Alternately: Please, please, Google notice this!
I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
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Re: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
#12Will there be a book, and if so, will the book be as interesting as "Danziger's Travels?"
Re: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
#13Will there be a book, and if so, will the book be as interesting as "Danziger's Travels?"
There will be a book, yes... Possibly a couple. And of course it will be interesting. :)
Re: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
#14Google+ is banned by the great firewall of China...
Re: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
#15Google+ is banned by the great firewall of China...
That's what VPN's are for. - At least in this case anyway.
Re: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
#16Imagine if an American said he was going across the "world" from New York to California.
If one were to attempt to "walk across the world", this would be about as close as they could get. :) It makes for a much better headline than "Man attempts to walk across the largest section of the earth that you can." And also, to "walk across" sort of implies you only need to do half of it. I'm too tired to check, but Internet, is there any continuos stretch of land that connects one point on earth to it's polar o…
I imagine you could do slightly better. Maybe from the edge of Siberia to the south of Spain, or Singapore to the north of Norway. Walking to London has a big obstacle in the way, the English Channel. I'm not sure how he intends to deal with that.
Edit: D'oh, you could probably do much better by ending at South Africa.
Re: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
#17Imagine if an American said he was going across the "world" from New York to California.
If one were to attempt to "walk across the world", this would be about as close as they could get. :) It makes for a much better headline than "Man attempts to walk across the largest section of the earth that you can." And also, to "walk across" sort of implies you only need to do half of it. I'm too tired to check, but Internet, is there any continuos stretch of land that connects one point on earth to it's polar o…
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Re: I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts
#18...and his project has already been banned from Facebook:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100125012078853567494/posts/LS9V...
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#19From http://travel.cnn.com/rise-big-unnecessary-crazy-travel-adve... :
Johnson hopes the walk will help create a name for himself in the Internet industry.
He wants to develop cross-platform Web applications that engage nations.
Not sure I could think of a worse way of doing this than spending 5 years hiking across Siberia.
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#20From http://travel.cnn.com/rise-big-unnecessary-crazy-travel-adve... : Johnson hopes the walk will help create a name for himself in the Internet industry. He wants to develop cross-platform Web applications that engage nations. Not sure I could think of a worse way of doing this than spending 5 years hiking across Siberia.
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