Video: TED Talk about 5 million books and Google Labs' Ngram Viewer...

Fascinating talk about by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel about the many surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words and how you can search for words and ideas via Google Labs' Ngram Viewer.

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1.The Dangers of Outsourcing Your Freelance Work

2. Ten things every freelance journalist should know

3. 100 Questions to Help You Write, Publish, and Sell Your Ebook

4. Time Management For Freelance Writers

5. How to Master the Craft of Writing

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Laurie Gough will conduct Travel Writing Workshop at the 2012 San Miguel Writers' Conference

Laurie Gough, author of Kite Strings of the Southern Cross and Kiss the Sunset Pig, will be leading a ninety minute 'Introduction to Travel Writing' workshop at the 7th Annual San Miguel Writers' Conference.

Gough is just one of the 42+ great speakers lined up for this bilingual conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in February 2012.

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1. The Art of Nurturing Your Writing Ideas

2. So You Want to Be a Pro Blogger in The Travel Business

3. Why Freelance Writers Should Self-Publish

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Flight Centre Uk Seeks blogger for a G Adventure in India...

Fancy a trip to India?

Flight Centre UK has teamed up with adventure travel company G Adventures and is looking for a travel blogger to go on their Golden Triangle in India tour.

In return for the trip, this travel blogger will have to submit 3 blog posts to Flight Centre UK after the trip about their experiences. Plus, during the tour, they would be required to send a minimum of 2 tweets and 2 photos per day.

How to enter...

Submit an article about a great travel adventure that you have experienced ( in no more than 500 words) to Jayne.gorman@flightcentre.co.uk by 6pm GMT Monday 14th November and Flight Centre UK will publish their favourites on their blog. The winner will be chosen by the Flight Centre Global Social Media team and announced via their social media sites by Wednesday 30th November.

For more information click on this Flight Centre UK page.

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Travel bloggers talk about press trips...

David Whitley, aka the Grumpy Traveller, muses about what the perfect press trip would look like

Find out the secret sauce for invites to press trips or fam tours over at Sheila's Guide to the Good Stuff

The Quirky Traveller offers 10 questions & top tips before going on a Blog Trip

Runaway Juno discusses how to score and execute a press trip

travelllll.com posted about how to pitch for free transport and accommodation

PlanetD has written A Travel Bloggers Guide to Press Trips

Pam Mandel of Nerd's Eye View is running a informal facebook survey about press trips

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