• 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).

• 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."

• Official Google Maps API Blog: geo search 2.0: Data In, Data Out - "Geo Sitemaps: Sitemaps are a protocol that bots use to index content from websites. Last year, we announced the ability to include KML/GeoRSS files in regular sitemaps just like a normal web resource."

Tweetmeme was one of the first services to check Twitter for links, and collect popular ones — sort of an automatic Digg. It’s been a noisy, if good, way of seeing “what’s hot right now”. But today, most of the links were like the one above.

Maybe we’re seeing some of the reason behind all those spammy twitter acounts?

Twitterfone is a new (beta) service that intends to let you tweet by phone — set yourself up and when you call a (national rate) number and leave a message it should transcribe and tweet it for you. I’m having a go:

I said: “Is twitterfone capable of recording and transcribing a Brummie Accent?”

Twitterfone tweeted: “”It’s just a turnkey voice recording transcribed in the boomy (ax?)”  — you can listen to the audio on their site, I’m not sure the line was great but I think they should have got “twitterfone” at least.

I’ll keep trying, if you see garbled nonsense in my twitter stream bear with me, I may not be drunk. reQall (the other voice to web service I’ve tried recently - it does calendar entries, notes etc) seemed to fare better.

• FAVRD « Twitter Apps - "If you see Twitter as a venue for public relations or marketing, or as an audience eager to hear news of a post on your ?blog?, ? or if you consider yourself a web strategist, ?it?s very unlikely the things you say on Twitter will show up here

I’ve been thinking some more about the whole, information overload, autogenerated echo, crossposting thing.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t want RSS feeds aggregated for me on yet another web service, I don’t want every feed from every person and have to filter them out (and for duplicates). In short I want all my information in one place, custom search feeds and the like as well as people’s RSS, news as well as flickr tag feeds.

I like the Google Reader experience, I like that it’s in sync across my laptop, my phone, other computers. Google Reader could blow FriendFeed and others away if it implemented a few new features.

Here’s my new feature wishlist for Google Reader:

• The ability to filter feeds as the come in (by location would be great, I have a lot of searches for “Birmingham” and only want the UK versions).
• The ablitity to remove duplicate items from different feeds (and chose which “original” version remains). Two examples: blog/news results in my search feeds when I already subscribe to the originating feed. Also removing auto generated posts: twitters in friends’ Facebook statuses or “daliy links” posts in blogs when I already subscribe to the del.icio.us feed.
• Filters to “mark as read” posts (similar to GMail). By tag would be fine — Google Reader’s search feature is brilliant (allowing you to seach within everything that’s come through), there are things I’d like to be able to search (obsure news feeds, heavy feeds like Digg content) but I don’t want to have them as outstanding posts to be read. You’d be building up your own subset of the web.
• See other people’s notes (if shared of course) — the new notes feature is great, you could have a conversation with the notes if you could see other peoples’. A little like the “comment on anything” stuff that people are hot for on FriendFeed.

• emergent game «?» First Reconnaissance Assignment - emergent game is an art project/game where people chose to be sapiens or ludens - it's based around twitter and other online communication. This is how the ludens reported on their world.

I’ve had a lot of comments recently, mosty from this girl (using various names). While Flickr respond quickly to spam reports (much more quickly than any other customer service requests) that’s not really the point. There must be something they can do to stop registration of these spam accounts - maybe not allow people to comment until they’ve uploaded some photos?

• The Churner Prize on the BBC news site reprinting AP stories almost verbaitim - Now there?s nothing wrong with the BBC?s churn job per se. The facts are there; the story is told; the reader is informed. ?Here, it?s just a reprint. On the web. Pointless. Next time, just link.