In The Sphere: Photowalks, Road Trips, and Traffic

Published on Jun 5, 2009   //  In the Sphere
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It’s another fine Friday so that means it’s time for another tour of the blogosphere. This week, we hit the virtual road and travel down a few paths with some of our favorite bloggers. Let’s see where they’re heading.

Miss604 might be best known for her Vancouver-based area code, but she had the opportunity to go on a San Francisco photowalk, since she was in the town with the Golden Gate Bridge for WordCamp. Who said you can’t mix work and play, especially in a city as gorgeous as San Francisco.

Tyler Ingram was somewhat of a tourist in his own town, grabbing his trusty camera and shooting a few snapshots at Deep Cove’s Grey Rock. This goes to show you that you don’t need to break the bank to have a good time, because there will usually be a fair bit of beauty and enjoyment right within your own city. Just go explore it!

InvestorBlogger goes on a slightly different kind of adventure, discussing traffic of a different kind. He discusses how to get more traffic to your site or blog in four basic steps. I think we all want to have more people visiting our sites, so check out when he has to say about that.

Mubin Ahmed continues with the net-savvy theme by describing how to automate your blog posts to post on Twitter. When you go for a trip, you may timestamp a few posts in WordPress, but you want to share those with your Twitter followers too, right? Automate everyone and you can have a worry-free vacation. Just don’t forget your passport.

The Simple Dollar wraps up this week’s roundup by weighing the options for the family vacation. Is renting a car worth it? While it may not be quite as worth it for the single guy bandying around his own town, it seems that long road trips with multiple passengers will usually work out in favor of renting a vehicle. Think about the gas, depreciation, maintenance, and other costs that could be involved if you used your own car.