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• 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)

• Don’t Screw Your Partners Over A Marketing Promotion - TechCrunch
  "Some of you may wonder why I’m calling out a company that I’ve invested in so harshly.". Erm, hang on, the other day weren't you 'calling out' people for saying your conflicts of interests compromised the editorial impartiality of the site Mr A?
  (tags: techcrunch seesmic)
• Guardianistas upset by My Telegraph? : May 2008 : Shane Richmond : Technology : Telegraph Blogs
  "When you have an open platform, whether it's My Telegraph, CiF, or the internet itself, you have to accept that a multiplicity of views will be expressed on it and that some of those will be unpalatable to some people". Shane is on the money as ever.
  (tags: mytelegraph guardian shanerichmond)
• Kristine Lowe: Your grandchild: "Did people just sit there?"
  "I've been thinking quite a bit about how people use social media, and how the way they use it defines their understanding of it recently". Kristine pulls together some quotes suggesting 'sit-back media' are the blip, not the norm for society.
  (tags: kristinelowe media future interactivity)
• Ari Melber: Web Journalist Says Web is Destroying Journalism - Media on The Huffington Post
  From the comments: "The Internet is doing nothing to Journalism but forcing REAL JOURNALIST to do their work better than they have in the past."
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism media blogging internet)
• PC World - Business Center: 20% of U.S. Has Never Sent E-mail
  "Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. households are disconnected from the Internet and have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates". Another useful stat to remember about "the people who don't".
  (tags: culture email internet statistics)
• The UK Defence Ministry and public information — Adrian Monck
  "Also released that day was a Board of Inquiry into a Hercules crash in Iraq in 2007...the loss of an aircraft will cost over £30m to replace. Unless you know what a Board of Inquiry is, you might miss it. The site is effectively buried online."
  (tags: mod politics adrianmonck)

• GTA IV about urbanism » Pasta&Vinegar
  "Anyone interested in the relationship between technologies and contemporary cities followed the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. Tom Bramwell from Eurogamer recently interviewed Aaron Garbut from Rockstar."
  (tags: gtaiv cities games)
• Brand Tags
  "The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is". Captures the word you first associate with a brand when exposed to their logo.
  (tags: branding marketing)
• Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web - blog.pmarca.com
  "You don't get lots of flow into anything on the web without having lots of flow out to the broader web. You are compromising your own product to your self-inflicted detriment if you're not making it easy for activity to flow out as well as in."
  (tags: ning google friendconnect)
• Installing Linux on an elderly laptop - Bods's Blog | Planet Bods
  Andrew B inadvertantly illustrates exactly why I haven't found the time or confidence yet to put a working Linux install on my knackered old laptop.
  (tags: linux laptop)
• 27 Resources for Evaluating Blogging ROI - KoMarketing Associates
  'Resources' in the title implied to me that this was going to link to some Excel spreadsheet wizardry, but actually it links out to 27 other articles. Useful list though, with some interesting pullquotes.
  (tags: blogging roi business marketing)
• Realtime Twitter Sentiment - Summize Labs
  Analyses tweets and then grades attitude from 'great' to 'wretched'.
  (tags: search twitter sentiment tools summize)
• Perceptive Pixel: Update | Data Mining
  Has examples of US TV using touch-screen info-matic-o-gram devices during political coverage.
  (tags: touchscreen interface television uselection)