Praise for World Hum in the Australian:
Founded in 2001 and tagged “dispatches from a shrinking planet”, World Hum promises “the best travel stories on the internet” and it often rises to the challenge (note that the quality is patchy and some writers are, well, city blocks ahead of others). But it’s an energetic and engaged [...]

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.

* Update, April, 25 2010: Despite sold-out classes and overwhelmingly positive feedback from students, our travel writing classes have been put on hiatus for the time being.
We’ve posted half a dozen 2010 weekend dates for our Travel Writing in the Digital Age classes, which cover travel writing, travel blogging, audio slideshow production and using social [...]

I’m excited to announce the creation of new two-day workshops on Travel Writing in the Digital Age, presented by World Hum and Travel Channel Academy. Few classes these days thoroughly address how travel writing has changed and evolved with the internet. That’s why Michael Yessis and I created this course: to bring much of what [...]