JOURNAL PAGES:  "I've filled other journals, but for some reason keep coming back to this one, using it for everything: cut lists for carpentry projects, telephone numbers, directions to surf spots, maps of rivers, little notes of what people say, sketches of ideas for cabins, Layla's crayon scribbles."  More »

MONDAY MASHUP:  This week we look at a new way of engaging people and place, the "human journalism project," and more. Happy Monday.  More »

NOTES FROM ROAD:  With a dysfunctional debit card and dwindling cash, Joshywashington is shit out of luck in Vietnam.  More »

TALES FROM THE ROAD:  These stories are imbued with the way a traveler can feel when looking at the world as if for the very first time.  More »

CONTESTS:  The first in a series of contests sponsored by Grantourismo and HomeAway invites you to write about "The 'Hood."  More »

TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO:  Paul Sullivan looks at some of the nebulous "industry standard" practices regarding photoshopping and journalism in the context of the World Press Photo contest disqualifying a recent winning entry.   More »

NOTES FROM ROAD:  “If you don’t like it, you can get out,” I said, pulling over before I'd had a chance to think.  More »

BLOGGING TIPS:  Using social buttons to share your content is essential and easy.  More »

BY THE NUMBERS:  In February, Helen Lloyd and Lars Bengtsson took a break from cycling through Africa. They had local fisherman craft them a six-meter wooden pirogue, then they paddled it down section of the Niger River in Guinea from Faranah to Kouroussa.   More »

FROM THE EDITOR:  A chance for you to let us know what you'd like to read more of at the Notebook.   More »

TALES FROM THE ROAD:  Cambodia is Tim Patterson's favorite travel destination. These stories help explain why.  More »

NOTES ON WRITING:  Writers working in nonfiction, including travel writing, need to understand and easily identify logical fallacies  More »

NOTES ON WRITING:  "I realized the value of that travel journal I was keeping – jottings that, although I didn't know it at the time, were going to find their way pretty much directly into the final, published version of the book."  More »

BLOGGING TIPS:  Besides being prepared there's also a way of going through your day as an opportunist, basically being open to and allowing yourself to physically be present where your creative "sparks" usually occur.  More »

MONDAY MASHUP:  This Monday we mash up crowdsourcing, the public domain "manifesto," a call for the renovation of state-sponsored journalism, and other ideas and projects involving and affecting writers and new media professionals of all kinds.  More »

BY THE NUMBERS:  Cities/towns slept in: 16 |Nights spent in Cuba: 33 |Nights woken by a rooster at 4:30 AM: 31  More »

PHOTO ESSAY:  Marty Machado logs the last leg of a 6-month tour as a deckhand on a container ship.  More »

WRITING SUPPORT:  Direct from email exchanges among Matador crew, here is a transparent way of dealing with hosts when you're on a press trip.   More »