3 July 2008 - 12:01Links for 2nd July

/Message: Ariel Waldman on One Size Does NOT Fit All - "I for one am going to login to Facebook, Jaiku, and Pownce, and turn off the cross posting from my Twitter world. I am going to keep the Brightkite cross postings to Twitter though, which I think actually makes sense." See, it's a _moral_ thing. Go Stowe

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2 July 2008 - 0:54Links for 1st July

Technovia: Sound and fury, signifying nothing - "I'm just going to stop posting things that I think add nothing. If I have something to say, I'll stop, think about it, maybe post it when I've dug into it a little more. " Excelent moral stance.
Exclusive Peek At Nrme: Location-Based Twitter, Without The Noise - Cool geo-aware iPhone app coming "The service could also be especially useful at public venues like concerts, sporting events, or conferences."
Panorama accused of shoddy treatment of bloggers | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk - "In the sometimes fraught relationship between old and new media, the BBC is the latest organisation to come under the spotlight." Good conversation, made better by the fact that some of the Shiny Shiny crew and Jem Stone (BBC) are all in the comments.

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Hell is other people's status updates, what Sartre forgot to tell you - Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog - By latest Post blog, exploring the fatigue of connectedness. I post it here as unless you are an RSS subscriber the blogs on the Birmingham Post site are somewhat burried.

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Twittering Teddy Ruxpin - I've got a Nabaztag which can speak your RSS feeds to you, but these guys have lashed up a Teddy Ruxpin to speak tweets.

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The Humphrey Awards 2008 - The Humphreys are a competition - run as part of WordCamp UK (Brum 19&20th July) - to find the WordCamp UK's favourite blogs and includes categories for favourite blog theme design, favourite blog content, favourite single blog post and favourite Plugin.

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Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) - Boing Boing - Cory Doctrow on the AP's foolhardy stance on quoting "Welcome to a world in which you won?t be able to effectively criticize the press, because you?ll be required to pay to quote as few as five words from what they publish." Can't wait to see a test c

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Birmingham Bloggers Meet up Monday 23rd June at The Flapper | Paradise Circus - "No agenda, no fixed time (turn up and leave when you like on ?Monday Evening?, just a social ? unless you know/want different." All welcome, just bring a smile.

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The Omni Group - OmniFocus for iPhone and iPod touch - "Using your location, OmniFocus can create a custom list of actions to complete nearby. Buying groceries? OmniFocus can show you the closest grocery store and create an instant shopping list." interesting

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Paradise Circus - "an island of love and friendship for Brum-ish blogging, web and social media types" - a space for organising/talking about/ meetups (and whatever else we like).

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Siobhain Butterworth: Scratching the record and digital footprints | Comment is free | The Guardian - "The most common reason given for these requests is that the offending item appears near the top of a list of search results when the requester's name is put into a search engine."

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