August 24, 2003
Visit Machu Picchu virtually
I don't buy many CD-ROMs, but I'm tempted to get this one:
Today's Mercury News has a review of Digital Technology Frontier's The Ancient City of Machu Picchu, part of their Virtual Vacations series.
August 05, 2003
`Lost' Inca city a royal retreat
This has nothing to do with new media, intellectual property or politics, but I love Incan and Mayan culture, and hope to visit Macchu Picchu some day. Today's San Jose Merc Science section carried an article about new findngs that Macchu Picchu was in fact a vacation retreat for the Incan royal family -- sort of an elaborate Camp David -- and that it was occupied for only 80 years.
July 30, 2003
Travel photo finds a print home
An editor at National Geographic Adventure Magazine spotted this photo of Chacala, Mexico, on the Web. Tonight I signed a contract for the magazine to use it in its October issue. Cool.
Joe said:
interesting privacy implications of photoshop cropping! I had no idea...
JD said:
Hi Joe. Oh, I read my postings -- they're hard to miss on my blog.
She came across the image on another web site that had pilfered my image, but she was able to trace it back to me. I'm still trying to figure out how to get Google Images to spider photos on my site.
Joe said:
I was talking about the comments... good to see you do... interesting that the second comment was supposed to be posted on the topless entry a few down... but maybe I clicked this one. sorry for confusion.
July 22, 2003
The Greek islands revisited
I still get emails every month from strangers who plan to visit the Greek islands, thanks to the travel article I wrote about the honeymoon my wife and I spent there seven years ago this month. (Apparently it turns up fairly high in Google.) Here's the article I wrote, and the photo gallery of Crete, Santorini and Naxos. (Newspaper travel editors are underpaid and underappreciated, but I still think they're some of the luckiest souls around.)
And now comes a NY Times travel piece about Santorini that brings back memories: A Shining Arc in the Aegean.
April 28, 2003
Among the Maya ruins
Yesterday's NY Times Travel section featured stories on Maya ruins in Central America and southern Mexico.
Here's an online photo slide show accompanying that article. I just love this stuff, as you might guess from my own photo package of Maya ruins at Tikal, Guatemala. Now I've got to figure out how to carve out some vacation time in Palenque or Tulum.
