Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
I have been doing a spot of digital housekeeping to ring in the new year. I used TwitCleaner to clear out some of the junk that has ended up in my Twitter stream. I’ve locked down the privacy settings for my new Facebook Timeline on my personal account (I invite blog fans to ‘like’ my Facebook [...]
Travel blogs have made a fantastic showing in the finals of this year’s 2010 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. Food blogs have been popular in the Bloggies for some time and remain so, but the profile of travel blogging has really leapt ahead in the last couple of years. The Bloggies is one [...]
Travel blogging comes of age – the Bloggies are the icing on an incredible year. What a difference a year makes! This time last year I was bemoaning the fact that there were no travel blogs in the finals of the 2008 Bloggies compared with 11 food blogs. I suggested that travel bloggers needed to [...]
Congratulations to all the food blogs nominated for the 2009 Bloggies and particularly the winners. Drum roll… Chocolate and Zucchini won Best European Weblog. Everybody Likes Sandwiches won Best Canadian Weblog. Cake Wrecks won Best Food Weblog, Best Writing of a Weblog and Best New Weblog. Wow, what a haul! Foodie at Fifteen won Best [...]
An update on travel blog awards, following from this post. This news just in. Mark Ashley from Upgrade Travel has contacted me to inform me that the Travvies will indeed run this year. Apparently there was a problem last year and the nominations were collected but something went badly wrong at that point. He plans [...]
Round-up of current awards for food bloggers. 2008 Food Blog Awards Today is the last day to nominate your favourite food blogs for the 2008 Food Blog Awards at Well Fed Network. You have until 11.59pm US East Coast time. This is not a plug. Most of the categories stipulate that you need at least [...]
It’s award season … I won’t be going home with an Oscar but there are still prestigious honours to be won. 2009 Bloggies Hurrah! Nominations are open for the 2009 Bloggies and this year they have introduced an award for best travel blog. This is great news! Last year I bemoaned the fact that not [...]
I promised yesterday to point my readers in the direction of some good travel blogs. A good place to start is with the 2007 Travvies. Upgrade Travel Better, about getting more bang for your buck. The organiser of the Travvies. Exposed Planet, which has stunningly beautiful photographs and is the deserving winner of the best [...]
Did you vote in the 2008 Bloggies? Voting has now closed and the winners will be announced on 10 March. The Bloggies have been going for eight years now and they are very prestigious. Winning a Bloggie is not only a great honour, it would undoubtedly would bring a big boost in audience for any [...]
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