In No Particular Order » sign http://innoparticularorder.com eCommerce, business, publishing, stuff… Ian Jindal’s weblog. Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Social media and moblogging?? http://innoparticularorder.com/2009/01/14/social-media-and-blogging/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=social-media-and-blogging http://innoparticularorder.com/2009/01/14/social-media-and-blogging/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:52:18 +0000 Ian Jindal http://innoparticularorder.ianjindal.pencil.vc.catn.com/social-media-and-blogging/

Originally uploaded by Emma and Lorenzo Wood

Hot on the heels of MySociety’s iPhone app for their wonderful FixMyStreet service, Lorenzo spotted this in the wilds of Shoreditch…

Numbered CCTV is one thing (a la Westminster’s unique parking location references (UPLs?)) but texting incidents is a step further.

The cynic in me wonders if this means that the cameras are not monitored until they get a text?

Thinking further forward, why even bother having a camera: just get people to send in photos by MMS with the reference number of the nearest lampost…

Stand by for a new wave of crime – stealing mobiles of people reporting incidents…

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Couldn’t have invented this – I just wish I’d been the one to find it ;)

 

“When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” So that was what went up under the English version, barring lorries from a road near a supermarket. “

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | E-mail error ends up on road sign

 

Gwych. Rhagorol.

Surely the Welsh Assembly should now take a stand and call for the belated and much-anticipated outlawing of OOO messages?

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