Daylight savings time is pointless. It exists only to keep IT people busy fixing their systems. Ars Technica reports that the recent DST change in the states has done very little. 

Alex Iskold thinks that we ought to use RSS to deliver structured information. This really is not a very good idea. I have posted a comment explaining why. 

Twitter Tube Tracker restored! 

The Twitter Tube Tracker has now been restored to former glory. We may have a few teething troubles, but it should all be in fully working order.

I'll be releasing XML and JSON feeds tomorrow, including support for the Apple Dashboard widget.

As Annie Mole put it, I'm looking forward to seeing how crap the Tube really is. More than that though, I'm enjoy seeing people enjoy knowing about the problems with the Tube and be more efficient as a result.

Public sector organisations like TfL really ought to be providing this data so that people like me can use it. Perhaps they ought to set up a developers network.

Tags: twitter, tube, london, tfl, transportforlondon

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