Traveling in time...

Welcome on board! Unfortunately today we won't be able to realize our standard daily flight, because of extreme weather conditions. But who needs an airport or an airplane to fly, when we have the Web? So, breaking every rule of logic, today we will be traveling in time using as a vehicle Harriet's blog post Daylight Saving Time: where to watch the clock.

Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday at 2:00 a.m. and we will all have to set our clocks one hour back. Influenced by that Harriet wrote a story at msnbc.com about How time flies! Where to see the world's clocks.
The story talks about clock-worthy cities and Harriet is sharing some of this information in her Stuck at the Airport blog. Some of the featured clocks are Marriott's Custom House in Boston, the information booth clock at New York City' s Grand Central Station, and clocks from the Bily Clocks Museum, in Spillville, Iowa. In Bily Clocks Museum there are 43 carved clocks, made by Joseph and Frank Bily in the past 45 years. The Museum's clocks have a big variety of themes ranging from art, religion, history and culture, while some of them are more than ten feet tall.

A very interesting video is the one showing the mapping project that was done to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Prague's astronomical clock.



Harriet today in her post didn't actually talk about an airport story. Nevertheless, she didn't avoid posting. For me, a good blog should be published regularly. Having a daily interaction with your followers makes them want to come back and check frequently for new posts. It also shows commitment from the blogger's part.

I also appreciated the fact that Harriet let us know that she was actually revising the story she wrote for msnbc.com. Through the link How time flies! Where to see the world's clocks she gave us the opportunity to go to her original story and take a look at it. Using links in a blog gives the blogger credibility. Links are the respective sources or footnotes of a printed article or book. They are probably even better than sources just because they are so convenient for the reader. The only thing you have to do is click on them. I personally click on links much more often than I look for a footnoted source.

There is no landing process this time... Or maybe there is? Traveling in the Web can make you tune out of everything else that is happening around you. That is, I believe, a different king of traveling.

Hope the weather will get better and that we will see you again at one of our next flights.