Someday we will travel again – albeit usually with a small person in tow for quite some time, I’m sure.
The Atlantic recently put together a set of helpful travel social networking/user-generated sites on the web ranging from Google Earth to Trip Advisor to 43Places. I’d not really heard of Ning before this week, but coincidentally got an invite to a group there and saw it listed in this article within a few days of each other. Must be reaching critical mass (I haven’t had a chance to check it out, yet).
Meanwhile, Glen blows raspberries at TripAdvisor – I agree with his rationale:
To help TripAdvisor out, I thought I would add some of these comments that I’ve been writing here and copied in my Ozeki review from a couple of weeks ago into their form and submitted it. I received a rejection for that review today because their policy is “No quoted material from other sources, no material published elsewhere, including other travel review sites.” Pfui! The only way TripAdvisor gets exclusive rights to my writing is if they pay for it. So much for their version of Web 2.0.
