After a down-and-back trip to Tampa, this week’s topics include thoughts on the recently announced changes to America West’s and United’s boarding schemes — are they focusing on the right thing? Also, the need to stay home sometimes, and how Microsoft Research‘s personal black box project might change the way we think about travel pictures. Here’s a direct link to the podcast file.
Here are the show notes from Travelcommons podcast #21:
- Intro music — Warmth by Makkina
- Flew down to Tampa for a Monday morning meeting
- Haven’t written anything in my Moleskine travel journal — this podcast seems to be monopolizing my creative time
- Thanks to all the listeners who are using the “Recommend Us” link on refer their friends to the podcast
- Direct link to Hilary Baumann’s Pant Rant on her ClothingCult.com blog
- Bridge music — I’m Standing in Line by John Lee Hooker
- Direct link to the Wall Street Journal article (subscription required) on America West’s new “reverse pyramid” seating scheme
- Shouldn’t they be spending their time on improving baggage handling?
- Bridge Music — Wall of Death by Richard & Linda Thompson
- A friend and I are surprised to find ourselves both in town on a Wednesday
- I seem to hit the wall every 4-6 weeks and have to come off the road
- Bridge Music — Pictures of You by The Cure
- IT Conversations podcast about Microsoft Research’s SenseCam research project
- Direct link to a excerpt of the IT Conversations podcast
- Closing music — Ramblin’ Man by the Allman Brothers Band
- Feedback at comments[at]travelcommons.com, the comment board on podcastalley.com, or right here in the comments section below
- Direct link to the show
3 comments on “Podcast #21 – Science of Airline Boarding; New Ways for Travel Pictures”
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Hi! I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve added you to the links on my site: theme tourism – I ‘ve just started a podcast for and by my students of tourism and think that your podcast could be something they would enjoy and benefit from listening to. Keep up the good work
Graham
I’ve been wanting to post kudos and other comments for a while now, but it was this episode that finally got me motivated to post. (I’ve got some other thoughts, but will save them for a later time.)
The reason for this post is that your comment about travel pictures really struck a personal chord with me. I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago and, during the reception, I’ll bet that approximately 2/3 of the guests were either perched in their seats or walking around with their cameras trying to capture the “perfect moment”. And, since most of the cameras were digital, the majority of these people were taking pictures and then quickly reviewing them on the spot…. sometimes with other people too. This left a small minority of people who actually seemed to be enjoying the wedding reception, without a care.
Isn’t this really the way we should be enjoying life and all of its events and activities in which we participate? Don’t get me wrong, I could fill a hard drive with digital pictures and many boxes full of printed pictures from the past. I really do believe in capturing memory on film (or bits and bytes!) However, a quote from Jackie Kennedy that I read just last night seemed to put it all in perspective for me: “I want to live life, not record it.” We need to figure out the balance of living life with documenting life.
Well, that’s all for now….Keep up the good work; you’re doing a great job. I keep a blog and agree that it can be difficult at times finding (interesting) material on a regular basis 🙂
Loved the bit about checking luggage. When I first started I was on my first trip with a couple of others and I checked my luggage. All I could hear was “What do you think we’re on vacation?” when I showed up at the gate with no luggage in hand. I also bought several meals and a bunch of drinks that week. Longest week of my life.
I learned my lesson.
I figure that not checking baggage saves me about 30 mins per connection. All in all I think this have given me an extra week or two in my overall life cycle.
Keep the podcasts coming….