Archive for November, 2011

Thoughts on Online Community

This is webby meta stuff. If you’re not interested in that, why not read Eva Holland’s new piece on Vela Mag instead. It’s a great read.

“Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx

There was a bit of a flap amongst some travel bloggers last week. The issue? A post by John O’Nolan at a site called Travelllll.  (I’ll call the site T5 going forward, I can’t bear typing that name over and over.) O’Nolan blasted bloggers who are selling links, telling them “If you sell paid links, you are less than worthless as a travel blogger, and you should be ashamed of yourself.”  The post also threatened to expose link selling bloggers to T5′s readership.… continued…

How to be a Successful Travelblogger

<rant>

  1. Don’t Publish Crap.
  2. Love Your Readers.

</rant>continued…