Links (12th November 2008)

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post, largely because I've been far too busy working on this.

To make amends, here's a round-up of recent activity in a more conversational style than the usual list of links.

The beginning of this week saw The Society of Editors gather in Bristol for their annual conference. The local newspapers opposition to BBC plans to introduce video content on 65 local websites across the UK was once again raised by Sly Bailey, although former Trinity Mirror editor Chris Rushton had something different to say. Journalism.co.uk has a good summary on the overall discussion theme of What next for local media?

Moving away from newspapers, Ed Parsons reports on the news that Microsoft's Windows 7 will have a core location API. How long until the question of how to let your digital world know where you are currently located in the physical world is no longer a question but almost effortless?

Still on mobiles, if you have any interest in the collection or use of live traffic data then check out the Mobile Millennium project, an interesting collaborative project taking place in San Francisco involving Nokia, NAVTEQ, and UC Berkeley.

Andrew gives an insight into his election night experience and also posts a recent presentation given by him and Mikel Maron on the Trends and Technologies in Where2.0.

Having previously mentioned the Show Us A Better Way competition it's good to see that a number of location-related ideas are included in the winners. I know I will be using the Location of Postboxes service as soon as it has launched - I still don't know where my nearest box is and I've been living here for 8 months.

...that'll do for now... part 2 coming very soon, promise!