The Travel PR Blog

This is great. It only took me two minutes to create the ugliest page on the planet, courtesy of Google’s new themes for personalised home pages. I can only hope there are a few more, better looking, designs on the way. Or that enterprising designers will manage to cook up some alternatives using Greasemonkey or [...]

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I am intrigued by VoiceThread, a new site (in beta, naturally) which lets you post images as a flash slide show, with or without commentary and then encourages people to leave audio feedback. Admittedly, the results can be numbingly dreary. But I imagine they could also be a fun. Take the case of a group [...]

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While talking to financial advisers recently, I pointed out their website did not offer an option to change the font size. Given there’s a clear connection to be made between baby boomers, lots of money, nest eggs and failing eyesight, there seemed a reasonable case to be made for giving their aged clientele a better [...]

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Li Evans at Search Marketing Gurus describes her conversion from Bloglines to Google Reader. My hint for anyone making the same journey is just to hit ? on their keyboard for the smartest round-up of shortcuts you could ever hope to see. Very clever.

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Ever since I discovered that hotels can add TripAdvisor reviews into their own websites (if they are feeling brave enough) I have wondered what the result looks like. So far I haven’t found an example.
Instead I decided to pick a hotel at random and generate the html to post here.
Maybe it will break the page, [...]

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MySpace may have the numbers but these days it’s about as cool as your granny’s slippers. I expect all the cool kids are about to switch on to Virb, a social networking site from Unborn Media which just cracked open its doors. I keep reading it is in invitation-only beta, but I walked right in [...]

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On the subject of reporters in the blogosphere. Journalism.co.uk has just put together a Best of Journalism Blogs section using Yahoo! Pipes. They have only added nineteen blogs so far, which doesn’t seem very many. Perhaps the rest were too scatalogical, scurrilous or little more than drinking diaries of press trips in Sardinia. However [...]

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Want to know what a typical Ryanair press itinerary looks like? Juzzy - a journalist who writes the entertaining JD’s World blog - has reproduced a recent invitation to Sardinia in full.
Alghero is one of those places that the Italians have been happy to keep to themselves. Tucked away on the north-western coast, [...]

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What is the approved past tense of Digg, as in "I clicked the Digg this link"? Is it it dugg or digg’d? I like diggered.Anyway, thanks to Search Marketing Gurus, we now have a simple-to-follow, beginners guide to social media sites, including Digg. Wizened veterans of the blogosphere might roll their eyes at the [...]

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I spent a happy few minutes truffling around in the source code of the new 71 miles site, mumbling to myself things like: “look, it uses WordPress and Brightcove videos and Kayak affiliate links.” What an idiot I am. It’s all laid out in the About section.
The nuts and bolts of our site start [...]

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I love the new BNet.com site. Alexis Gallisa gives some incite into how it was put together via his blog. Have a look.
It was while I was browsing the BNet.com blogs that I came across KnockKnock and their quirky office supplies. For the longest time I have realised that I am swimming against the tide [...]

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