Click here for a fine series of posts on how some news is now being provided by people writing things called newspapers.  Hat tip NUJ Newmedia blog.

Since July 2007 my friend Pete Fletcher has been keeping a record of each of his sneezes but waited until today to tell me:

http://sneezecount.joyfeed.com/

He offers these thoughts for anyone else embarking on a counting project:
When choosing something to count, it is important to realize that some things work better than othersc. Sneezes work, but other [...]

Since the last time we got together at the end of March a number of folk have arranged smaller meetings. This is intended to be the monthly main session. Al at Rooty Frooty in the Custard Factory is happy to stay open again for us, this time 6pm to about 9pm on Tuesday April [...]

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This Youtube channel is my idea of good. A series of cleanly made but short (typically 3 mins) videos on personal experience of discrimination and reflections on human rights. The film above is from Michael Etkind, who survived a Nazi concentration camp. [...]

Welcome back to my surprisingly irregular smattering of random links called Monday Mentions.

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Ofcom on social network users in the UK (hat tip):

Alpha Socialisers – mostly male and under the age of 25. They use the sites in short bursts to flirt and meet new [...]

If you missed this fine link on D’Log here it is.

A month ago Eccentric City put up the offer of a £1 commission and I wrote this – saying I’d pay anyone who came up with something a tenner – really just meddling with being a patron of the arts…

Well Pete Ashton tells me that Simon Raven came up with this remarkable film:

You need to [...]

This is what Dave Harte wrote on the wall as he registered to run this years London Marathon.  He would welcome sponsorship.
Stef is hoping to win a webby.  As he put it on twitter:

Vote “Webby!” for First Light Movies in the Film & Video -> Student category http://pv.webbyawards.com/b…
about 1 hour ago [...]