Past Articles

Looking for History is a new book that came to me from old friend and super-reader Kent St. John. It is subtitled “dispatches from Latin America’ and written by Alma Guillermoprieto. The first chapter is about Eva Duarte, who became the Evita we have all heard about from the Madonna […]

Television often lives up to its billing, surprising as that is to say. Last night’s viewing included several well done reality shows. First up was “boss swap,” where two car dealers exchanged sales managers. The first dealership was, improbably, run entirely by women. The second shop specialized in exotic cars, […]

I was walking down 50th St. and smelled the sweet, unmistakable smell of burning reefer. Then I saw these two gents passing a big doobie back and forth here at their construction site. 

New York City last Friday, where Kent St. John was trying to get a visa for his trip to Brazil for GoNOMAD. He was unsuccessful, stood in line for an hour and was the last to be told he had missed the day’s quota. This whole hassle is Brazil’s response […]

Kent St. John, our Senior Travel Editor at GoNOMAD.com, has jumped on the blogging train full tilt. His new blog will be called Be Our Guest, and provide readers with details, photos and other tidbits about his travels and about the life of a travel editor. His next few months […]

Kirstie Alley has the last laugh and deserves it. The former Cheers siren, who is famous for National Enquirer photos and her weight, landed a new TV series on Showtime that focuses on the subject of weight. She refuses to run away from herself and has written a new series […]

We met Jen Leo today at the NY Times Travel show. IT was great to put a person with a name, we’ve been in touch for a while about the interview we ran with Jen and about her wonderful writtenroad.com blog. Jen is going to be a poker player this […]

We took in the New York Times Travel show today at the Javits Center. A little more subdued than the show where we exhibit, that is sponsored by the NY Post. But we met some interesting people, including a bus/dev lass from igougo.com, a great site that is very deep […]

We had a visit from Jaclyn Stevenson, a Senior Writer for BusinessWest magazine. She had been planning a story about GoNOMAD.com for a while and a recent decision to turn this venerable monthly into a bi-weekly sped up the deadline. She came to the office and sat for an interview […]

It is rare to meet a person who really listens. Truly sits down, faces you, and pulls out what it is on your mind. Even when you take a detour and change the subject, they steer the conversation back to you. WOW! that feels as good as the blazing fire […]

A guy I used to work with at the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Cosmo Macero, has become a columnist for the Boston Herald. Here that paper’s top boss talks about the competition. from Boston magazine:Ken Chandler, the Herald’s top editor, says: “The Globe isn’t the first paper I read. And I […]

Last Minute Good News The PA governor’s office said that Verizon and Philadelphia have reached a deal permitting the citywide project–which is intended to turn 135 square miles of downtown into one huge 802.11b hot spot–to proceed. Wired had reported that Ed Rendell was in the pocket of the telcoms, […]

From the arcane, precise, and utterly fascinating world of SEO, or search engine optimization, comes this bit of wisdom, published on webproworld.com. At a recent SEO symposium, Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro showed a Google search results page with an “eye tracking map” that looked similar to a thermal imagery chart […]

Katherine Tanney once again made the NY Times Sunday magazine with a thoughtful and eloquent essay about the end of her parent’s lives. It was bittersweet and all too typical. Her father, who had always been the reliable post,turns into a needy alzheimer patient and the mother just can’t cope. […]

More and more coverage is coming up in newspapers about GoNOMAD.com “Take offs and Landings” section of the Wall Street Journal. We passed along ideas for what’s hot in travel lately. Greenfield Recorder, local paper here about 14,000 circulation, did an interview and is doing a feature story soon. Coming […]

Songs like this one by Frank Sinatra really move me. Read these lyrics and see if you too don’t get weepy and appreciate the genteel charm of this song by The Chairman of the Board Some day, when I’m awfully low, When the world is cold, I will feel a […]

Lawrence Lessig presented an interesting argument in this month’s Wired that Verizon is working against the public with a recent decision in Philadelphia. Governor Ed Rendell signed into law a bill prohibiting the government from offering free Wi-Fi in their municipalities. In Philly, more than half of neighborhoods have no […]

Andy Kessler wrote recently in Wired about whether we really need the US Postal service. What would happen, he asked, if this 180-year-old dinosaur disappeared tomorrow? Plenty of good things. The mailing of bills is this giant’s Achille’s heel. Because paying bills on line makes so much more sense–it costs […]