Tapping into the JetBlue hoopla, MSNBC travel columnist Christopher Eliiot rsponded today to one Vinit Desai who had sit through 30 hours of delays after his scheduled American Airlines SF-to-Chicago flight was canceled because of weather.

We’ve had a bunch of uploads in the past few days from Overlander TV, aka Mark Shea, who’s created a podcast travel series of his experiences driving through Australia.

Love them for freeing independent travelers with their wealth of information, or hate them for making everywhere accessible to the backpacking masses, the Lonely Planet guides have undeniably rempapped the face of travel.

The Yellow Arrow project is currently featuring two very different approaches to a capital-city tour.

Cross-pond paper The Guardian has formed a new partnership with a language-in-action school for a series of free podcasts to help travelers brush up on necessary phrases and vocabulary before embarking.