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Stephen Colbert On Working For Free
The Colbert Report I haven’t posted on this blog in forever, but this video – a clip from last night’s Colbert Report – seemed like a good way to get my feet wet again. In this clip, Stephen Colbert discusses the recent layoff of 50 staff members at CNN: “Nobody important. Just editors and photojournalists.” [...]
Rule Britannia: My Article for Saveur
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of writing a FOB (front of the book) “feature” on the legendary Parsi eatery Britannia & Co. for Saveur magazine. At the time, I was living in Bombay, India, and had frequented Britannia enough to know that it deserved to be written about – if not by [...]
Blogging Conferences You Should Know About
I started blogging back in 2003 (on Blogger) and on this blog in 2004. But it was only recently that I realized a whole world of blogging conferences had sprung up, promising to help bloggers up their game, find sponsors, and more. I’ve learned about these conferences almost exclusively on Twitter, where I see hashtags [...]
Hot Men of Travel Writing: The Results
About a month ago, in response to a fun article on the Galavanting website, I wrote that I wanted to create my own, crowd-sourced list of the hunkiest men in travel. Well, I am happy to say the results are in! And there are some pretty good names and faces to add to the original [...]
Five Films About Italy
I recently got the coolest invitation ever. The editorial director of focusfeatures.com, distributor of the new George Clooney film The American, asked me to come up with a list of my five favorite Italy films. The result was Five in Focus: American Expat Bloggers on Italian Movies. I was one of six bloggers that was [...]
The Hunkiest Men in Travel
Travel writing has always been considered one of the sexiest kinds of writing. Everyone wants to travel, everyone dreams of travel, and travel writers can make those vacation fantasies just pop off the page. So, it made sense when I saw today that the girls from Galavanting posted Galavanting Picks: The 2010 Hunkiest Men in [...]
Everything You Need To Know About Blogging You Can Learn From Hip Hop
Time for a true confession: As a freelance writer, I have definitely been intrigued by the possibility of making money from blogging. In this day and age, who hasn’t? I’ve made a little money from Adsense ads, affiliate ads, and a few ad sales on my other website Italofile: The Italy Travel Resource. But it [...]
28 Things I Learned At TBEX
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend TBEX, a meet-up of travel bloggers organized by Travel Blog Exchange and, in particular, Kim Mance of Galavanting. For those of you who attended and may have met me, I was under the guise of Italofile, my blog about Italy travel (@italofileblog on Twitter), and also [...]
Freelance Travel Writing and the Art of Being a Parent
I recently turned down a press trip to a place I’ve always wanted to go. The press trip was going to be an all-expenses paid trip to a destination near the Mediterranean Sea. I would go, see the sites, and write about the destination for a few publications. I didn’t have a firm assignment for [...]
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