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SkyMall Monday: SkyRest Travel Pillow ACTUAL REVIEW {Gadling}
Nov 23rd 2009 2:30PM I'm impressed. Your first actual review in over a year!
Feds are tired of making you wait in security line {Gadling}
Nov 21st 2009 4:09PM This isn't new at all. I signed up for this last year and have been using it since.
Four forgotten Civil War battlefields {Gadling}
Nov 19th 2009 4:04PM My friend Robert Hicks wrote a book about the Battle of Franklin (TN) called "The Widow of the South" - I had never heard of the battle, but it was amazing to see how much carnage was there in such short of time.
Little Countries, Big World: Gadling's pint-sized guide to the world's smallest countries {Gadling}
Nov 13th 2009 1:23PM Coincidentally, I'm going to try to visit most of these in 2010. I have a flight to Tuvalu and Nauru booked.
100% serious.
British Airways and Iberia agree on a "merger of equals" {Gadling}
Nov 12th 2009 7:30PM Great. Just great. Take two sucky airlines and combine them into something that will be worse. Willie Walsh has the Midas touch in reverse.
Keep your home address out of your GPS unit {Gadling}
Nov 2nd 2009 12:45PM I just put Scott's home address in my GPS so if it gets stolen, they go to his house. Win.
Know the limitations of GPS when hiking {Gadling}
Nov 2nd 2009 11:07AM This is a good start. I think you can write more about land-nav skills as an adjunct to using the GPS (I'm still old school when hiking - a good topo map + compass > GPS.) It actually might be pretty cool: navigation for urbanites.
Galley Gossip: A memorable flight for a first time flier {Gadling}
Oct 29th 2009 12:53PM Did the pilot ask him if he liked movies with gladiators in them?
Inside Air New Zealand's Matchmaking Flight {Gadling}
Oct 27th 2009 12:45PM How much did you pay for the flight?
Free press travel: necessary ... and certainly not an evil {Gadling}
Oct 23rd 2009 5:17PM Another thing that I'd like to see (in the interest of transparency) is the non-use of hotel supplied photos, otherwise I as a reader think "this is an ad, written by a Gadling writer." Some of your writers are good at this, some aren't. I'm either viewing it as an ad, or laziness on the author's part. Either way, I as a reader will call you out on it, and I expect other readers to do the same.
The question I ask out of every resort/hotel review is "Would I have gotten the same experience as the writer IF I wasn't from a travel blog and paid out of my own pocket?" Sometimes that's answered, sometimes it's not.
Transparency, such as articles like this, are the best things you as a blog can do to help reinforce the notion of objectivity when reviewing a place. I know that travel writing is subjective, but being more objective helps in differentiating hacks versus writers.
