links for 2008-05-20

• London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog
  "According to Kulveer Ranger, Boris Johnson's director of transport policy the Mayor's plans for a new generation Routemaster may not happen". Back to the good old days of manifesto promises that meant nothing. Oh, hang on, actually we never left them..
  (tags: conservative labour londonmayor routemaster transport borisjohnson)
• Surface Unsigned are fools » peteashtondotcom
  "Blogs are not lone voices in the wilderness that can be silenced with a nasty email. Blogs are an interconnected conversation and when we start talking the search engines take notice". No good messing with the very online and close-knit Brum community.
  (tags: peteashton surfaceunsigned copyright blogging music)
• Jeff Jarvis: Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine | Media | The Guardian
  "Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter". Not sure when Robin got a job change to 'developer' ;-)
  (tags: jeffjarvis guardian twitter media)
• This sign is illegal in the UK » mediawatchwatch.org.uk
  "A protester outside Scientology’s London headquarters was ordered by police to take down a sign saying 'Scientology is not a religion - it is a dangerous cult'". It is political correctness gone mad I tells you, political correctness gone mad...
  (tags: scientology mediawatchwatch protest censorship)

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