Apr 15, 2008
If you're a fan of the Hawaiian Islands, you'll want to rush quick to the Beat of Hawaii blog
The 50th State has just obtained an important blogger, a critical chronicler of its foibles and trends. In www.beatofhawaii.com, two recent transplants to the Islands are uncovering all the secrets, disclosing the less attractive developments, showing the shady side of travel to and within our own tropical paradise.
Wanna know what it's like to take the new Super Ferry from island to island? Beat of Hawaii shows a video of the ungainly ship pitching and heaving in high seas, and then attaches a "Barf-o-Meter" to record the degree of seasickness aboard. It also points out that on a recent sailing to Maui, only 45 passengers booked onto a vessel capable of carrying several hundred.
Wanna learn the impact that the bankruptcy of ATA and Aloha Airlines has had on airfares to Hawaii? Beat of Hawaii ventures an estimate. Wanna hear the predictions of insiders about the next Hawaiian Airline to go belly-up? It's all in Beat of Hawaii.
I don't agree with all their conclusions. But it's fun to read this new site, an example of the valuable insights and advice that honest blogging can bring to travel.
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Wanna know what it's like to take the new Super Ferry from island to island? Beat of Hawaii shows a video of the ungainly ship pitching and heaving in high seas, and then attaches a "Barf-o-Meter" to record the degree of seasickness aboard. It also points out that on a recent sailing to Maui, only 45 passengers booked onto a vessel capable of carrying several hundred.
Wanna learn the impact that the bankruptcy of ATA and Aloha Airlines has had on airfares to Hawaii? Beat of Hawaii ventures an estimate. Wanna hear the predictions of insiders about the next Hawaiian Airline to go belly-up? It's all in Beat of Hawaii.
I don't agree with all their conclusions. But it's fun to read this new site, an example of the valuable insights and advice that honest blogging can bring to travel.
Write and read comments about this post.
Aug 8, 2007
"Search This Blog" -- An exciting new feature of Arthur Frommer Online
Since starting this daily blog in early May of this year, we've posted more than 250 separate items dealing with a dizzying array of travel topics. And four to five new posts go up each weekday. If you'd like to find a blog dealing with topics that interest you -- "Packages to Costa Rica," "Broadway theater tickets," "Prague," "Angkor Wat," whatever -- you now have a search engine for finding them, a lightning-fast machine created by our friends at Google.
Look at the upper-right-hand corner of the opening page of our daily blog, where you'll find the words "Search This Blog." Type in the topic you're seeking, then click on the word "Search," and voilà! up will come the posts dealing with that topic. In just a few short weeks, Arthur Frommer Online will reach a total of 500 and more posts, making "Search This Blog" an ever-more-important tool for pulling up subject matter that relates to your next trip.
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Look at the upper-right-hand corner of the opening page of our daily blog, where you'll find the words "Search This Blog." Type in the topic you're seeking, then click on the word "Search," and voilà! up will come the posts dealing with that topic. In just a few short weeks, Arthur Frommer Online will reach a total of 500 and more posts, making "Search This Blog" an ever-more-important tool for pulling up subject matter that relates to your next trip.
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Jul 12, 2007
Here's how to see dozens of our recent posts -- all at once
I sometimes worry that readers of this blog may not be able to access the rich assortment of comments made by other readers in response to posts that ran many days ago. By clicking on the words "Write and read comments about this post," they will of course see readers' comments with respect to the particular post at which they're looking -- but only with respect to that one post.
There's a broader assortment available to you. If you will click on any "Write and read comments about this post," you'll access a page that is headed with the line "Travel Talk > Arthur Frommer's Blog >." And if you'll then click on "Arthur Frommer's Blog," you'll access a page containing, in effect, a giant table of contents: the titles for no fewer than 120-or-so of the posts appearing in the preceding 25-or-so days.
And at the end of each of those titles, you'll find references to the number of persons who responded, often favorably, sometimes angrily, always entertainingly and smartly, with respect to that post. One recent blog subject drew 44 comments (both pro and bitterly con) as of today (and the numbers are constantly going up).
So for a more complete look at the dialogs that these blogs often provoke, simply click on "Arthur Frommer's Blog." I hope you will.
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There's a broader assortment available to you. If you will click on any "Write and read comments about this post," you'll access a page that is headed with the line "Travel Talk > Arthur Frommer's Blog >." And if you'll then click on "Arthur Frommer's Blog," you'll access a page containing, in effect, a giant table of contents: the titles for no fewer than 120-or-so of the posts appearing in the preceding 25-or-so days.
And at the end of each of those titles, you'll find references to the number of persons who responded, often favorably, sometimes angrily, always entertainingly and smartly, with respect to that post. One recent blog subject drew 44 comments (both pro and bitterly con) as of today (and the numbers are constantly going up).
So for a more complete look at the dialogs that these blogs often provoke, simply click on "Arthur Frommer's Blog." I hope you will.
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