Frommer's new blog: Behind the Guides

As part of the community overhaul that Frommers.com is currently undergoing, the company long known for their excellent guidebooks just started a new blog: Behind the Guides. In it, editors from across the spectrum of publications are contributing niblets from their travel worlds in a fun look inside of the minds of their staff.

Topics range from broad green articles about Green Hotels to practical advice about traveling with pets, each article covering a speck in the vast field of travel knowledge that Frommer's provides.

Checking in on our good friend Stephen Bassman's most recent article, "Preposterous Press Release: 'The Dream' drink celebrates Obama, MLK, drunkenness," I was initially concerned about the direction of the blog as Steve opened by pasting the content of what looked like a pretty lame press release. To my delight, however, the article goes on to talk about the idiocy of jumping on the presidental bandwagon and is a light hearted essay.

I'm glad that Behind the Guides will have a distinctive voice, an editorial body that will develop as the team continues to post and mature as a blog. We'll see you around the neighborhood, Behind the Guides. Hopefully soon.

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