To Seattle, Guided Only by User-Generated Information
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.11.08 | 8:59 AM ET
A writer for Slate tried to pull off a trip to Thailand guided by user-generated information last year, but ended up purchasing a copy of Lonely Planet. Now another writer has tried a similar experiment. Wayne Curtis appears to have made it all the way through his trip to the Pacific Northwest without picking up some professional dead-tree media, but with mixed results. “For travelers, as for so many other Web users, the Internet is great for finding the needle in the haystack,” he writes in the Atlantic. “But it’s not so good at finding the haystack—at culling infinite possibilities into a manageable list of options.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
