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e commented about 100 Percent Success Rate Travel Tip, On Sunday March 8th, 2009 01:36:00 AM
Although I agree mostly with what (I think) you're saying, I do have two questions:
1. What does the picture of the girl have to do with anything? I don't understand how that's a "travel tip." When her pictures are next to the repeated comments of "100% success rate" it makes it sound like you're referring to a sex industry.
2. Don't most people want to do more than swat flies and sit at a coffee-shop and watch television when they travel? Speaking as someone who's done quite a bit of traveling (in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, though never Africa) - when I travel, I don't want to pay for plane fare, live out of a suitcase or backpack for a few weeks or months, and find lodgings and food just so I can... do the exact same things in a foreign country that I do at home!
I want to experience the unique things that culture has to offer, to do and see things that I don't have the opportunity to do or see in my own city/country. Surely there's more to be experienced in Ethiopia than just BBC and coffeeshops?
When you say "people want to brag about their great adventure and the how they made some stupid accomplishment" [sic] - I think I understand what you mean, and yes, you certainly have a point. I know people who would travel to Paris, take a picture of themselves in front of the Eiffel Tower, and go home satisfied without ever going any further. That's pretty shallow and unsatisfying, I think; focusing on the tourist attractions or just going to a place so you can check it off of a mental list - "Yep, did that" - doesn't seem very appealing to me. But, at the same time, traveling halfway around the world so that I could... watch English-language television? Wow. No.
Out of curiosity, where are you from originally? (I haven't browsed too far into the blog yet.)
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e commented about RSS Real Sucky System, On Sunday March 8th, 2009 02:01:00 AM
"Yes, I am angry; I am tired of the world devising selfish ways to take money from nice people."
Oh PLEASE. I was sympathizing with you right up until this point. Give up the drama!
The world isn't "devising selfish ways to take money from nice people." As a matter of fact, "the world" has created a way to GIVE you money - a way that didn't exist ten or fifteen years ago.
Answer me this: If you were not making money from your website - however much you may feel you're getting shorted by RSS feeds - how would you be maintaining your CHOSEN and PREFERRED lifestyle?
You make money from ads. Ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, this would not have been an option. You'd have had to have a "real" job, a trust fund, or a lot of connections in the world of free-lance journalism (and I have to say, with your shaky grasp of the English language, you'd probably pay as much for editing services as you'd earn per article).
What's happened instead is that technology has CREATED a way for you (and others) to earn some money while still doing what you enjoy - and then technology advanced a bit further (RSS feeds), and now you're not earning quite as much, so you're having a temper tantrum.
Keep in mind that no one is forcing you to live as a travel-blogger; in fact, the internet and the money you make from ads is ALLOWING you to do that... for now. If you're lucky, it'll last. If you're not so lucky, you'll have to do something else, like 90% of the rest of the world.
I have to say I like Wade's outlook a lot better: "I would rather have readers than money." Wade gives the impression that he is doing something that he enjoys, and - bonus! - he gets to make a little money from it. Maybe not enough money, but some. Your post, by contrast, projects a sense of entitlement and foot-stomping.
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