With everything shiny and new around here, I thought it a good time to invite you over. Bring something to share. Seriously. Just show up in my in-box, there’s nothing else to do. I’m throwing the doors open for guest posts for the month of January.
A few guidelines for my sanity.
- Word count: 1200 words maximum. Count your words.
- Travel stories only: No product/service/website pitches. No travel tips. No “how to be a better blogger” tips.
Whoa, did that happen? That was freaking amazing! Seriously, who gets to have a month like that, not to mention a whole YEAR? I didn’t earn a lot of money, but wow, I am dizzy with the wonder of what I did do.
January: We did our annual winter skitter up to Vancouver. It seems the husband and I do this every winter and we always enjoy it. Also, I got my first totally vitriolic hater comments for this post in which I asked some questions about digital rights. Some people really hate it when you ask questions.… continued…
This is totally inside baseball kind of stuff. Don’t want to read a post about criticism? Here’s a slideshow from Alaska instead. It’s pretty.
I made Some Random Dude mad at me last week. I posted a picture of what I thought was a travesty of an opening line from a travel piece in the Register-Guard, a paper out of Eugene, Oregon. The photo included the writer’s byline and the name of the paper.
Said line?… continued…
From time to time I get bogged down, lost in the weeds, wrapped up in all the sausage making and inside baseball stuff behind blogging. I’m genuinely interested in how this stuff goes down, after all, I owe a great deal to blogging. I write occasional commentary, meta crap that comes under the heading of “blogging about blogging.” It’s not particularly compelling to a good percentage of my readers, though I thank you all for indulging me the behind the scenes tours from time to time.… continued…
I believe *I* have the super awesome prize for this year’s Passports with Purpose hosted right here on Nerd’s Eye View. It’s a $1000 voucher good for any HomeAway stay — HomeAway being not just that vacation rental company, but also, a sponsor of PwP several years in a row. Because I’m a PwP founder, I don’t get to participate, and let me tell you, that gets in my gut, it does, because I have no shot at the whole “Ten bucks, do good, fabulous prize” thing.… continued…
