Well, That’s That, Then.

Sunday morning I submitted my resignation letter to BlogHer. I’ve been with the site from very early on. I watched it go from a handful of unpaid enthusiasts to a sprawling sponsored network with big bucks and dozens of paid contributors. BlogHer pays better than any other network I’ve worked with — that went a …


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Big Fat Video Camera Giveaway

Comments are closed on this post. Winner TBD next week. Thanks! “Oh my god, you guys are OLD! You HAVE to do video!” That’s a video blogger I’ve found myself in the company of at a meetup or two and were he not packaged as what otherwise seems like a nice guy, this sentence would …


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29 Guests Wrap Up

First things first. THANK YOU for all the great submissions and participating in 29 Guests! It was great to have the month off, but also, it was great to see so many voices from so many places all here on my little blog. Wow. That was an awesome potluck. I hope you enjoyed it as …


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April is Guest Post Month

29 guests are invited to my house. Bring something to share. Seriously. Just show up in my in-box, there’s nothing else to do. I’m trying an experiment. I’d like to see if I can get 29 posts, one every day for the month of April. 29 posts, one every day, written by you. Why 29? …


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Tell Me a Story @ TBEX 2010

TBEX is the Travelblog Exchange, a conference for travelbloggers. It’s in year two and this year, I’m co-hosting the community keynote with Mike Barish. 1. At a guest house in the Austrian Alps, I met an old farmer who sat out WWII because he was captured by American soldiers his first day in uniform. He …


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Hospitality and Outer Space

The long drive in bad visibility gave me a terrible headache, by the time we reached our destination, I had a full blown migraine. I went straight to bed with a cup of tea for dinner, only, and waited for it to pass. Pass it did and about three hours later it had subsided to …


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