page’, realizing that a blog can only capture one angle of what we did online. More over, we felt that this... Read more »

pimp my drainpipe

above: buster simpson’s downspout planter system, seattle. photos found here and here. holy shit, i love creative people. these modified downspouts can be found in seattle and were created by artist buster simpson as part of the ‘growing vine street’ project. as you can see, rainwater is redirected and used to feed greenery that’s been placed in the pipes’ u-shaped offshoots. a simple idea that manages to make something as dull as a drainpipe attractive. thankfully though, it’s not the world’s first, or best, pimped drainage system. no no no. that honour... Read more »

Travel Blog Camp 2008 (#tbc08 02): Photos

I’ve edited my photos and have them uploaded to Flickr. All in all I’m not very satisfied with the quality, but alas the light circumstances were far from ideal.. The first lesson for the next Travel Blog Camp - or should I bring more professional lighting? The first photo is of Karen Bryan’s presentation. The second photo is of Darren Cronian, who organized the event. This is Matthew Cashmore of Lonely Planet, one of few who apparently tried multitasking by both listening intensely and Twittering away at the same time. I don’t know who the lady to the left of... Read more »

World Travel Market 2008 (3): Excellent Ad for Happy Hotelier

Just arrived back home from WTM 08 and TBC 08. This is my first question: “Who is making this very good ad for my blog?” Lol Similar Posts: None Found  Read More →

Travel Blog Camp 2008 (#tbc2008 01)

Travel Blog Camp 2008 Just a short note with a few impressions: Kudos for Darren for organizing it and for the speakers to get the room a bit heated up. There really were about 80 bloggers, industry reps and pr types. Location was excellent. Roaming Tales has posted a nice summary. I had hoped that my new Blackberry was a better instrument than it turned out to be and am probably regretting I didn’t choose for an Iphone. It was frozen during most of today. Now I have learned that the Blackberry variant of cntr alt delete is: Pull out your battery. This doesn’t necessarily means a... Read more »

Twitter and Preparing for #WTM08 and #TBC08

The Airlines did it again for me. I’ll hop over to London by car tomorrow. Nothing Zen in trying to get a last minute flight at a decent rate. Travel Blog Camp 2008 I’m looking forward to meet about 80 to 100 fellow travel bloggers and industry persons at Travel Blog Camp 2008 (Registration closed) set up by Darren Cronian of Travelrants in a London Pub. The header of this post is a bit cryptic. It means that those in the know who are attending WTM 2008 will keep contact via Twitter on a self created Twitter “channel” that can be found when you do a Twitter search on... Read more »

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