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Full story: Worry-free congestion charging
One of the realities today of driving into a city like London is the congestion charge, a tax on vehicles entering a specified zone the boundaries of which are clearly marked by signs like the one here. It’s probably largely similar to other cities which operate congestion charging schemes as a means aimed at reducing traffic congestion during certain times of the working day and/or raising local tax revenue (how you see it depends on your own perspective of such…
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Full story: How to automate your copyright year
The other day, I noticed that the copyright notice I display in the footer of this blog still said ‘2010.’ So I dived into the code in the footer template in the WordPress theme I use and made the change so that the copyright year now correctly states ‘2011.’ Then I tweeted it as I’ve noticed many other blogs still showing last year, suggesting people hadn’t thought about it. Earlier today, I had one of those slap-on-the-forehead moments after reading…
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Full story: Top 20 UK tech blogs for January 2011
The start of a new month as well as a new year, and time for a preview look at the latest monthly ranking of technology blogs in the UK. As usual, my friends at European search engine and news portal Wikio have given me a sneak peek at the top 20 tech blogs from the full list of the top 100 tech blogs in the UK that Wikio will publish at the end of this week. Here’s the top 20…
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Full story: FIR Cut: Travel and Twitter
Overflow from FIR #580 on January 3, 2010. SocialTimes: Airlines & Politicians: Wintry Weather Creates A New Use For Social Media Twitter mashup: #uksnow Map The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation: @eurocontrol Download this podcast (MP3, 4.16Mb; length 10:19) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #580: January 3, 2011
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; this is the sixth anniversary show: a retrospective on show #1 from Jan 3, 2005; first FIR Book Review from Bob LeDrew is up; FIR Interview with Joseph Jaffe posted; listener comments discussion; News That Fits: Pew study on paying for content, Chris Brogan charging for blog ideas attracts criticism but is it wrong?, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Confucius and more, Pollstream promo, Dan…
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