Stopping BlogSherpa recruitment

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

It’s been an incredible journey so far – we’ve launched the biggest and best travel blog network around, and more importantly – it’s worked.
It’s now time for us to take a step back and examine what we’ve achieved, and what we need to do next – in particular we need to examine some of the…

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The Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards 2010

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

They’re coming…. last year we had a blast and this year is going to be even better.
Nominations will open within the next month before voting and a live event announcing the winners shortly after…. keep your eyes here and on @lplabs on twitter for up to date information as it’s announced

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Mob Refactor

Leon Messerschmidt Lonely Planet author

In the Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond popularized the words, otherwise known as Linus’ law that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”.  Linus’ law is actually just a nice way of telling developers that two heads are better than one and it doesn’t only apply to open source.  Which brings us to the…

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Recent improvements to lonelyplanet.com

Katie Marcar Lonely Planet author

Last week we successfully released another fortnight’s worth of changes to Lonelyplanet.com.
It is a fairly small batch we can announce this time as the team has been working for 4 weeks on functionality for the following fortnight’s release. So stay tuned…
Below are highlights of the changes we introduced this time:

We made it easier for users…

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BlogSherpa now open

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Well there you go, BlogSherpa has been live in beta for a little over two months. In that time we’ve been manually crunching blogs into the back-end.
The good news is that the arduous back-end system that allowed us to add blogs has been replaced by a new automated sign-up that runs from the new and…

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The 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards – Winners

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Congratulations to all of the winners in the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards. The evening was a blast, we had a lot of fun and some excellent blogs won-out to take home some rather groovy prizes.
Well done to everyone that got nominated, I, and I know the judges have had a wonderful time reading,…

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Prizes for the LP Travel Blogger Awards

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

We’ve been very quiet about the prizes for the Lonely Planet Travel Blogger Awards – for a very simple reason. We wanted people to enter and vote because they were entering really good blogs, not to win a prize.
But of course, we haz prizes.
Each category winner will take home (prepare showbiz style music backing):

$40 Blurb…

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Awards – Public Voting Closed – Results

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

Well what a few weeks! We’ve seen tweets in numbers I stopped counting, facebook campaigns that would leave many advertising managers blushing and for the most part, very friendly competition.
So without further ado, here are the points for the public voting section of the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blogging Awards – remember these points only…

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How we’re working out the votes for the awards

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

I thought it may be prudent to explain exactly how voting is going to work for the LP Travel Blogger Awards – we think this is the fairest method that tries to stomp on any mass automatic voting that may happen. This is not a popularity contest. We will make every effort to remove fraudulent…

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Voting open for the 2009 Travel Blogger Awards

Matthew Cashmore Lonely Planet author

The results are in, we’ve run the figures and we present the top five nominated blogs in each category.
You can vote for one blog in each category. Please do only vote once – we’re sure there are ways you can get around the tech, but please, do only vote once. We reserve the right to…

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