While browsing around Youtube I came across this great video tutorial from Lee LeFever of TWINF and the previous RSS tutorial, who put this together last November near their end of their own year long adventure.

Lee walks you through the essentials you’ll need, such as a digital camera and a laptop, along with the various websites he used to publish his online travel journal, like Flickr, Drupal, and Bryght.

This option for a self-managed travel blog is for the tech-savvy, as it requires a certain amount of web knowledge and initiative to learn how it all works. If you’d rather keep your travel blog with a travel community instead, here are 5 good reasons.

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Ian MacKenzie

Ian MacKenzie is the founder and former editor of Brave New Traveler. He is a now a contributing editor to Matador, and the network's architect. Ian is also a documentary filmmaker, with his first feature (One Week Job) released in 2010.

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    Hi,

    Thanks for this – about to go off backpacking for a year and will defo be using some of the ideas here.

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