A big surprise this morning - my fair city’s own newspaper, Plattsburgh’s Press Republican has launched another blog. Another blog? Yup, as previously mentioned, they’ve already gone 2.0, in an almost invisible way. Now their newsroom gets to join the fun.
First published in 1811, the Press Republican remains one of less than [...]

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Update: Internet Archive: USGS Maps
Anyone who doesn’t read Boing Boing simply isn’t living life to the fullest.
I never, ever want to hear another person tell me they don’t have a map or can’t find one.
Jared Benedict just liberated 56,000, 1:24k scale digital topographic maps produced by the USGS. They are now going to be [...]

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It was just a matter of time before one of the giants put things together. Yahoo has revealed an incredible Trip Planner which integrates their popular photo-sharing application Flickr and Yahoo Maps. While still in the early stages, I believe this sets the stage for further development of these Web 2.0 information verticals [...]

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Update: Official Tourism Brochures
Marketing Sherpa has a case study about the Virginia Beach tourism website’s redesign. Effective websites are extremely important for destination marketing and this article sums up many issues that those of us in the industry should consider when creating or redesigning our promotional sites.

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Alright, I’ll stop bugging Google about Human Rights. One thing they are kicking butt with is their mapping technology. Remember the ‘old days’ when Mapquest was the big deal? Working in an info center exposes me to my share of interesting people. Some of the most lost are those with print-outs [...]

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Tourism marketing, particularly destination marketing, is heavily information dependant. In once sense, our primary mission is the gathering and dissemination of relevant data. Witness our massive lodging and events databases. Over at Microperuasion, Steve Rubel notes an interesting article at eMarketer which points to some advertising trends in the mobile communications market.

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