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Russell Square
Adjacent to one of the bombs. Sealed off, of course.
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Press Photographers
I headed up towards Russell Square, site of the bus explosion, at lunch. It turns out that the journalistic herd instinct was at work, as I found these photographers trying to find a vantage point to get shots of the destruction.
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BBC Reporters Log
The BBC Reporters Log [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659511.stm] is well worth following.
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Yet More on the Bombs
Micropersuasion has more links, and one of my pictures. Matthew Sheffield is collecting news and links here. Jeff Jarvis is doing the same here. The London Metblog carries an personal experience here.
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Desperate for news
London commuters, stranded as the public transport network goes down, cram into Dixons to watch the TV, just to get some idea what’s going on.
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Tube network down
We all knew it was coming eventually. But it doesn’t make it any less frightening when it happens.
cities
Congestion Charging in the Big Apple
John Massengale makes a compelling argument [http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/07/take_back_the_s.html] for the extension of congestion charging to New York: > Why do we allow millions of New Yorkers to be inconvenienced and poisoned by a small number of drivers who would rather
environment
Love Lewisham
I've been testing a new app for reporting rubbish in Lewisham.
food
Soho: Plucked
*I couldn’t do a series on Chinatown without a chicken in the window shot….*
london
Soho: Provocative
Blogging
London Linkage
Who needs a London multi-author blog, anyway? With so many good London bloggers out there, you can pass a happy half hour catching up on local experiences, and you get the variety of different blog designs, too! To facilitate this process, gentle reader, I’ve started linking to interesting London
bloggers
Pro Bonner
Sean Bonner sums up his position [http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/000630.php] on the London MetBlog [http://london.metblogs.com/] issue. Personally, I think the blog has only one real problem: some very weak writing mixed in with some very good writing. That’s an aesthetic judgement, though,