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...

Are Hyperlocals Replacing Traditional Newspapers?

Short piece from Time Magazine focussing on the US story.

The President’s SAVE (Securing Americans’ Value and Efficiency) Award

"In 2009, President Obama called for “a process through which every government worker can submit their ideas for how their agency can save money and perform better.”"

Ideas here.

Where Geeks meet Government

Rewired State.

"Rewired State runs hackdays where developers show government what is possible, and government shows developers what is needed."

OpenlyLocal

More on local spending being highlighted on OpenlyLocal.

Roundtable discussion on civic involvement and local sites

Good/useful write up from a session I went to earlier in the month from Kevin Harris.

15 Ideas You Can Steal From The UK's Best Online Community

c/o Rich Millington - a list of 15 things Mumsnet does well.

Halal Thai in Fulham

@ The Blue Elephant, home of the £30 Sunday Brunch!

Visual Economics

Some great visualisations here:

What BP could buy

Food consumption in America

Republic of Facebook

What the world does online

More Android tips

Health
Assorted, but good
Fun, but probably not very useful
Google's Top 30 apps

Andriod apps for health

c/o Mashable.

Free smartphone app to email you MP

The new app called MyMP is developed by Public Zone and NESTA.

How to Add Multimedia to Your Blog

Useful guide.

The death knock

Moving article from Chris Wheal.