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Travelllll recently announced their intention to be Google’s bitch and nark on any travel blogger with the temerity to attempt to make a little bit of cash to keep their blogs running and, you know, eat and stuff.
Useful Resources & Articles about Travel Blogging and Social Media.
Disclaimer: The opinions in this piece are our own because no one thought we were important enough to be offered free trips or lady favours in return for our endorsement.
It has been a while since the last Blogpacker Review. Though we always intended to make this an irregular column, with no set dates and absolutely no intention of adding to the pressure of our writing schedule, the gap between #5 and #6 has been long enough that we feel the need to offer an explanation.
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Someone unfollowed us today. A fellow Twitter user took a look at our shallow ramblings and vain self promotion, thought ‘not for me thanks’ and made a quick motion with their wrist and fingers (not that one) and clicked us into oblivion.
This is not in itself unusual and my normal reaction is ‘meh’ (or ‘SCREW YOU FUCKER’, depending on whether it has been an ‘up’ day or a ‘down’ day). This time though it hurt. Not so much that we had one of those snot bubbles induced by a bout of wracking sobbing but, I won’t lie*, I did shed a single tear and sought solace in a family sized pack of Cheetos smeared in margarine.
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By the time this post goes live we will be back in the UK. There I will be able to eat lots of cheese and watch YouTube clips of my favourite comedians Bill Hicks and Eddie Izzard. Some of you won’t be familiar with Bill Hicks. He died aged 32 in 1994. I could link to him on YouTube except I am writing this in Turkey and YouTube is banned here.
A link to Wikipedia will have to suffice instead. They must not be carrying anything offensive about Ataturk or Turkishness because I can still access that website.
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I have a confession to make: I don’t get facebook. I’m sure if I said this to you at a party you would be slowly inching away from me, but then the chance that you would actually be at a party must surely be pretty remote what with all the blogging, tweeting, stumbling, facebooking and linkedining going on in your life.
Keeping up with all these social media tools is a commitment but one that doesn’t always extend to actual people as Caroline Eubanks found out. When brief but intense shared experiences faded she got dumped by her backpacking buddies on Facebook.
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Last month in the first Blogpacker Review we stated that one of the things we noticed about the travel blogging world was how friendly it is. This month we begin by getting in a circle and chanting ‘fight, fight, fight’.
Mike Barish seemingly having had enough of writing his usual fluff pieces at Gadling, squared up to Nomadic Matt, claimed it was nothing personal and aimed a dirty kick to the knads with his article On Long Term Travel Snobbery and Judgmental Blogging.
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When we first thought of starting this website our first idea was to call it The Blogpacker and focus it on ways of making money with a travel blog. The Working Traveller would come later.
There was only one teensy problem. We’d never written a blog before. Websites, yes; blogs, no. We also thought the subject would be a little too narrow and that the treadmill of writing one blog, let alone two (alongside editing a classified jobs abroad ads board and keeping a fairly large static website up to date), would be more than enough to occupy one lazy man and one woman half afraid to touch a computer.
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