Produced in partnership with Lonely Planet, BBC Travel brings the reporting prowess of both companies to one section. In it, you’ll find helpful articles about everything from making expense reports more efficient to the world’s greatest guilty pleasures, all beautifully formatted for Flipboard.

If that whets your wanderlust, tap the red ribbon to head over to our Travel category for many more recommendations, including National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Fotopedia, Budget Travel, Fodor’s, Frommers, and travel bloggers writing, eating and photographing their way around the world.

What’s your favorite travel magazine, blog or photographer? Tell us at featured@flipboard.com.

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As the Year of the Dragon kicks off, we wanted to offer a gift to Chinese readers. We’ve added dozens more reading recommendations to our Content Guide for China, but also we’re rolling out two new Content Guides for users in Taiwan and Hong Kong today. All three Guides feature special feeds in honor of the Chinese New Year.

Anyone who has their iPad or iPhone region set to Taiwan or Hong Kong will automatically receive the local edition of their Content Guide when they tap on the red ribbon in the top right corner of the app. To switch back to the previous guide, set your device’s country setting to United States. (Soon we’ll be making it easier to browse recommendations for different countries within Flipboard itself.) Readers in China can download Flipboard’s unique Chinese app here; people in Hong Kong and Taiwan can use the worldwide edition.

If there’s something you think should be featured in any of these Guides, please send your suggestions to featured@flipboard.com. And of course, let us know what you think of these new additions.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

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You’re a philosophy major in college who goes on to get a law degree in 1992 from Stanford University (where you were class president and senior editor of the Law Review.) What’s your next act? If you’re Christy Haubegger, you go on to found Latina, a magazine aimed at bi-lingual, bi-cultural women in the U.S.

Haubegger, adopted by an Anglo family but born to a Mexican-American woman, launched the magazine in 1996 in the U.S. as a vehicle to celebrate Latina role models. With 2 million readers, it’s now the largest magazine edited by and for Latin women. Its mission: to “entertain and inspire women with award-winning content that covers Latin culture, style, beauty, food, music and celebrities, and to create products and services that always have, at their core, the real Latina woman—her unique needs, her unique lifestyle.”

We’re psyched that Latina launches today on Flipboard. Tap here to browse the magazine, and if you like it, add it to your Flipboard by tapping the +.

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The Golden Globes air tonight, officially kicking off the entertainment industry’s awards season. Tap on the badge below to get the latest updates, photos and videos from the always lively event, including behind-the-scenes footage and special reports from Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, The Hollywood Reporter and many more sources. As the awards season progresses, the magazine will morph to cover everything from Sundance to the Grammys to the Oscars, so add it to your Flipboard today.





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iPhoneography is everywhere these days — and looks particularly beautiful on Flipboard. Tap on the red ribbon for a selection of blogs and photos showcasing this new medium in all its forms, from Instagram’s most popular photos to P1xels at an Exhibition’s treatment as a true art form. (Read our interview with P1xels’s Knox Bronson for more about what makes a great iPhone photo, the best apps to use, and the art world’s response to all this.) We’ve also got a new iPhonegraphy section, which combines many of the medium’s authoritative sources in one magazine. Tap the badge below to browse it, and add it to your Flipboard for future reference.

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Knox Bronson knows iPhoneography, having staged the first-ever gallery show of iPhone photos at the Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley in 2009. Now he’s the proprietor of “P1xels at an Exhibition,” a hub that takes iPhoneography as seriously as fine art. Artists who hope to make a living from their craft display their work here and Bronson helps them navigate this fledgling art world. We asked Bronson to discuss what makes for a great iPhone photo, must-use apps, and where this medium is headed…

What gave you the idea to curate an iPhoneography exhibition?
It was the work of Maia Panos, who, with some very limited apps, was creating some beautiful work in late 2009, very different from what I was doing with the same tool set. Prior to seeing her work, I wasn’t sure if my intuition that we were working in a new medium, a truly new art form, was correct. Her amazing work confirmed it and everything since has reinforced that proposition.

As luck would have it, December of 2009 was a most serendipitous moment in the evolution of the medium: the tsunami was just beginning to swell; the art form had just emerged, a number of artists had broken out, each with his or her own unique vision, and iPhoneography was exuberantly bubbling up into the Zeitgeist. Very lucky for us.

What was the reaction from people who heard what you were doing?
From the beginning, reactions have been varied, especially in a given milieu: corporate, social, or institutional. I could share numerous examples of the gamut from disdain, dismissal, and ridicule to excitement and enthusiasm. One editor of a well-known photography magazine wrote off the whole movement, referring to our artists as “push-button Monets.”

I’ve had people laugh in my face when I told them what I am doing these days. The funny thing is how quickly they change their tune once they actually see the work people are creating.

People love the untrammeled beauty of the work, free of post-modern art theory and photographic dogma (and PhotoShop). I can also state without qualification that the purity of the medium, i.e., no off-device editing, is important in the public’s appreciation of the art form.

But it is still an underground art form, as far as the art establishment is concerned.

Who are your fave iPhoneographers?
This is such a difficult question. There is just so much talent out there. From the very beginning, I loved the work of Maia Panos, Andrea Mdos, Jose Chavarry: they are the Beatles, Stones, and Dylan of iPhoneography in my opinion. The whole roster of visionaries on p1xels.com. Ramona Gillentine. The nudes of Max T. Frame and Butow Maler, of course!

