Hi there. Don't worry, you're not losing your mind: We are publishing lots more posts these days. It's a new thing we're trying. Maybe you enjoy it?
Or maybe it's just too much. (It's OK, we know you can't always be reading travel news!) Have you tried keeping up with us via our RSS feed or email newsletter? Maybe you only enjoy stuff by one or two of our contributors? Click on any author's name to see his or her stories exclusively.
If, on the other hand, you want even more Jaunted, you can follow us on Twitter or on Flickr.
In honor of all the extra stuff we've been doing lately, here's some cool stuff from earlier this week you may have missed...
Were you already criticizing the American Airlines blog by the time we posted about it? Are your fave spots in LA ruined after they appear on "The Hills?" Do you have a collection of glamour shots--of Airbus planes?
You should probably be writing for us, then. And here's the good news: We pay our writers.
Turns out Rafat Ali, the founder of the digital content news site paidContent, is as hooked on airport photo shoots as we are.
The only part of airports that I like: celebrity sightings. Below is a small collage of my sightings over the last six months: the latest was the biggest: a very frail Peter O' Toole was on the same flight as mine from JFK to LAX this Friday
Cool. We have amassed quite a collection of celebrity sightings at airports, but we want more. So, if you see someone of note at an airport, have a camera phone, or a digital camera, and are not shy about using it -- feel free to shoot us the results at tips@jaunted.com.
Just title the email "Airport Photos Shoot" and we will take care of the rest. Oh, and as always, be considerate there is a nice way and a not so nice way to snap a quick photo -- go with the nice way.
Rafat's celeb shots, from top left going clockwise: Peter O'Tool LAX, Quentin Tarantino LHR, Ted Danson LAX and M.I.A LAX.
Chris Elliott rocks. Are we just saying that because he named us one of the most influential travel bloggers of 2007? Nope. On more than one occasion travel's true ombudsman helped crack Skybus, serving up the executives' phone numbers so stranded passengers could at least call someone.
Chris serves dutifully as the arbitrator of travel customer service queries daily in every media imaginable. Television, radio, Interwebs and even print. He's the Diddy of travel, with his hands in a bit of everything, and the bottom line is if you aren't listening to his conversations you're probably missing something.
We recently set up an account and gave it a test tweet (ugh, unfortunately, that is what they call it) this week during our Skybus coverage extravaganza.
If you are into such things add us as a friend and we will add you back. Let's see if this Twitter craze is of any use to hyper travelers.
Do people actually get paid to write about riding the virgin, chasing Jessica Alba around Vancouver, and reporting on airport wifi. Yes. Now it is not the kind of pay that is going to wipe out the deficit, but pay nonetheless. Getting paid to blog about travel is not an urban legend.
The Jaunted Flickr pool is now 1,938 photos and growing, but we know we can get even more excellent travel photos up there. As you know we use photos from the pool in our posts, and Jaunted Field Trip photos are always included in the pool--both linking back to the photographers stream.
Currently, we are looking forward to throwing even more linkage toward talented photographers from around the world.
Just go here and join our group. Then, on any photos you want to send in, click "Send to group" in the toolbar underneath the title. Select "Jaunted" and you will be diving in with the grace of Greg Louganis.
We want you to get active at getting your excellent travel photos in here and help them get the attention they so deserve. Oh, and if any Jaunted readers are going on cool field trips, don't be shy, let us know. Who knows, you may be able to become a Jaunted correspondent for your trip--if you can say the alphabet backwards and pat your head while rubbing your belly.
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