We sent the likes of Martha Stewart, Tom Clancy, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Krakauer, Lyle Lovett, Jay McInerney, Stefanie Powers, Tom Robbins, Ziggy Marley, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Princess Fikre-Selassie, Nathan Myhrvold, Shari Belafonte, and many, many others to the far-flung and outrageous (Dr. Ruth to the Islands of Love). But, it didn't make money, or at least enough, and after a good run it was morphed into another Microsoft property, a nascent on-line travel booking site that would become Expedia. I became Expedia's editor-at-large and continued to travel and upload stories and media from all manner of coordinates.
And I launched more sites that took advantage of the technology and talent and delivered compelling travel interpretations from scores of writers in the field: Well-Travelled for Slate; Great Escapes for MSNBC, First & Best for MSN, Richard Bangs' Adventures for Yahoo, and
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