links for 2008-05-12

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[nicharalambous.com » Blog Archive » Metro police breaking the law](http://nicharalambous.com/2008/05/12/metro-police-breaking-the-law/)

Nic joins a growing number of people outing bad driving and parking on their blogs with this article about SA cop cutting up on the road

[Reuters Frees Content with New API](http://mashable.com/2008/05/12/reuters-ap/)

mashabel reports that “In a pretty significant move, Reuters is making its news content available to the developer community through the use of a non-commercial API offering, through Reuters Labs.” – Just signed up so a post soon

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[The Chinese earthquake and Twitter – crowdsourcing without managers « Online Journalism Blog](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/05/12/twitter-and-the-chinese-earthquake/)

As usual Paul has his finger on the pulse of this stuff. Very interesting

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[UK: TimesOnline opens digital archive in beta – editorsweblog](http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2008/05/uk_timesonline_opens_digital_archive_in.php)

It seems that everyone is going open. If Reuters doesnt grab you what about the London Times’ Archve “TimesOnline launched a beta version of its digital archive, opening up over two hundred years of newspaper content online.”

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[Google Earth Outreach Collects Layers Of Cyclone Nargis Effects](http://mashable.com/2008/05/11/google-earth-cyclone-layers/)

Interesting stuff

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links for 2008-05-12

Same as it ever was...

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Quite a lot came through the feed reader today – the increasing amount is begging for a day trimming my feeds- and...

Liverpool Daily post, Live!

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