• I just earned the Pub Crawl Pin on @gowalla! http://gowal.la/r/YJQU #
• looks like the bike rental scheme is going to be popular. The dock on wardour st was drawing a crowd http://flic.kr/p/8o1Bn7 #
• Crikey, is friendster.com still alive? I just got a birthday reminder. Blast from a pre-facebook past! #
• RT @notasausage: consistent HTML5 video player UI for all browsers, with Flash/Silverlight fallback http://mediaelementjs.com (via @mattmay) #
• I can't believe it's not Flash! Can you tell which ads are in HTML5?
  http://gu.com/p/2ttce/ip #

• Pleased to see a new bike hire thing appear at bottom of wardour street. Bikes ftw http://flic.kr/p/8kTznm #
• A few lost looking stragglers still looking for their queen bee after yesterday's swarm was removed http://flic.kr/p/8kiTvD #
• Bees swarming on a lamp post on Wardour Street http://flic.kr/p/8jRYj6 #

Over recent weeks, I have noticed docking stations for the London Transport Cycle Hire scheme popping up all over the place. Coverage in central London is impressive – there’s 400-odd such docking stations in total, ready to serve 6,000 bekes across the capital. The pricing for the scheme is aimed at journeys less than 30 minutes so, once you’ve paid the daily access charge, the first half an hour’s rental is free and you can make as many 30-minute trips between docking stations as you like without paying any more (provided a bike is available, of course). If you want to make longer journeys between docking stations, the costs can mount up to £50 for the day but, given you could cycle from one end of the docking station zone to the other in less than 30 minutes, it really is an unlikely and easily avoided situation.

So the only snag is bike availability in peak times – I’ll be very interested to see how this scheme takes off.
I’m certainly signing up. If I’m ever caught out without my trusty Birdy folding bike, I know how I’ll be getting about!

Thanks to cyclehireapp.com for the map visualisations of bike docking locations data from TFL – the  bike rental map on the London transport site doesn’t (yet) work!

Over recent weeks, I have noticed docking stations for the London Transport Cycle Hire scheme popping up all over the place. Coverage in central London is impressive – there’s 400-odd such docking stations in total, ready to serve 6,000 bikes across the capital. The pricing for the scheme is aimed at journeys less than 30 minutes so, once you’ve paid the daily access charge, the first half an hour’s rental is free and you can make as many 30-minute trips between docking stations as you like without paying any more (provided a bike is available, of course). If you want to make longer journeys between docking stations, the costs can mount up to £50 for the day but, given you could cycle from one end of the docking station zone to the other in less than 30 minutes, it really is an unlikely and easily avoided situation.

So the only snag is bike availability in peak times – I’ll be very interested to see how this scheme takes off.
I’m certainly signing up. If I’m ever caught out without my trusty Birdy folding bike, I know how I’ll be getting about!

Thanks to cyclehireapp.com for the map visualisations of bike docking locations data from TFL – the  bike rental map on the London transport site doesn’t (yet) work!

• RT @LDN: Geeky road sign vandalism http://twitpic.com/25hrn2 (via @owenblacker) <– inspired! #
• Sinking HMS Symbian heading for Android iceberg – Gartner
  http://gu.com/p/2tcgj/ip #
• Can science explain everything?
  http://gu.com/p/2tata/ip #
• David Mitchell on quality journalism & how to keep it going in a digital age (or why paywalls aren't necessarily crap) http://bit.ly/bie4rY #

• RT @gapingvoid: Short but important: "What are social networks for?" http://shar.es/m9Ovu via @herdmeister #
• RT @robshepherd: Just come across this enlightened view of social media used for business. I commend it http://bit.ly/5TUPi <- agree totally #