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What do you wear to Seven Magic Mountains?
Seven Magic Mountains is an art installation located in the Nevada desert, and the weather can be quite hot and dry. Therefore, it is recommended to wear comfortable and breathable clothing, such as shorts, t-shirts, and sandals or sneakers. You may also want to bring a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen to protect yourself from the sun. It's also a good idea to bring a bottle of water to stay hydrated. While there is no strict dress code, it's important to dress appropriately for the weather and…
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I'm as puzzled as you are, Max. The article asks, "Why in the world would [Puerto Rican Tourism Company] bring journalists to a press trip if they had already been there?" That's not a very smart question. Doesn't the author know that travel writers, just like news reporters, must revisit places regularly?
The deluge of Seychelles stories on eTN is also puzzling, as you say, so I do assume there's some financial connection. The Seychelles would not, of course, see Puerto Rico as a direct competitor (Mauritius, maybe, but not Puerto Rico), but there still might be a financial explanation for the Puerto Rico-bashing.Maybe PRTC backed out of buying an ad or sponsoring a special section on eTN? I'm just guessing, obviously, what I do know that we're seeing there is not evenhanded journalism.
On another front, is anyone beside me annoyed by the CONSTANT coverage of the Seychelles on eTN? Seems every time the prime minister sneezes, there's a story on eTN. Can you connect the dots? Call me cynical, paranoid, or just plain evil-minded, but one could, in a moment of unfettered imagination, suppose that the Seychelles is trying to grab market share from other tropical islands and has started a smearing campaign to make sure American tourists don't go to San Juan, and oh, by the way, here are 3,452 stories on the Seychelles in case you're considering another destination.
Now of course I'm not suggesting this is the case, I'm trying to be funny here. But still, WHAT THE HECK IS UP??
LA Times / Tim Rutten: Whatever the ultimate impact of Aol's $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post on the new-media landscape, it's already clear that the merger will push more journalists more deeply into the tragically expanding low-wage sector of our increasingly brutal economy.
Slate: Making a living off the news is hard, and if Aol and The Huffington Post have figured out a way to fool search engines into pushing visitors their way, I salute them. But there's a long-term problem with their strategy: They won't be able to fool the computers forever.
HuffPost / Hilary Rosen: In all the media buzz about the Aol deal with The Huffington Post, one issue keeps coming up that makes no sense to me: Will Huffington Post bloggers still submit their work for free when HuffPost founders just made a lot of money on their investment?
Being a writer and the editor for my site, I've turned away much better writers because I can't pay them. And having written for HuffPo a few times for my day job, I stopped only after only a few times because I didn't make any money and found my work being treated as if it were merely "content" with ill timed postings.
For me, I'm willing to share content with another travel blogger -- where the benefits are mutual instead of trading "exposure" for free labor. And with the $1.39 a day adsense brings me, it's not like I could pay anyone much of anything.
Quite right, Allan. Unless I have the story wrong, A.H. retains her position as editor of the Huffington Post, so the message to me is that HuffPost is successful as is and AOL has no incentive to amend the business model.
I've canonize Samuel Johnson, who said, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
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