White people need new trainers too! RACIALIST! :@

Possibly entirely unrelated, but very unusual... there were (at least) three dozen police in Croydon town centre this evening.

 

No signs of rioting or property damage or whatever, though both the shopping centres seemed to be closing early, so maybe something happened/planned inside either/both of those.

TIYF

FT

Hmmm, that page is predicting at "7:57" there will be 100 youths at north end. (or it was a typo and that was 15 mins ago).

Eitherway, sounds like I left before the "fun" started.

You are welcome to read what the Guardian is writing after reading Twitter. I prefer the noise.

You fucking animals!

No I'm not! It's graphi that likes the horses, not me. :P

I want something in the middle. :(

Too much garbage and a crap UI on Twitter. :(

I could take a wild guess, and I will, 90% of the updates on them newspapers live blogs are from reading Twitter.

 

I'd rather curate that information myself.

If Twitter wasn't so utterly shit in every way, and I didn't have better things to do, sure.

Failing that, if there's any papers left with professional journalists, it'd be nice to read polished versions to get a general idea of things.

I don't really get why you think the UI is shit. It's just a stream of information. It's your responsibility to read into it what you think. How would you do it different?

I dislike reading polished version of things now, it's too easy and you rarely get the full picture.

Oh look, your Guardian Live Blog is just linking to Tweets now. At least that's honest.

and you get the full picture from a mass of tweets?

 

I don't think I like the future

I'd say you get closer to the full picture yes.

Do you still have the shop in Leeds?

 

"And now #Leeds...RT@LouEaston Shooting in #Leeds seems to have been confirmed along with a group of about 100 hooded youths in Chapeltown!"

 

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Leeds

Never had a shop in Leeds. I heard that there was a shooting in Chapeltown, Leeds, which sadly isn't unusual. Then a few "youths hanging around" but not really heard of anything major kicking off.

Ohhh, that was Bradford, wunnit? The one with the free beer and tea in it. And insanely large naan breads after.

Yus! That is still there, I was there today. Doing quite well.

You had a shop and gave away beer? Seriously I could work for you :)

I think.. that was for our opening. I don't actually remember the free beer...