• is brum happy ? - Site that trawls the Brum-based interweb, and tries to work out if Birmingham is happy or not - updates daily. There's also a twitter bot to follow.

• Alert: Possibly Related Posts Feature on WordPress.com Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress - "No control. Implied recommendation or endorsement. Inappropriate links. And a lot of confusion for our readers who believe we choose these links or that they will lead to links on our blog related to what we blog about."

• Seven psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts « Online Journalism Blog - "a new raft of complaints as social media addicts adapt to the demands of new technologies and fluctuating social structures." I think I sometimes get twitter rage, but not for those reasons…

Tired of newspapers doing intros to blogging: “it’s sort of like an online diary…”?

Here’s a nice turnaround - Meet the newspaperers -

For those of you who don’t already know, newspapers make up a significant portion of topical written content in the UK and are fast becoming a vital part of the newsgathering process.

A few facts about newspapers
1. Newspapers are actually made from trees.

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4. Newspapers are run like big companies and can employ hundreds of people.

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• blogging brings about BBC action network closure « welcome to voluntary simplicity - "BBC?s action network that previously attempted to get like minded people and groups together, has to admit defeat as bloggers take over. The BBC site has been running for five years but can no longer keep up."

These are my links for 17th April through 18th April:

• Wordcamp UK is coming to Brum - Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008 - leaving Brum bloggers and geeks unfeasibly excited. Sign up, or just have a poke around on the wiki.
• Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb - We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don't have a lot of.

• 27 Thoughts On Blogging For The Artist - 24. You no longer need to live in New York or Los Angeles. See: Hugh.25. Do not work for the good opinion of anyone. Work for joy, wonder and the Lord God Almighty.26. You do not need a signed letter from The American Academy of Arts and Letters to begin.
• MiniTwit - Post to Twitter with iTunes integration. Use iTunes to DJ (or party shuffle). Then never need to be asked "what's that song?" OS X only

• Google Geo Developer series - Loads of instructional video from the Google Geo Developer series

• Yet Another Twitter Badge - Twitter Balloon | korelab - nice twitter badge, must find time to customise one
• TwitLinks: The Techmeme of Twitter? - ReadWriteWeb - Twitlinks. This aggregates the latest links posted to Twitter by tech industry pundits. The end result is a homepage that kind of resembles Techmeme, only without the threading of topics. It may even be the only news aggregator faster than Techmeme

• pubs i am near | tomtaylor.co.uk - "inspired by Simon Willison?s wikinear, it uses Fire Eagle to grab your location, storing your credentials in a cookie. The data is sourced from Open Street Map, which was the only useful source of pub data I could find."pubs