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/
