At 08:27 +0000 26/2/07, James Cridland wrote:
On 2/24/07, Tom Morris
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Hi all,
Ian has been bugging me to delurk, so I thought I'd post something I
put together the other day that should be interesting and/or useful
for the Londoners on this list...
<http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2007/02/22#twitterTubeTracker>
http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2007/02/22#twitterTubeTracker
I developed it because I wanted to scratch an itch - to know before I
get to the Tube station whether the Circle line is running okay - and
because I don't like premium rate text services where you pay like 50p
to find out only a couple of bits (in the Shannon sense) of
information.
This is very cool; though for the Londoners here, you should also
know about <http://alerts.tfl.gov.uk/>http://alerts.tfl.gov.uk/ - an
email/text-alert system run by TfL and BBC London. It's very good:
and is customiseable for your journey times. Emails - and texts -
are all entirely free.
Not to say this doesn't live on Twitter, though.
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And doesn't work underground on the Tube?
It would of course work in cities which allow mobile phone use on
their underground railways (e.g. Stockholm).
Gordo
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