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Quote by swissmiss: things | my new favorite to-do app
John pointed me to Things a simple, intuitive task management application. I’ve used it for a few days now and give it a swissmiss thumbs up. How do you manage your to-do’s?
September 11, 2008 in resources/tools, running a studio | Permalink
swissmiss: things | my new favorite to-do app
About Swiss Miss
My name is Tina Roth Eisenberg. I am a ‘swiss designer gone NYC’. swissmiss is my visual archive of things that ‘make me look’. I am a graphic designer and run my own studio in Brooklyn.
I’m a follower of her for ages and will look into this one in order to see whether I can get more organized…Darn, but I need a MAC! I won’t buy a MAC! The few times I’ve used them I succeeded to have them hang. IMHO they are even worse than Window machines!
Blogistan @ JoeSentMe.com
Found Happy Hotelier among Joe’s Blog list. Wow!
Blogistan @ JoeSentMe.com
HOW TO USE THIS PAGE TO FIND TRAVEL BLOGS
We’ve come a long way from the Rosetta Stone to the Internet blog. Whether blogs help us decipher the intricacies of travel, however, is an open question. Blogs are the ultimate expression of free speech for everyone. But when everyone speaks, clarity is often a casualty. What we’re attempting at the JoeSentMe Blogistan page is to bring some order to the cacophony. A selection of the best-known (and, we assume, best-read) travel blogs appears in the left column. By executive fiat, we have excluded the promotional blogs penned by travel-industry corporations. We’ve also excluded destination-specific travel blogs. Many are wonderful, but it would be impossible to list even a representative sample here. What appears in the column below is our assessment of some of the best blogs and bloggers in their respective categories. It is, by definition, brutally selective and highly subjective. If we have missed a blog that you think should be listed here, drop me a line. (By the way, if you are looking for a travel columnist–you know, the folks who write on a set schedule in a more traditional format–please consult our Fellow Travelers page.) — Joe Brancatelli
Happy Hotelier Featured in Travel Weekly
In my Woopra screen I saw to my big surprise a reader being referred to this site by Travel Weekly’s Editor in Chief, Arnie Weissmann. Note you have to sign in into Travel Weekly’s site.
This is exciting, especially as I am being mentioned between the following great Travel Related Blogs:
- John Herald’s Blog, the personal Blog of the senior cruise director of Carnival.
- The Trends in Travel and Tourism, the Corporate Blog of Ferris and Partners, specialists in tourism and marketing.
- Tony Wheeler, the co founder of Lonely Planet.
- The Travolution Blog, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom: Commentary and analysis on the online travel industry. Part of the Travolution media brand in the UK. Guys I met at ITB Berlin.
- Hotel Chatter, about where to stay when you leave.
Note: On April 24, 2008, Hotel Chatter, together with its sister Blog Jaunted, was taken over from SFO*Media by Conde Net, publishers of Congierge.Com and the magazine Condé Nast Traveler (and part of the conglomerate that publishes Vogue). See for some press coverage on the acquisition Yahoo - Tracking Tourism: The Tourism Research Blog Travel industry thinking from Stephen Budd and Vicky Brock at Highland Business Research Written By Vicky Brock and Stephen Budd who I both met at ITB Berlin.
- Bill Marriott’s Blog On the Move.
- Les Explorers of Claude Benard, who I met at ITB Berlin. and
- Seth Godin Internet Guru without the need of an introduction.
This is another example of how Woopra can help you Blog. Normally Bloggers are only tempted to watch their incoming links from other Blogs and not so much from static sites.
Happy Hotelier Syndicated at Travel.Alltop
Recently I saw referrals coming in from Travel.Alltop.
According to its Blog Travel.Alltop was launched on March 28, 2008. They thanked Gary Arndt, Chris Holdren, Glenn James, Paul Sanchez, Sheila Scarborough and Jen Leo. Since I don’t happen to know these people, I more or less wonder how I got on their shortlist.
Wat is Alltop?
Alltop is a site syndicating links from “all the top†sites on the web on various subjects. They divide them in single aggregated pages on topics such as:
To name a few of my favorite subjects.
I believe they should create architecture as well
Each page has 30 plus, each with 5 posts. Some of the Travel collection (now 61) I do know well to very well, some are new to me.
Its design is really Zen like.
About Alltop
It was Launched on March 12, 2008 See: Announcement
The people behind Alltop are also behind Truemors, subtitled “Breaking Rumors”. They were inspired by Popurl when they realized Popurl were sending them a lot of traffic.
Alltop and Treumors are owned by Nononina
It is “two guys and a gal†in a garage—or more accurately, one guy in home office (Will Mayall), one gal on a kitchen table (Kathryn Henkens), and one Guy in United 2B (Guy Kawasaki). They’ve been working together since the previous century and are still friends. If you can figure out the origin of the name “Nononina,†Guy will send you a free copy of The Art of the Start.
Their Strange Banner
From their FAQ
Q. What’s with the banner near the bottom of the page? Is that a bug?
A. You fail the test. We put the banner there on purpose. We wanted to flip convention on its head by reversing the positions of the header and footer. Our (tiny) header is everyone else’s footer, and our footer is everyone else’s header. We did this to emphasize that “content is the top priority†at Alltop, not our brand identity. Also, the translucent banner contains a pun: “We’ve got [topic] covered.†Get it? Though we never planned it this way, some people also use it as a page marker to keep track of where they are on a page since the banner remains stationary and you scroll the headlines.
Why Alltop and not Netvibes?
Another funny comment in their FAQ:
Q. Couldn’t I build my own custom aggregation using a feed reader, customizable home pages, Netvibes, etc?
A. Yes, you could—knock yourself out. While you’re at it, you could backup your hard disk, bake your own bread, iron your own shirts, floss daily, tune your own car, and bike to work.
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The Connection
In digging a bit further I believe I found the connection: Trendhunter
Here is a picture of Guy Kawasaki I found on Trendhunter:
Guy Kawasaki
His Blog is titled How to Change The World. It featured Trendhunter a year ago (ha ha and he added Trendhunters’ Dutch competitor Springwise as an afterthought. I’ll explain my laugh in a separate post). And off course Trendhunter featured Alltop. An interview with him can be found here.
Let’s see how it develops.