Travel – Garaphernalia 7.5

2013 Travel Photography Tour At long last, I can finally announce the destination for the 2013 Everything Everywhere Travel Photography Tour. This year we will be going to ITALY!

The tour will take place from May 11-24.

Here is a list of some of the places that we’ll be visiting:

Venice
Cinque Terre
Florence
Rome
Vatican City
Pompeii
Naples
Sorrento
Amalfi Coast

2012 Everything Everywhere Travel Photography Tour Route Once again the tour will be run by the small group travel experts at G Adventures.

The goals for the tour are really simple. I hope for everyone who attends to:

Take amazing photos of Italy.
Improve your skills as a photographer.

Pricing information and registration will be available soon on the G Adventures website. If you are interested in attending, start setting aside May 11-24. The tour will begin in Venice and end in Rome.

Everything you need to know about Klout and the Travel Industry

This was taken from a recent article in Wired. It is from Klout product director Chris Makarsky:

It became clear that if I wanted more Klout, I’d need to game the system harder. I could glom on to influential Twitterati and connive to get retweeted by them. I could dramatically accelerate the frequency of my tweets, posting late into the night. And I could commit myself to never taking a break: Makarsky made it clear that a two-week vacation from social media might cause my score to nose-dive.

So, going on vacation will cause your Klout score to drop?

Allow me get to all Aristotelian on this:

1) People who travel will, all things being equal, have lower Klout scores than people who do not travel.
2) People with higher Klout scores are more “influential”.

Ergo

3) People who do not travel will be more influential about travel than people who travel.

QED

If you got a bloody nose thinking about this, I apologize.