The Kindle Fire Looks Amazing – But Here’s Why You Still Need Your Old Kindle

by Mike Sowden RSS 5 Comments
Kindle Family 4

Amazon’s new tablet has just been unveiled, and it’s snazzy and cheap enough to make Apple sweat. But what about all you devoted Kindle 3 users out there – time to upgrade?

At last, Kindle has gone full-colour in the shape of a 0.9lb, Android-running tablet called the Fire (seen in action here). Want to see how it stacks up against its rivals? Gizmodo has a useful one-pager. The rumour is that the Fire Continue Reading

Interview: Global Bloggers Network – More Than Just A Rescue Service

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Keith Jenkins & Janice Waugh

Global Bloggers Network has become a well-established group on Facebook since it was set up by travel bloggers Janice Waugh (@solotraveler) and Keith Jenkins (@velvetescape). It currently has 444 active members. Janice & Keith have been telling us about it.

1) How did the idea of creating a Global Bloggers Network come about?

Janice: It happened in London, November of 2009. After having Skyped for about 6 months, mentoring each other with our blogs, we finally met. Face to Continue Reading

Good Travel Blogging: Seven Ways To Ruin Your Writing

by Mike Sowden RSS 30 Comments
Young Man Working on Laptop on Beach

Yesterday, Abigail King listed her 7 suggestions to spice up your travel writing. Today, we get critical.

There’s a lot of bad, bad writing out there. (I know this, because I’ve written some of it). And so much of it is avoidable. It really, truly doesn’t need to be that bad – but again and again, the same mistakes, the same unthinking, uncritical  incompetence. (Yes, I’m still talking about my own writing – well spotted).

We can do Continue Reading