The Travel PR Blog

If you thought public relations professionals got a poor press with the Bad Pitch blog, take a look at its close cousin the Bad Hack blog which offers a platform for PR’s to spill the beans about badly behaved journalists.

It’s very new but I seriously doubt that the writers will run short of material.

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Steve Rubel just pointed to a new video-sharing site called Revver. It’s like YouTube but with advertising.

Upload a video, Revver adds a commercial at the end and if viewers click on the message you share the revenue.

It’s fun but they really need to make their copyright regulations tighter to avoid legal trouble.

Here’s a snippet [...]

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Robert Scoble posted an update from his trip to Keystone Resort in Colorado today. I was interested as we had a bit of conversation in an earlier post about how he would approach travel freebies when offered.

In the end, it reads as if the company was after cut-price blog consultancy from Robert Scoble and co. [...]

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I finally got round to adding the Cocomment box to the sidebar of this blog. Look, there it is, over on the right - or possibly on the left hand side if I have redesigned (again!) in the last five minutes.
Cocomment is a great service which helps you keep track of your own comments [...]

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Passenger Focus, the UK’s rail watchdog, is offering passengers the chance to commute free for a year if they keep a blog of their usual schlep to work.
 Just tell us in 20 words or less why you should be a Passenger Focus blogger, the national rail stations you commute to and from and you will [...]

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Would you write a glowing review of your next hotel in exchange for a discount? Or how about an ocean view?
The New York Times has an article about the tactics used by some hotels in exchange for a positive mention on the online review sites.
A hotel in Key West, Fla., recently offered its guests a [...]

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The Scotsman has a piece about  Chris Idzikowski (good Scottish name), director of Edinburgh Sleep Centre, who has been researching jet lag for British Airways.
The answer lies in seeking out daylight at precisely the right time and shunning it like Dracula for hours either side.
Dr Idzikowski said that traditional wisdom for jet lag - to [...]

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Thanks to Constantin Basturea for sending me this from the IAOC Blog.
Don Dunnington reports than the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has invited bloggers to their press conference and networking cocktail reception next week in New York.
Ministers and Directors of Tourism from the Caribbean will be addressing “What’s New and Hot in the Caribbean.”  Each [...]

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