Summer is almost over here in Madrid. People are starting to get back to work and not wearing shorts anymore. Other than a zillion visitors (aka sangria and more sangria) throughout summer, I haven’t really done much other than urrr…ummm…browse the Internet. See, it is part of my job you know 🙂 Anyway, I repeatedly […]
» Read more...Month: August 2007
Lonely Planet’s Pick & Mix
Guidebooks in PDF format have been around for awhile and I’ve never found them much of use. I have a couple of guides from various publishers stuck in a folder somewhere on my computer that I never go into. But now Lonely Planet has announced that they have Pick & Mix chapters availiable for download […]
» Read more...Vagabonding Calls For Bloggers
One of my favourite websites Vagablogging is looking for a few more writers to keep it’s site ripe. Rolf is a personal inspiration of mine, and so his is blog that is now written by a handful of great people. If you are interested in writing for them send an email to rolf[at]rolfpotts.com and Henry […]
» Read more...Market Leads: World Hum, Avalon, Budget Travel
I’ve got a slew of market leads today and whoever is interested should act fast, as I get the feeling these will go quick. World Hum: World Hum has announced that they are looking for regular bloggers and contributors for their feature columns. They have also announced that they now officially begin pay at $100 […]
» Read more...Market Leads: Backpacker and Urban Daddy
Here are a couple of market leads I think a few of you might be interested in: Backpacker Magazine Looking for: Paid Map Intern for their Boulder, Colorado office Who can: Write, edit, fact-check copy, upate the website, edit maps and GPS data Qualifications: strong writing, editing, research and project management skills. Basic GPS, map […]
» Read more...Gridskipper Looking For NYC Intern…
…for some sort of research initiative. Honestly, it doesn’t matter – it’s Gridskipper and the opportunity is to jump on. All you need: – blogging experience – to live in NYC Work is only a few hours a week, and you will get some sort of payment for it. Send your details, best qualities, and […]
» Read more...Building a Travel Website
I’ve been thinking lately how I can be more web savvy and prepared for the future of travel writing, hence I’ve decided to begin devoting more time to creating my own website. There are a number of great guidebook writers that have turned to the web, and from what I can tell they are doing […]
» Read more...Write for Lonely Planet…
…on FACEBOOK. Yes, oh my goodness – everyones on it! It seems to be invading the Internet by becoming this super informative portal where you can interact with anyone and everyone you’ve wanted to. I wonder how long this fad will last. Anyway, coming to the point: I might have caught on to this LP […]
» Read more...Rolf Potts Interview: The Future of Travel Writing
Our friends at Brave New Traveler have just published an interview with Rolf Potts where, other than his thoughts on the future of travel writing, he talks about online-travel writing, the “hum of possibility”, and what he is up to these days. I could relate to Rucksack Wanderer Tim Patterson’s (the interviewer) intro very closely. […]
» Read more...Travel Writing Workshop Mexico
“Professional travelers are how most of the world learns about itself” – Paul Ross. That’s gotta be the best travel quote I have read in a while. I haven’t been to a travel-writing workshop yet (shame on me), but I would go to one just to hear more moving quotes like this that would hopefully […]
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