I was all set to write a post on how to create a mobile version of your hiking blog; then I discovered that if you use many of the popular blogging sites — WordPress.com, Blogspot, Tumblr, and Posterous — then…
Blog: Jeff Clark’s Meanderthals Niche: Hike reports from mainly western North Carolina, with a few diversions to the American West. Nitty gritty: Clark is a consummate hiker/geek: a retired techie whose Internet Brothers site has gobs of tech-related gems. His…
Hiking blogs are the slot canyons of the Web: they dwell in a narrow niche. While some of us glom readership from folks Googling the trails we write about, some of our most avid readers are other bloggers. So, hiking…
Awhile back I started a list of hiking and camping bloggers on Twitter, which can come in handy despite its potential for becoming a soul-sucking time sink. I talked to a guy the other day who summed up Twitter’s appeal:…
I have a new gig to write occasional blog posts for Travel Country, the web retailer based in central Florida. I started out with the basics: five ways to find hiking trails online. Travel Country has an intriguing stable of…
What’s a hiking blog need to make my personal top 10? Let’s start with: Timeliness: Newsy, relevant, plugged in to the latest doings and technology. Stamina: We’ve all got a few blog posts in us, but the best bloggers keep…
I’ve been popping in on this blog since it showed up last November, when its author landed in Los Angeles after many years in the the Adirondacks of Upstate New York. A guy who writes stuff like “For us Californians,…
Credit: Sam Haraldson Sam Haraldson lives in Bozeman, Montana, and is a reliable source of bloggage from the spectacular northern Rockies. He’s a wizened veteran of splitboarding, which relies on a snowboard sawed in half for backcountry touring (why go…
It must be time for Web 4.0 by now because I’ve finally gotten around to Web 2.0, where earnest Web publishers integrate tools such as Twitter and Facebook into their sites because, you know, everybody else is. Actually, though, lately…
