I have been promoting the benefits of the good ship Blogging to travel companies for long enough now to anticipate the various obstacles which will sink the project before we even cast off from the dock.
The biggest objection is often time: staff don’t have time to blog, they don’t have time to gather the raw [...]
Entries from February 2008
The Travel Blog: wrapped up and ready to go
February 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Tags: Travel PR
Forget the trouser press, I want an iMac in my room
February 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Hotel chain City Inn has decided to put a brand new iMac in every room in its London and Manchester hotels. [From UK hotel chain adds iMacs to the list of in-room amenities]
Tags: Hotel PR
Amazon S3 leaves web services up a creek w/o paddle
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Just as I had decided to move all of my multimedia hosting to Amazon’s S3 service, we discover it is vulnerable after all.
Seems S3 has been out for several hours leaving a whole load of sites crippled and webmasters kicking the ground in frustration.
If you are one, join the crowd.
Tags: Asides
Feeding frenzy in the Guardian Travel section.
February 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments
I am beginning to re-think trying to get my son commissioned to blog his half-term holidays for the Sunday Times next week. As if…
The thing about this storm in the Guardian - 473 comments so far - is that a whole generation of travel writers’ kids have featured in holiday stories in the national press [...]
Tags: Travel PR
Starbucks to offer limited free wireless Internet (in the US)
February 11th, 2008 · No Comments
They are throwing the ballast out of a rapidly descending balloon. And about time too.
Anybody know if/when this is coming over here?
Starbucks is teaming up with AT&T to give Starbucks Card holders two hours of free wireless access per day beginning this spring. After that, it will cost $3.99 for a two-hour session. (Most Caribou [...]
Tags: Asides