Re: [backstage] Tube on Twitter
Mornington Crescent. -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Tube on Twitter
Hang on, are we playing Finsbury Rules here? -Original Message- From: Davy Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 February 2007 22:43 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Tube on Twitter Mornington Crescent. -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Tube on Twitter
At 08:27 + 26/2/07, James Cridland wrote: On 2/24/07, Tom Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. - 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 -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Tube on Twitter
It's coming, by next year apparently... http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/press-releases/press-releases-con tent.asp?prID=58 J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 26 February 2007 09:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Cc: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk; James Cridland Subject: Re: [backstage] Tube on Twitter At 08:27 + 26/2/07, James Cridland wrote: On 2/24/07, Tom Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. - 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 -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Tube on Twitter
And doesn't work underground on the Tube? Despite its name, about 55% of the network is above ground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground It would of course work in cities which allow mobile phone use on their underground railways (e.g. Stockholm). Coming in 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4373015.stm :) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Tube on Twitter
At 10:12 + 26/2/07, Jason Cartwright wrote: It's coming, by next year apparently... http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/press-releases/press-releases-content.asp?prID=58 Or more succinctly http://tinyurl.com/2yx3oa Thanks. Very interesting. Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Tube on Twitter
At 11:04 + 26/2/07, Kim Plowright wrote: And doesn't work underground on the Tube? Despite its name, about 55% of the network is above ground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground It would of course work in cities which allow mobile phone use on their underground railways (e.g. Stockholm). Coming in 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4373015.stm :) In time for London Olympics 2012 then! Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Tube on Twitter
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 Basically, I've launched a little mashup which takes the Tube data, checks it every fifteen minutes and sends any errors to Twitter. You can then subscribe to a particular feed in Twitter and get updates to your Jabber account or phone. It also now means that I am collecting historical information about Tube performance. I have also just published another Twitter feed for the San Francisco BART network: http://twitter.com/bartsf There are a few problems - the key one being the length of each particular update. I'm probably going to write a script to shorten certain words, and perhaps to split up long updates in to two part updates. I'd also like to allow the Web 2.0 user generated content horde in, but I can't do that yet. I'm waiting for the folks at Twitter to improve their API and then I can start letting people generate their own transport delay information. 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. I'd like to do more public transport projects like this. If anyone knows of any public transport systems with XML/JSON/etc. data available about running status, please e-mail me as it takes me only a very short amount of time to do that kind of thing. Yours, -- Tom Morris http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
