I suppose the key thing is always to avoid sounding like, well, Just Another Ad Campaign—there’s always the danger of a tagline being essentially too cute for words, which gives people hives.

I’d say, though, your idea about emphasizing the local is key. While I’ve been having great fun detailing spots I’ve been to on vacations, as well as places I’d like to go, in ways I’ve derived the greatest pleasure in fleshing out the town where I live and thereabouts—it provides a greater anchoring for the site as a whole to see this elsewhere, I’ve noticed. It’s also a treat to see others who have been to spots I list to start talking about it in more detail.

Completely community-generated travel guide.

with the photos, instead of just a list, but some things have become more difficult, like navigating back and forth between 43things and 43places…

also, cheering on 43places has become more difficult… unless you’re subscribed to someone and you notice they just added a place…

what else, i do love the idea of locals sharing their lore with other locals and with visitors/travelers who want to live like locals while there…

What I tell people about 43 Places is that it’s a site where you can document the places you’ve been and read about places you want to go. Read what other people think of the places you’ve been and discover places you never knew existed or thought of going.

I’m not into the locals focus or the “connecting” aspect. It’s just fun to hear people’s perspectives on the places they love or hate or whatever.

That said, I’ve been motivated to see more of my city because of the opportunity to document the places here. I like this tag line the best: “Live life like you are on vacation.”

It’s a magical island where people from different communities come and share their experiences. You have as much fun here talking about your adventure as much you had while you were traveling. It’s the free flowing thoughts and experiences of people that maintain the essence of this site.

To me 43 places is a living planet.

Your neighborhood…your world…only a click away (or, “at your fingertips.”)

Personally, this site sold itself to me. I didn’t read any of the taglines, and I just wanted to get straight into the clicking on places I wanted to go to and writing stories about where I’d been. I didn’t read any instructions pages, I just discovered things along the way – let’s face it, who reads the instruction manual for their new DVD player when they can have much more fun pressing random buttons till it either works or explodes.

Since for me it was about escapism, the tagline ‘where would you rather be than here?’ might have been approriate :P

I agree: This site sells itself in a BIG way. Maybe a simple banner that users could get for free to use in emails or on their site?: “On more great thing to do today: Visit www.43things.com” I will be the first to use it.

Romulus pretty much summed up the best tagline for the masses.

What I tell my friends: it’s the ‘wiki’ (or the build-your-own encyclopediae, to avoid trademark issues) for travel geeks. And this works every time.

Then again, almost all of my friends are geeks. And I mean that with love.

I explain it to my friends as a way to talk about and learn about places as well as connecting with other people, because I’m fascinated with both aspects.

I first got introduced to the 43T world through 43places, and yeah, I liked being able to list ‘I’ve been here, I’ve been there, I’ve been there,’ I really started to enjoy the site when I realised there were stories and memories and secrets I could share about places that no one else had written about. I am enamoured of the idea of place right now anyway, especially after having dabbled in the Toronto world of streetcar parties and ‘City Idol’ competitions to pick city council candidates by places like newmindspace and publicspaces.

I have really enjoyed, however, connecting with other travellers and mappers not just of places, but of themselves. There are sooo many people on here I’ve engaged just in short electronic conversations with but come away with ideas to mull on and ruminate for days and weeks. I think it has the potential to be these things, and though the Edmonton users are few and far between as yet, I would love to be able to meet more people from my hometown through this site and engage in the same conversations we’re having here in the real world.

You goddamn lucky Seattle bastards. You don’t know how good you have it.

I really like the way the profiles are looking. Making it easy for regular folk to add thier places, things and people is a great start to getting traffic…word/links will spread!

A user-driven living encyclopedia of people, places and things.

(evolving instead of living could work too)

Cities. Stories. People. Things.
What are your 43?

Travel Cities. Hear Stories. Meet People. Evolving Things.

Your cities, your stories, your people, your things. What are your 43?

heck it’s already in your code:

43 Places
I want to go here.

43 Things
I want to do this.