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World Hum Named 2010 Webby Honoree

Jim Benning — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:31:10 +0000

Great news, especially since it was in the writing category. Other sites also honored for the quality of their writing include NPR, BBC World Service and Vanity Fair.

Thanks, Webbys.

Make Guacamole, Not War

Jim Benning — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:16:50 +0000

Does travel make us wiser but less happy, as Thomas Jefferson famously suggested in a letter to a friend?

I consider the question in a short piece on the escalating drug war in Michoacán and my own memories of traveling through the Mexican state, which also happens to be home to the largest avocado-producing region in the world.

The piece appears on World Hum and was also recently published on the Huffington Post.

World Hum / Restless Legs Reading

Jim Benning — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:20:47 +0000

Inside World Hum’s New Look

Jim Benning — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:14:12 +0000

World Hum 3.0

Jim Benning — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:00:18 +0000

Last night, after months of work, we finally posted the newly redesigned World Hum. I loved the old design, but it was in dire need of a fresh look, and it was a bit prehistoric in its architecture. This site, designed by the Travel Channel’s Joe Rivera, is a huge improvement.

It’s got everything a newfangled travel website should have: big, splashy photos, great stories, like this piece by Anthony Bourdain, engaging voices like Tom Swick, and video, including this short piece about the redesign itself, and another about a recent reading we had in New York City.

We kicked off the new look with World Hum’s Top 40 Travel Songs of All Time. Dozens of World Hum contributors voted. One of my all-time favorites is number 10 on the list.

Now the real fun begins: filling out the new site with more great travel stories, videos and images.