Seasides and short haul hotels (c/o Guardian)

Few tidbits from the Guardian travel section over the weekend:

Britain's glorious seaside kitsch Crabbing and candyfloss, garish graphics and 70s pop, caravan parks and pebbledash and crumbling piers – oh, and fabulous views. Our writers describe what a great British seaside holiday means to them.

The 20 best short-haul hotels.

Ten jewels in Britain's coastal crown.

Social entrepreneurs in Big Society

Background.

Links to:

Update.

CHISEL kids - CHISEL is an acronym for Crime prevention. Health & personal safety, Identity awareness, Sports & fitness, Education support, Lifeskills & mentoring and are the key objectives of the programme.

Pinkstinks - a campaign and social enterprise that challenges the culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls' lives.

Mapping for Change - an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication.

Ganapati, London SE15

Good review in the Guardian. And local!

Creating community websites with platforms other than WordPress

Useful post from Nicky at TAL.

The Tuttle Club

The Tuttle Club is a loose association of people finding a way of working better together both online and off-

There's no need to sign up - everyone's welcome at our Friday morning meetups. They run from 10am to midday at the Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, London WC1X 9NG.

DIY data store for your town

Will Perrin's slides which includes some of his own experiences in KX.

Time Magazine's Top 50 sites of 2009

Here's the list. Sadly no comment on each of the sites, or any categorisation. One for a rainy day...