Happy Hotelier

I have uploaded my photos of the opening to Happy Hotelier’s Flickr Account. Some final observations:
The name
Correctly spelled the name is CitizenM and not Citizen M. I cannot change this in my prior posts because of the archiving system I am using here.
The Launch Party
After the Press conference there was the official opening. Rattan […]

Hotel Front Desk Blog’s post Hotel Bloggers Linky (Not Kinky) Love inspired me to this post. He lists a couple of Hotel Insider Blogs, because:
Unlike most other industries, there’s not a lot of hotel related blogs penned by employees & insiders actually working in the hospitality industry - most seem to be just another marketing […]

Wat’s new to Daamsie, is new to me as well: The Travel Subgroup at Reddit

After three conferences with dedicated sites, the initiators of Tips from the T-List decided to start a more permanent site.
The site and its lay out need urgent attention imo!

My main complaint is that the RSS feeds don’t work as they should: During a certain period of time they produced duplicate content. That has been taken […]

I have to get this post off my chest, be it for mere reference for myself, but also as preparation for the tagging of the many photos I took and uploaded already.
Here are the travel bloggers that were listed for the Berlin ITB Bloggers summit:

Ram Badrinathan • PHOCUSWRIGHT • (India)
Ram commented that only recently he […]

It was Lorella Van Fossen (from her name I guess she has Dutch ancestry), avid WordPress advocate, who drew my attention to Woopra with her post Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program, starting as follows:
I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at Dallas WordCamp, John Pozadzides (of One Man’s Blog, who works […]

In an initiative to unite the power of bloggers around the world BlogCatalog has launched BlogCatalog - Blogging For Hope, an initiative to pay attention to human rights worldwide.
I second the initiative and would like to address three items myself:

I would like all Authorities to reconsider their post 9/11 madness with fingerprinting everyone and everybody […]

Travel Blog author Darren Cronian has won the Travolution Award for best consumer travel blog with his Blog Travel Rants.
He was chosen from the following shortlist:

Travel Rants (Darren Cronian)
TravelMail Blog (various authors)
Viator Blog (various authors)
Select World Travel (Lee Harrison)

I believe winning from these great blogs will add extra to this award for Darren.
The Laudatio says:
“Darren […]

The opening Screen

Some time ago I came across Piclens from the company Cool Iris via a recommendation from Internet Guru Doc Searls. Doc has no search function on his Blog. A severe neglect! At first I couldn’t find his post back.
As an aside: He also recommended Flickrfan in a post Less T, More V […]

This is a re edited post originally dating back a year. (Yes I am trying to getting organized).
Some time ago I was inclined to kick my MyBlogLog widget from this Blog, because its server didn’t respond quick enough and caused hung pages on this Blog and several other Blogs.
My first introduction to Bloglog was by […]

Getting organized is high on my wish list. Sometimes I see ideas from the corner of my eyes: I found some ideas, but are curious whether my readers have thoughts on the following gadgets:

BackPack It or
Samurize It or
Springnote it?

Any thoughts?

A couple of recent articles drew my attention:

Death By Blogging, NY Times;
10 signs that you’re addicted to Twitter, Andre Philippe;
For bloggers, a digital sweatshop called ‘home’, International Herald Tribune;
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, NY Times;
Killed By Blogging, Burst Blog
Becker Posner about compensation under competition
Not Productive Enough? Turn Off The […]

Thank You, Claude

After my previous post there was some more discussion on Twittter and in the meantime an unrelated Twitterer, The Carol of the Chines language Blog 太妃糖憂鬱狂歡節│Carol's Carnival mentioned the the possibility of Group Twittering via Group Tweet. That ticked us off.
In the meantime Elliot NG of the Uptake blog posted about the Travel […]

Until they launched their Ginger version I wasn’t much impressed by Netvibes. I like their new Ginger public page idea and the possibility to group feeds on one page. A bit unfortunate is that I see no possibility to make screen shots of public pages on Netvibes.
Following a Twitter conversation with Elliot NG of Uptake, […]

As a matter of fact I was experimenting with Netvibes and its Ginger version already. Just before noting Travel.Alltop I had made a public page on Netvibes by the name of Happy Hotelier’s Travel Readings, which was inspired by the way Edu Williams had formed his public Turismo (En) page.
Look for yourself if this is […]