Went to Twinterval 2008 on Monday at the Match Bar, Margaret Street, London W1.

A good time was had by all – it was good to meet fellow Twitter users face to face.

Also caught up with Mauricio Reyes, who I last met at a meeting of the WordPress UK London local.

Above I’m pictured (some rights reserved) by Paul Parkinson, sampling some of the Czech bottled beer available at the gathering.

• Ofcom Communications Market Report: rapid changes in media consumption habits, but much remains the same [Media Guardian] Ofcom’s 365 page 2008 report digested.
• Taking the shine off: Why blog publishing ‘failed’ in the UK (or at least didn’t create a $30m exit) [TechCrunch UK] Guardian PDA responds with is there any money in UK blogging?
• Why blogs need to be social [GigaOM] Blog = digital life aggregator.
• Putting our hot heads together [A List Apart] How can we transform discussion forums and comment sections from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration?

• The Yahoo demolition derby [All Things Digital]
• Yahoo! search BOSS [Yahoo Developer Network]
• Take your chance to free public data [Guardian]
• More online government innovation [Dave Briggs]
• We all depend on the web working [Guardian]

• Portable Social Networks, the building blocks of a social web [Digital Web Magazine]
• YouTube/Viacom privacy followup (and what Google should do) [Dan Brickley]
• Release early, release often is not as easy as it seems [Chris Heilmann]
• The Clangers’ guide to Microformats [Drew McLellan]

• Jyri Engestrom on “Nodal Points” [Joho]
• BBC Topics: how it works [BBC Internet Blog]
• Design for wombling [Tom Scott]
• Getting Real [37signals]
• Collaborate and connect with Subversion [A List Apart]

• The simple joys of web-scale identifiers [BBC Radio Labs]
• You may not be able to identify each of the 15,000 improvements to Firefox, but you’ll like version 3.0 [Guardian] (Agreed!)
• Integrating social media into a web content strategy [Digital Web Magazine]
• Jay-Z goes head to head with Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury [NME]

• Social networking gets a sanity check [GigaOM]
• Why the new media world looks like a Doctor Who plot, says the BBC [Guardian]
• Go Speed Racer go [Subtraction]
• Origins of the ampersand [Hoefler & Frere-Jones]
• The Ampersand [The Ampersand]
• Choosing the right tool [Stopdesign]

A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken…