bookit.com sux

I recently used bookit.com because the price was $10 less per day than the same listing on hotels.com. That proved to be a huge mistake. The total sale price was misleading and it ended up being over $50 more for two nights. Don't ever use bookit.com, my advice is to stick with better known brands, like IAC's hotels.com. Also a friend of mine swears by the site skyauction. He says it is like ebay for travel deals.

Building Community

here are some tips on building community...
http://fortuito.us/2007/05/some_community_tips_for_2007
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/10/12/10-techniques-to-get-more-comments-on-your-blog/

as an example of getting users to comment, here is a great post where the author shares his recollections and at the end asks the readers to "Share you Apple recollections in the comments." This got far more than average comments.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/05/30-years-of-apple/