{"id":73,"date":"2006-01-27T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/01\/bloggers-in-amsterdam.html"},"modified":"2006-01-27T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T13:30:00","slug":"bloggers-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/bloggers-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions is sending a group of 25 bloggers on a <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.mediapost.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&#038;s=39104&amp;Nid=18020&amp;p=342926\">free trip to Amsterdam<\/a>, says Online Media Daily. I think this is further recognition of the influence of blogs in the travel world. Travel is one of the most popular blog topics because it&#8217;s all about hints and tips and personal observations, perfect for a community of personal publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing has an interesting experiment in this area called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inflighthq.com\/\">InflightHQ<\/a>. It&#8217;s a blog for frequent travelers operated by Boeing. Earlier I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.j3tlag.com\">J3tlag.com<\/a>, a travel site operated by a shoe company and made up of blogger contributions. Travel may be the killer app for blog advertising.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, note the comment from the Netherlands Tourism rep at the end of the Online Media Daily story: &#8220;We pretty much stopped with TV ads or radio ads or branded ads. It just wasn&#8217;t worth it anymore. Online, there are just many more possibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions is sending a group of 25 bloggers on a free trip to Amsterdam, says Online Media Daily. I think this is further recognition of the influence of blogs in the travel world. Travel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/bloggers-in-amsterdam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}