Archive for February 2009
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Follow drinksinreading on Twitter
Twitter me this, Twitter me that. Newspapers’ love affair continues. My non-geek friends now have a Twitter presence, and so has drinksinreading.com.
Drinksinreading.com, a website/social network offering user comments on Reading bars, is now automatically alerting Twitter followers to newly posted reviews (behaving much like RSS). Add drinksinreading here.
I’m told also that work has commenced [...]
Little girl from Reading wins Oscar
After five Oscar nominations over the years, Reading’s Kate Winslet finally fufilled her childhood dream of winning the Best Actress award for her role in The Reader (as I correctly predicted).
At the Vanity Fair party afterwards, speaking to GMTV, Kate impressively mentioned one of my favourite Reading pubs, The Retreat, not once, but twice:
My mum won [...]
Kate Winslet on TIME cover
The face of Reading’s star actress Kate Winslet is gracing the cover of TIME magazine. The words “Best Actress” are printed somewhere above her right ear.
You can read the cover story here.
When will a Reading person next appear on the cover of TIME?
The Guardian looks at Reading
Reading is the latest town to get The Guardian’s “Let’s move to…” treatment. A new location is examined every Saturday as part of the paper’s Money section, with Reading featured in today’s edition.
So what did Tom Dyckhoff say?
Fortunately, the “What’s going for it” bit is four times the size of “The case against”. On the [...]
Reading Twestival raises a grand
On Thursday night, parties were staged simultaneously around the world in “175+ cities“, including London (of course), Jerusalem, D.C, Mumbai, Ankara and… Reading.
Ok, Reading isn’t a city (really, it isn’t), but the point is our town, the digital pearl of the Thames Valley, lay host for the first time to the geeky, global and highly-publicised Twitter extravaganza named the [...]
Flood warnings for Reading area
My blog traffic has gone through the roof today. This is the result of a number of you finding my blog by entering flood-related terms in Google.
For information on floods and your area, updated throughout the day, please visit the Environment Agency website. You can enter your postcode, town or river to obtain results.
Kate Winslet wins BAFTA
A breathless Kate Winslet received the Best Actress award at the BAFTAs, televised tonight, for her role in The Reader.
According to BBCEntsTeam, Kate said:
The girl from Reading will always be in me. These are dreams I wouldn’t dare to dream as a kid.
Traffic lights brought down in IDR junction
A quick word of warning: if you are approaching the IDR/Duke St/London St junction by road tonight or tomorrow morning, you may encounter broken traffic lights.
This evening, I saw the aftermath of a collision between a taxi and a police van. Thankfully, no one appeared hurt, but the traffic lights took a bit of a knock. Ice, [...]
Political activists and councillors who tweet in Reading
There has been much media excitement over Twitter in recent weeks. The T word is rapidly becoming a household name.
It has yet to catch on with local political activists and councillors, however.
A bit of quick research on my part has revealed that the following only are tweeting:
Daisy Benson (CllrDaisyBenson) - Lib Dem councillor
Dave [...]
Road users grit teeth
The story of the moment is the snow/sleet/ice we have been getting.
Councils across the land have been getting a bit of stick for not preparing for the heavy snow showers. I think it’s fair to say that we as individuals should have anticipated this better. Responses to less moderate winter weather in the past [...]
