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MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY TRIP. Inspiration and practical info on variety of destinations worldwide and all things #familytravel

Antwerpen, België Присоединился Haziran 2016
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Katherine Argent
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
Tonight I end a 21-year blogging career. I wrote my very first blog post on 3 March 2003 on an old, long-dead blog in what seemed like another lifetime ago. In fact, it was. Blogging connected me to the world at a time my life was isolated and controlled in an increasingly abusive marriage. It gave me a way to learn and to share my knowledge with others, and when my husband died from brain cancer it gave me a way to support my family, to contribute to my oldest’s wedding, and to put my youngest through college. That was possible not just because I could reach readers through Google, but because I could turn my thoughts and knowledge into an ad-supported commodity that attracted others who wanted to know what I knew. That has been taken from me now. Google has claimed my work as theirs. They make it freely available without attribution. I can no longer turn my knowledge into an income — but Google has. And I had no say in it. I was not asked if I was fine with my personal insights or experience being paraphrased and turned into machine-regurgitated answers (which are often wrong because they fail to grasp the nuances involved). “It’s just info.” That’s what people who don’t actually create anything keep saying. They’re wrong. It was so much more than “just info.” It was knowledge acquired through personal experience. It was time spent writing that knowledge in a way that was accessible and understandable. It was all the weeks and months that went into building and maintaining a site to hold that knowledge in wait for someone who might need it. It was years spent learning to optimize that site, years spent learning and relearning with every algorithm change, every new technology, every new online fad. It was my creation. It was my accomplishment. It was my life. It was the food in my family’s mouths, the clothes on our backs, the medicine I need just to walk. It was mine and Google stole it. I am not feeding that evil beast again.
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Jurga
Jurga@FullSuitcase·
@airfrance Your customer support team is kind but utterly useless. They even took the trouble to listen to the recording of the call we had but then lied about what was said and promised. A complete waste of time. So not looking forward to our flight with you next week :(
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Air France
Air France@airfrance·
@FullSuitcase Hello and thank you for your message. Our customer support team will provide you with the appropriate response to your needs. Please kindly click here: WhatsApp ➡ bit.ly/3TC7o3N or Facebook Messenger➡ bit.ly/37vLOFO. Have a nice day
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Jurga
Jurga@FullSuitcase·
@airfrance You cancel a flight leaving us with a mess of having to change road trip arrangements. And when your representative tries to 'compensate' by offering smth that doesn't cost you a cent, you take it away and lie that it was never promised in the first place. Disgrace
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Jurga
Jurga@FullSuitcase·
@busrentdubai As I said time and again (and it’s clearly stated on our contact page), we do not accept guest posts from businesses.
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AAli Bus Rental Dubai
AAli Bus Rental Dubai@busrentdubai·
@FullSuitcase hi Ms. Jurga i have been sending emails to your email, but no reply at all since 3 months. It's guest post / sponsor post in your travel blog
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Mark Sukhija
Mark Sukhija@MarksTravels·
@FullSuitcase No RSS news feed so I can receive updates from you fab blog? Any chance you could turn one on please? Cheers.
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