We are pleased to announce that Uncornered Market is on the ballot for Best Travelogue at the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards. Many of you nominated us in January; it’s thanks to your support that we are one of the finalists.
So we ask again for your help. If you enjoy the articles, photography and occasional video that you see here, please take a moment to vote for us before March 20, 2009. Go to the Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards website and scroll down to Best Travelogue where uncorneredmarket.com is listed. Then place your vote. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
2 Comments | 27 February 2009
Yesterday, our website was out for roughly 24 hours. Tragic? Certainly not. But maddening and disappointing it was.
If you attempted to visit yesterday, only to be rewarded with dead space and cryptic system messages, we apologize.
We thank Dreamhost, our website hosting provider, who in its infinite wisdom decided to schedule a move of our website in the middle of the day without informing us before throwing the kill switch. In a perfect storm of technical misfortune, our website move also coincided with a handful of other system-wide outages at Dreamhost. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging, Technology by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
7 Comments | 18 February 2009
drumroll…us. OK, so the award is only virtual, but it’s always nice to be noticed.
Karen from Rambling Spoon passed the Brillante Weblog Award to us earlier in the week. As the Asia correspondent for Gourmet magazine, Karen knows a thing or two about food. Her blog conveys the wonderful intersection of food and travel, something we understand well.
Similar to a chain letter (meme in blog-speak), the award stipulates that winners pass the award on to seven other blogs. While there’s no threat of doomsday if we don’t, I thought I’d use the opportunity to highlight a few blogs I’ve been reading recently. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging by: Audrey Scott
7 Comments | 19 September 2008
Having been on the go for one year, we required some stillness in order to evaluate how this journey of ours is going – not just from a travel perspective, but from a personal and business perspective. Beijing seemed as good a place as any to perform this exercise. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging, China, Personal Growth by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
No Comments | 27 December 2007
We thought we were royally screwed yesterday. Our website shut us out. We couldn’t post comments, create new posts or access other back-end functionality that allows us to manage the site. We received messages that our website’s spam filter had “caught” us and was trying to protect the website…from us, its creators! Being blocked from sites and functionality is nothing new for us (this is a common problem in Central Asia and China), but being shut out by our own site is. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging, Technology by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
2 Comments | 7 December 2007
