Yearly Archives: 2010

The results of two interviews for Frommer’s in the past two weeks are up at AOL Travel (about our photo contest winners) and TODAY Travel (about trips inspired by literature).

My wife’s YA book Plus has an official blog (http://beewilsonplus.posterous.com/) on Posterous. And you don’t even have to be a teen girl to enjoy it.

I’ve never been a big fan of HuffPo. Not because they rarely pay contributors (if someone wants to give you something for free I see no reason why you shouldn’t take it), but because they steal content and run press releases. That’s lazy, cheap, and unethical.

Today’s story on pasties for travelers is a great example. They received a press release about a new product, wrote a couple of sentences, and then printed the release verbatim. Then they followed the cut-and-paste job by lifting a list related to the story that Jaunted.com compiled. They included a link to the Jaunted story, but there’s no need to click it since you can read the stolen words on HuffPo. Classy. 

Intro sentences
Original? Likely
Number of Words: 50

Press release
Original? No
Number of Words: 111

List of airports copied and pasted from Jaunted.com
Original? No
Number of Words: 196

Spencer Spellman has started a good discussion about this at his Traveling Philosopher blog.