Market Leads, Resources for Writers, Something Different 1 comment on Job Lead: New travel website Trazzler.com

Job Lead: New travel website Trazzler.com

Trazzler is a Tumblr-style new travel website that helps you decide where to go. It’s a new concept that gives you personalised, hand-picked travel options after analysing your travel history and even your personality traits. I recently wrote an intro on the site on Gadling, which you can read here. As posted on Media Bistro, […]

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User-Generated Travel Book To Be Compiled On Facebook

Here’s travel-writing Web 2.0 taken to a new level: In conjunction with a company called iGo iWrite, if you are on Facebook (get an account immediatley if not!), you can now be part of an interactive travel community where you can submit stories, get feedback, and ultimately be published. Whether you are a professional or […]

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Cool Things, Publishers, Resources for Writers, Something Different 2 comments on Fall 2008: Be A National Geographic Correspondent

Fall 2008: Be A National Geographic Correspondent

“Glimpse” — National Geographic‘s new print and online platform (urr…magazine?) is looking for people aged between 18-30 who plan to spend at least 10-weeks studying abroad from August 15-December 30, to report on their experiences. Each correspondent will receive a $600 stipend and be assigned a professional editor to help them produce high quality, multimedia […]

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Resources for Writers, Something Different 1 comment on Live Blogging Session: What Do Readers Want From A Travel Blog?

Live Blogging Session: What Do Readers Want From A Travel Blog?

An eternal question for those getting into travel-blogging. Folks over at Europe A La Carte blog will have a live-blogging session on this topic. A group of travel-bloggers (list not yet disclosed) will talk about their blogs and there will be an open forum for you to interact with them — questions, comments, what you […]

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A Writer's Life, Authors, Something Different 0 comments on What Travel-Writer Personality Are You?

What Travel-Writer Personality Are You?

For those of you who haven’t seen this already, Rucksack Wanderer Tim Patterson over at Brave New Traveler has come up with 6 most original travel-writer personalities: -The Intrepid Monk -The Epic Adventurer -The Naked Introvert -The Walking Party -The Public Relations Professional -The Guidebook Writer Read and and have a giggle over the descriptions, […]

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Events, Resources for Writers, Something Different, Travels in Europe 0 comments on The Beginning Of Travel-Publishing?

The Beginning Of Travel-Publishing?

Ever wondered when the travel-publishing industry began, in what form, by whom, how, and with what intention? Honestly, I never did until I came across this piece on an exhibition that is displaying a set of Europe’s first printed travel images and maps from the Middle Ages and Renaissance period. In those days, traveling to […]

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World Nomads/Lonely Planet Travel Film Scholarship

World Nomads and Lonely Planet have announced a Video Documentary Scholarship, the next in the series of World Nomads Travel Scholarships, and is calling for applications. The winner will travel to the Kiwanje Ndege Primary School, in the Laikipia region of Kenya as part of a World Expeditions community project travel trek and will be […]

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