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		<title>The Power of the Placename</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 18:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent Local Business Summit in Amsterdam I spoke about my work at the BBC on location services and mapping and tried to make the point that, as far as our users/consumers are concerned, the place name is all-powerful when it comes to identifying location. Other means of identifying location (grid references, postcodes, lat/long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Location Business Summit &#8211; Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No blogging this morning as I was busy presenting a view of location services at the BBC and then speaking on a panel discussion. Thoroughly enjoyable, and the best panel discussion yet according to @uphamb. Follow #locbiz f you want a rundown of events so far. Now back to sitting, watching, listening and blogging. Joel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Location Business Summit, #locbiz – Day 1, 28th April 2010, Amsterdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some highlights from day one of The Location Business Summit in Amsterdam. Annette Zimmermann from Gartner began the conference with some analysis and survey results on the usage of location services. Unsurprisingly it is expected by 2014 that a third of mobile phones in use will be smartphones – i.e. phones capable of delivering location [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Local Social Summit 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesthornett.com/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-local-social-summit-2009.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the first Local Social Summit in London &#8211; a day aimed at exploring the space where local content meets social media with attendees from a range of start-ups, directories, media companies, advertisers and media owners. If you&#8217;re interested in any of this type of stuff then all of the days presentations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect local Media Company in 2014</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesthornett.com/blog/2009/11/the-perfect-local-media-company-in-2014.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&#8217;s Local Social Summit &#8217;09 in London promises to be an interesting and thought provoking day. I&#8217;m speaking in a panel discussion on Local Content &#38; Monetisation although coming from the BBC angle my focus will be more on local content and social opportunities rather than commercial monetisation. Some key questions I&#8217;d like to discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham Local Blogs Wire</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesthornett.com/blog/2009/07/birmingham-local-blogs-wire.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my recent post on Will Perrin&#8217;s Talk About Local initiative, Jon Bounds has pushed ahead and created a Birmingham Local Blogs Wire by feeding a selection of blogs about Birmingham through Yahoo! Pipes. You can read all about the thinking behind the Birmingham Blog Wire here. Robin Hamman (@cybersoc) and I spent many an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cake Orchestra</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesthornett.com/blog/2009/06/cake-orchestra.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever doubted the power of the cake? Here is, to quote, &#8220;A prototype of a musical interface, driven by cakes.&#8221; http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5165508&#038;server=vimeo.com&#038;show_title=1&#038;show_byline=1&#038;show_portrait=0&#038;color=&#038;fullscreen=1 cake orchestra (test) from mook studios on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>Google Street View in the clear</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesthornett.com/blog/2009/04/google-street-view-in-the-clear.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following protests and complaints over the introduction of Google&#8217;s Street View technology in the UK, the UK&#8217;s Information Commissioner has today ruled that it should not be stopped. A spokesman for the privacy watchdog said removing the entire service would be &#8220;disproportionate to the relatively small risk of privacy detriment&#8221;. More from BBC News.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents complain over Google street view cameras</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesthornett.com/blog/2009/04/residents-complain-over-google-street-view-cameras.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another story from BBC News today on the privacy issues surrounding Google&#8217;s Street View technology &#8211; residents of Broughton, near Milton Keynes, staged a protest and accused Google of invading their privacy and facilitating crime. Twenty five UK cities went live on 19th March with the Netherlands version also going live on the same date, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego Brick Stick</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesthornett.com/blog/2009/02/lego-brick-stick.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thornett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t this soooo cool? £17.50 for your 1GB lego stick, and four colours to choose from, green, red, yellow and blue.]]></description>
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