Saturday, March 31, 2007
Britain's newest Superliner to visit Canary Islands
There's an exciting new silhouette on the horizon, Come April 2008, Britains' newest superliner will emerge, ready to sail the World's oceans, say Select World Travel. Ventura sets sail on 18th April 2008 for her Maiden cruise and, at the end of this article they include the full programme of cruises, many of which include visits to the Canary Islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote and La Palma. Here's a preview:
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3 Comments:
Pamela Heywood wrote (on
April 17, 2007)
Interestingly, commmenting and trackbacks on Select World Travel's site appear to be not only subject to editor approval, but also seem to be broken or made not to function to allow comments.
Lee wrote (on
April 17, 2007)
Hi Pamela
First of all, Apologies, Grovels and certainly no Insunuations that your blog is a splog ( aren't these horrible words, whatever will they come up with next!!)
Explanation: Perhaps my post has been taken a little out of context, and yes I hadn't taken the time to really look into the Wikipedia definition, and I don't think the Word Splog has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary
as yet ( I'm sure it will though.)
I was however just interested following the comments on the excellent Travolution site to see if any Posts from our Blog site, featured elsewhere. I Did state that my post about Ventura featured on your site, but at no stage did I mention that Secret Tenerife had hijacked the post or suggested any potentially libellous content.
My last sentence referring taking an article without even changing any content and passing it off as their own isn't really on, really was in reference to Kevin's (Travolution)article and how another company was using that material.
So again apologies, if you thought this was in reference to yourself, it certainly wasn't.
You have however, bought up some valid points.We are a small Independent single branch Travel Agency, and were looking at a unique angle to promote our award winning business. We started blogging about a year ago, and have won various Travel Industry awards for the innovation of the blog, using content,Photographs from our Travel consultants when away on educationals and also the use of Video, sometimes our own and sometimes from Tour Operators and Tourist Boards. We have tried several Video Platforms and found Travelistic to be one of the better ones. I will be getting in touch with Travelistic suggesting that they also should have a Commons creative licensing scheme added to their system.
At present they only have two systems, Private and Public. Whilst we of course want people to see the Videos and also by using Travelistic it helps point people to use the blog, perhaps a Commons creative licence would be helpful, especially as we were given the rights from the Complete Cruise Solution, to use their new promotional video of Ventura.
We do also have Copyright laws attached to our site, with All Rights Reserved, and so of course we would like it, if somebody is going to be using any material posted on our site, to perhaps get in touch for approval. I think the World of Blogging has many unwritten rules,and perhaps this will change in the future to address certain issues that occur from time to time.
I Would like to take this opportunity however, to Thank you for featuring the article on your excellent site, and with your permission would like to run a post about Secret-Tenerife in the future. ( The Dragon-in-law has just bought an apartment in Tenerife, so am hoping for some great Photos in the future)
Hope this puts this to bed, and Congratulations on an excellent site.
P.S. Hat tip to Kevin for the Phone call allerting me to your reply on Travolution
Lee Harrison
Owner / Director
Select World Travel Ltd
With regard to Select World Travel's comments made at this post at Travolution Blog:
Please let it be known that they are commenting on issues that they do not understand. Whilst there are plenty of so-called splogs (see Wikipedia definition) out there, but my blog is not one of them. I research the web personally to find relevant items that I feel my readers will like to know about. Their video (featured above) - showing a liner that is due to come to Tenerife and the Canary Islands and my blog is clearly about Tenerife - was available for sharing at Travelistic and I have used it with the code provided to the general public at that site. What's more, I have gone to the trouble of following the links on Travelistic to find their site (surely the reason they posted a video there, so that people could find them) and finding the relevant post, so that I could point my readers to it for more information. I have used merely a small quote in one paragraph to explain what it is about, there is a clear link (two in fact) to their site directing readers there for more information. This was a valid blog post, in the manner of millions of valid blog posts, pointing to relevant information. This does not violate their copyright. If I write about someone, using small snippets or quotes, that is legally termed as fair use. The post they point to (the one above) is more than fair use, because I have promoted their article and services, for free. Above all, it was human researched and posted, using my time and energy.
In short, I have given them free advertising and, in return they have insinuated that my blog is a splog.
I shall be expecting a retraction and an apology, because this insinuation is damaging to my reputation and, which I consider potentially libelous.