Instapundit, little green footballs, free ipods
I’m catching on to the power and incredible wealth of information that pours forth from the blogger’s universe…and also that people are funny about blogs. I hesitate to recommend that people read this blog but put it in my signature and secretly hope like hell someone will leave me a […]
A 5000 foot deep cave in Mexico
Read a dispatch late last night about exploring. The latest issue of wired is edited by James Cameron, who is more of a scientist than a filmmaker, but he filmed one recently 2700 feet below the ocean. They focused on animals that thrive around vents that spew red hot water […]
Rick Steves: Travel can mend a fractured world.
Rick Steves is a thoughtful and well respected travel writer. In fact his book Rick Steve’s Italy, is the best selling travel book on the market. Which is funny because more travelers go to England than Italy, but it appears the prefer to read more about Italy. Just before the […]
Bloggin Questions–cleaner look vs. revenue?
Thinking about the lure of lucre vs the clean look of the blog. On our website, gonomad.com, we include many google ads, that match up with the content. this program is what has made Sergie Brin and Larry Page into billionaires, these little green ads that appear on the sides […]
Getting Rid of Traffic signs, stoplights and curbs
Read a wise article in the most recent Wired about a new trend in traffic management. A 30-year expert in traffic patterns and management, Hans Monderman, from Holland, talks about how they removed the road markings, traffic lights and some pedestrian crossings to a dangerous intersection where four roads converge….and […]
Fireside Living in Cold New England
Last night we made a fire. We used kindling we gathered out in the woods. We set a big birch log on the flames and the highly flammable white bark took off and ignited the huge piece; watching the fire made the winter chill just melt away. There is much […]
The Day Job–Selling- Is Easier than it Looks
Many of us in publishing have other jobs that help pay the bills. Mine involves a skill that I’ve acquired over many many years, the skill and nerve to sell for a living. Selling is tough, no, that isn’t really true, it’s just that for most people selling stinks. They […]
The New Travel Website Winners
this is a wise piece of info from wirednews.com ‘s rants and raves…this is a trend that could help gonomad grow much larger. Joe Buhler (jeb@buhlerworks.com) Subject: Travel Upstarts Take on Top Sites To claim that these new travel search engines represent Travel 2.0 sounds like so much hype — […]
The complexity and fascination of RSS Feeds
We are entering a new age at gonomad, we have added an RSS feed to our site so that we can offer a stream of stories piped right into a reader’s desktop “aggregator,” that means they can get all of the new stories as they are put up. Part of […]
Listening In to Talk Radio
Listening to one of my favorite talk show hosts, Howie Carr. He is a bit extremist at times and I am not in agreement with his presidential or most political views, but again and again, I have to appreciate his broad knowledge of Mass politics, the Law, recent news, and […]
GoNOMAD.com–Alternative Travel
GoNOMAD.com–Alternative Travel This is the mothership, the raison d’etre, the main event the meat in the bun. GoNOMAD brings together writers, webmasters, tour operators, lodge owners, internet experts and mostly, travelers. All share the interest in getting on with the voyage, setting sail at midnight, waiting for the limo to […]
The Top Ten destinations 2004
bootsnall.com is a very well made website full of links and good info. I am envious as they have 92,000 inbound links, which means they are doing everything right. I have often tried to reach the people who run this site but never have made contact. this snippet was picked […]
letters from readers
being a travel editor we get sent letters every day. part of the fun of my job is to answer them, and provide assistance for people’s trips. Here is a letter i got today from Candace. Dear gonomad Hi, I’m backpacking through europe next summer with acouple of friends but […]
readuponit, Max’s New Blog
hartshorne, 46, publishes new blog following the trend set by the 04 elections. promise to share interesting things i read and find out and extend to these pages the essence of my life. today had an interesting talk with a friend, neighbor and sales guy and possible candidate for sales […]