micael miller, ~6 hours old, 12/15/10
lau and micael after the first full night in bed:
As a contributor to the Hint Fiction Anthology, I was invited to write an essay on books / writing / influences at Three Guys One Book.
The form is kind of a rhizome.
Yesterday I published an interview with Patagonia Ambassador Liz Clark. Such an amazing woman – I just wish I could’ve met up with her, seen Swell in real life, and gotten to surf.
Matador won this year’s ‘silver’ award for Online Travel Journalism Sites (see category 22).
Here were the judges’ comments:
Matador is more than just a high-quality online travel site. It is a great community of travel enthusiasts who mix expert advice and local knowledge through blogs, forums and destination pages. The network goes beyond creating a place to aggregate eyeballs and cheap user-generated content for advertisers. Its unique Matador U is aimed at helping get better — and not just more — travel content on the Web. The training and advice in Matador U is a model that other fields of journalism should examine.
Cell stories turned one year old today. They published one of my stories, Los Pitayeros last fall. I think it was the only story I’ve published where afterward I couldn’t read it (didn’t / don’t have a droid / iphone).