What are the best apps for iPhoneography?
When Michele Reiner and Jamie Lee Curtis asked me for a list of apps a couple months ago, I tapped a couple of my artists for input and this is the list we came up with: PhotoFX, Touch/Retouch, Photoshop (paid) Noise reduction, Perfectly Clear, Noir, Camera+, Filter Storm, BlendPhoto (or DXP which I used a lot), PhotoDesk, Dynamic Light, BlurFX, Juxtaposer, ToonPaint, Iris, Snapseed, PicGrunger, PictureFX, Decim8. You could spend years working with these and never run out of new aesthetic possibilities.

I still like LoFi and Tilt-shift Generator, which are really old school and still have their place at times. There are so many apps and if you ask any artist, at least any artist I care about, he or she is going to give you a different list as his or her basic tool kit. Most artists on Pixels use five to 10 apps on any given picture.

What makes a great iPhone picture?
The same things that make a great painting or photograph: subject, composition, color, texture, form, light, shadow, execution and technique.

All great iPhoneographic images are about something and then also about something else.

If you have an image which is just about something (as I find most “street” iPhoneography to be), it’s boring. And if it’s just about the something else, it’s irritating.

So you have to have the something and the something else in the same image. The iPhone is an absolutely marvelous instrument for creating images with both elements. We start with a photographic something and then, through app-ing, we add the something else.

I used to say “App that bitch ’til it sings” and I still do, but I also caution against over-appage with “App as needed.” In other words, app as the picture tells you what is needed to bring forth your vision and truth. I write a lot of artists and ask them to back off a particular app, they’ve just gone too far with it, out of insecurity, or not trusting the image enough. An adjunct to this is “one cannot app a bad picture into being a good one.” But it is a phase I have seen almost everybody out there, including myself, go through.

The best iPhoneographic artists pay attention to details. They notice every pixel. There are no distracting elements, nothing to pull the eye away from what the artist deems important; the app-ing is perfectly appropriate for the image, whether it’s a desaturated B&W or a vibrant explosion of color or a muted vintage countryscape. Most of my favorite artists take real time working on their images, once they have a picture worth working on.

As Henri Matisse remarked, “Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.” The iPhone is a very limited medium, with the optical sensor “lens,” the tiny screen on which to work, the often buggy apps, which is certainly part of its great allure for me and our community. And that is where the beauty originates.

You can see Bronson’s own iPhone photos at http://www.p1xels.com/artists/knox-bronson/ or tap on the button below to view all P1xels artists on Flipboard.

Each year, a small city—some 140,000 people—descends on Las Vegas for the week-long Consumer Electronics Show not two weeks after Christmas. It is a gadgeteer’s dream: This is the place to find the newest digital cameras, smartphones, HDTVs and gadgets so variegated and numerous as to define categories not yet invented. But it is also a convention goers’ nightmare, with long lines, loud noises and all the other jarring stuff that goes along with being one of the biggest trade shows in the world.

Good news, then, for you: Starting today and for the rest of the week, we’re bringing CES to you in a special section—Flipboard CES. Our section is hand curated daily and comprised of the best tech content from our partners and friends, including Engadget, Wired, All Things D, GigaOm, TechCrunch, Popular Science, The Verge and many others. If you like consumer tech, you’ll love it. To check out the section, tap on the badge below and hit the + to add it to your Flipboard for fast access to CES news.





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Tap the button below to add Election 2012 to your Flipboard. The special section is curated by our editors and includes comprehensive articles from our partners, such as USA Today, AP Campaign 2012, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic and others—as well as the most interesting user-generated Tweets, photos and videos we can find. Starting with New Hampshire, we’ll be at every primary and follow the race to its finish until Election Day.





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Digital photography + social media give an instant window into the world around us. For your weekend, we’ve compiled some Flickr sections showcasing the beauty and awe-inspiring power of our planet.

Digital Underwater Photography– Over 2,000 photographers from around the world contributed these gorgeous images from beneath the sea. You won’t believe the colors and otherworldly creatures.

U.S. National Parks — Watch snow start to creep into places like Bryce Canyon and the Sierra Nevadas; see plants, waterfalls and majestic boulders from others’ eyes. The occasional bison wanders by.

Weather Photography — Ominous clouds, purple skies filled with lightning, angry seas — weather watchers capture their surroundings.

EarthShots.org — Earth Shots is a Photo of the Day contest celebrating the diversity of our planet. This is the pool of submissions from photographers vying for the daily glory bestowed by the site.

Please share your favorite nature photographs and feeds with us by tweeting to @flipboard.

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It’s a long road to the White House, but for Flipboard users, the Associated Press will be on hand to follow America’s 2012 presidential election at every step along the way. Hundreds of newspapers and broadcast stations around the world rely upon the AP to provide authoritative coverage of breaking political news, and now you can too, via the new AP Campaign 2012 section we’ve launched on Flipboard.

Inside you’ll find up-to-the-minute campaign dispatches, insightful political analyses, front-row video, and gorgeous photographs curated by the AP’s seasoned team of journalists. The AP’s coverage gets underway with the Iowa caucuses on January 3 and continues during state-by-state primaries throughout the spring. Democrats and Republicans will gather for their party conventions late this summer, before autumn’s run-up to the general election on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

Tap on the button below to browse the AP’s Campaign 2012 section, then tap the + to add it to your Flipboard. There’s no better way to stay on top of the campaign that lies ahead.

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