evan

I'm happy to point to the announcement that Wikitravel Press now has a guide to Paris. Paris has long been a targeted city for Wikitravel Press, and I'm really happy we were able to get this book out.

• original URL: http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/3_Flor%C3%A9al_CCXVI

evan

I'm really pleased to announce here that one of the projects Maj and I have been working on for a long time has finally come to fruition. Today Wikitravel Press launched its first two Open Content printed guidebooks -- Wikitravel Chicago and Wikitravel Singapore.

• original URL: http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/12_Pluvi%C3%B4se_CCXVI

Tatata

I made a bookmarklet to search images on Flickr.

The search condition is included to find images within the limits of CC-BY or CC-BY-SA.

Tatata

ウィキトラベルで利用できる画像をフリッカー (Flickr) で検索するためのブックマークレットを作成しました。検索条件として、「クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 (CC-BY)」又は「クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 (CC-BY-SA)」により使用許諾された画像であることが組み込まれています。ご利用下さい。

Tatata

I made bookmarklets for Wikitravel.

Tatata

ウィキトラベル用のブックマークレットを作成しました。

zcopley

Well, it’s been crappy month for my blog — not a single post since last month. It’s been a hectic July with lots of family activity, and I’ve been offline more than is the norm. Luckily, I finally have something cool enough to get me out of this slump behavior… Today my friends Evan and Maj [...]

• original URL: http://zach.copley.name/blog/2007/07/24/vinismo-wiki-wine/

evan

24 July 2007 is the fourth birthday of Wikitravel, the free travel guide that I and my wife Michele Ann Jenkins started on July 24, 2003.

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zcopley

I usually have no interest in Slate, the online magazine created by Microsoft and later sold to The Washington Post. The articles mostly contain mediocre analysis of whatever the editors deem to be the issues of the day. It’s sort of like an online Newsweek. And surprise, surprise, (probably I’m the last person to know [...]

• original URL: http://zach.copley.name/blog/2007/04/09/slates-hit-piece-about-wikitravel/

evan

I forgot to mention -- we got a last-minute call yesterday to be on Global Quebec at 8:40AM EDT for their morning news/entertainment show. If you're in Montreal, watch us!

• original URL: http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/9_Prairial_CCXV

evan

Another beautiful day here in Paradise. Montreal is fantastic in the late Spring/early Summer -- it's a great time to be here in the city. Yesterday, Amita June and I went to Parc Jean Drapeau, the beautiful park on an island in the St. Lawrence, the former site of Expo 67. We played at the (really cool) new playground, ran around in the grass, and looked at the river rushing by.

• original URL: http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/20_Flor%C3%A9al_CCXV

evan

Wow! I'm so thrilled this morning to find out that Wikitravel won the Webby Award for Best Travel Site. How great is that?

tags: wikitravel wiki travel webbies winner

• original URL: http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/11_Flor%C3%A9al_CCXV

evan

Long time no blog. Well, a long time for me -- it's been more than a week, which is pretty unusual. To be fair, I've been blogging on my Wikitravel Extra blog, since we were spending our week in Puerto Rico.

• original URL: http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/4_Flor%C3%A9al_CCXV

maj

There's that day, usually about half-way into a vacation (preferably to a tropical island with friends), when you stop thinking of the First Day or the Third Day or Four-Days-Until-I-Go-Home and just think about "today." I seemed to have reached that point, because I'm having a really hard time sorting out which day was which great beach or fantastic meal. I'm sure I have everyone's sympathy...

The famous firehouse ("Parque de Bombas") in the square in Old Town Ponce.

evan

We've had some pretty intense driving around rural Puerto Rico in the last two days. Tuesday morning we hit the road westward from Ponce to San Germán, a small inland colonial-era city known for its architecture. It was a nice place to stop -- we took some good pictures and walked around the towns two plazas. But the unbearable Puerto Rican tendency towards traffic jams made the visit barely worth the trouble. We were glad when we got on the road again, south towards Parguera.

Brunch at the Parrot Café.

Maj, Evan and Amita June on the walls of the El Morro fort. Yes, that is the edge of the wall, and yes it does plummet to the sea. I'm not sure what we were thinking here.

Jani enjoys the chicken and rice.

Amita June getting a handful of arroz de camarones.

evan

I'm in the extremely pleasant balcony hallway of the awesome Hotel Melia in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Everyone's getting ready to go for a trip to the west of the island, so I thought I'd take a few moments to blog about the last few days.

evan

Maj, Amita June and I got off yesterday pretty well from Montreal. It was a bit of a rush at the last minute, since we decided to meet with our general contractor for house renovations just before going to the airport. (Yeah, I never thought I'd have a general contractor or do house renovations, either.)

 There was snow a foot deep in Montreal when we left. It's been a crazy April in Quebec, and a little bit depressing. I love snow more than anyone I know, and even I am starting to get sick of it. Spring already! C'mon!

evan

A lot of people have asked me about the Tim Wu piece in Slate about Wikitravel. I've commented already about the article in Wikitravel's Logbook: 8 April 2007.

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evan

I'm really excited this morning. Wikitravel has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Travel category. It's amazing to get this kind of recognition for the work that our community has done over the last four years.

• original URL: http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/20_Germinal_CCXV

zcopley

The Staircase

Originally uploaded by zcopley.

Congratulations to my friends at Wikitravel, the awesome community-written- and maintained online travel guide. They have just launched the public beta of a major social networking addition to their project, called Extra, which makes it easier for Wikitravellers to connect with [...]

• original URL: http://zach.copley.name/blog/2007/03/29/extra-extra-the-mysterious-loretto-staircase/