Archive for April 27th, 2008

Thoughts on aggregators / planets

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Just in case you are unaware, a planet in the blogging context is an aggregation of content from a list of individual sources such as blogs, journals, articles etcetera. Some examples of planets in no particular order:

Planet Debian
Planet Ubuntu UK
Planet BitFolk
Planet SysAdmin

Over the last couple of weeks there have been some heated words on […]

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Harassment of photographers

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I’m getting increasingly disturbed by reports of members of the public being harassed whilst innocently taking photos. I’m going to start keeping a list of links to this sort of thing here.

2008-06, UK — Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile — Yahoo! News UK
2008-06, Washington DC, USA
2008-05-14, Los Angeles, California, USA
2008-05-13, Spokane, Washington, USA
2008-05, Los Angeles, […]

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