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How to be a successful online commenter

David Whitley February 6, 2012 3

Want to break into the lucrative world of leaving comments under online articles? These ten tips should help you on the way to fame and fortune

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Is Flybe’s web booking system fair – or even legal?

David Whitley August 3, 2010 1

Budget airline add-on fees When it comes to budget airlines, Ryanair is the traditional whipping boy. People love to hate Ryanair, and automatically assume that it is the worst airline for underhand practices and

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How to make destination guides distinctive

David Whitley July 27, 2010 4

As Jeremy Head rightly points out in his new post, there is so much destination guide content festering on the internet that much of it becomes interchangeable. Why, in essence, should you go to

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Corporate blogging: Does it compromise a writer’s independence and integrity?

David Whitley June 20, 2010 15

Round the world trip As some of my regular readers may be aware, I recently spent two months travelling around Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Singapore. I was on a somewhat whistlestop round-the-world

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Postscript to bloggers vs journalists debate

David Whitley February 4, 2010 12

Corrections My previous post – Bloggers vs Journalists: Why bloggers are second class citizens – seems to have stirred up quite a debate. There are a few things that have been brought to my

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Bloggers vs Journalists: Why bloggers are second class citizens

David Whitley February 3, 2010 31

Or The Curse of the Woman Who Didn’t Know When To Shut Up.   Difference between bloggers and journalists A few weeks ago, the ever-excellent Matthew Teller hosted a debate on his blog about

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Will Amazon change how social media works in travel?

David Whitley November 17, 2009 2

Amazon innovation It’s an innovation that has, largely, slipped under the radar. But it could have a big impact on how the travel industry deals with social media. I’ve a feeling that Amazon may

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The emerging new market place for travel journalists

David Whitley November 17, 2009 5

The internet: killing travel journalism? A while back, I weighed in with my thoughts on how the internet is supposedly killing travel journalism. At the bottom, I made a small point which I didn’t

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Who will pay for travel writing? A potential compromise

David Whitley October 14, 2009 3

Blogosphere debate Jeremy Head has written a characteristically interesting post on whether travel content that has been paid for by a company can ever be objective. As part of the debate, he references Matthew

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Is the internet really killing travel journalism?

David Whitley October 2, 2009 10

Is there money in travel writing? Jeremy Head has written a fascinating piece on the new travel technology news service, Tnooz.com. He goes through the fears that many travel writers are facing about the

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