links for 2008-05-20
by Martin Belam, 20 May 2008
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"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..
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"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.
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"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' ;-)
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"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...
Ah, funny! I'm told that, whilst I was away for a couple of days, this little yahoo pipes experiment came up at a pretty high level internal meeting as well.