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I think by luck I posted some of the first pictures of Warren Street tube to Flickr. I was getting my hair cut on Googe street when I heard the news on the radio.

If nothing else, the horrible picture of my blisters is no longer my most viewed image...

Update 19:56 on Thursday, the above picture has been viewed 8251 times. How does that work? 8251 times!

Just came across this fantastic open letter to the bombers over at LNRE

And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub.

So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.

Just got this in the mail from Sarah

I have been asked to pass this on, and perhaps you can do the same.

Following the disaster in London . . .

East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston.

The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".

In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.

Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.

For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.

(This post isn't written yet but in the spirit of release early-and-often...)

• Audience-generated content
• Mobile video and photography enables new type of coverage experienbce
• Change too fast for bloggers
• One of the most mind-bending images to come out of yesterday's media coverage (tube, bus, terrorist, bombs etc in case you were on Mars yesterday) was taken by Alexander Chadwick

Quote from bbc guy:

It certainly showed the power of what our users can do when they are close to a terrible event like this
Pete Clifton, BBC News Interactive

The picture I'm refering to is captionned "Passengers evacuate an underground train at Kings Cross (Photo: Alexander Chadwick)"

BBC has a nice little slide show, but as ever, the best interesting, raw, curious (what's with all the intense Joan Crawford headhsots), moving, spontaneous, uneven and constantly growing media is on Flickr (I was watching the "The 7/7 Community (formerly London Bomb Blasts)" group pool but there are many others)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/bomb/pool/show/

More on this when I can take a few minutes off work...

-Dug

[Friday morning] Well, the front of the house is still there, so clearly the bomb on the bus was a false alarm. Still, no harm in being jumpy. I guess we'll be keeping an eye out for abandoned parcels in the tube again. I think once the IRA stopped blowing stuff up we Londoners may have gotten a little lax in that department...

[19:13] Arrive home in West Hampstead just as a rather young-looking Metropolitan Police officer is wrapping copious amounts of "police no entry" tape across my street, effectively barring entry to my house. I drive straight across the (very empty) road and into my front garden. Turns out there's a lone bus parked right across from my flat and the bus driver is being told to "keep walking quickly" down West End Lane.

It does seem very unlikely, but it looks like we might actually have a legitimate bomb-scare in our front yard.

(Clemmie is asleep out of range in the back room and Nicki and Dug are going to have a drink next door)

(although by some perverse arrangement of cat-like personality features, Nicki is insisting on looking out the front)

(more later...)

Several blasts in London this morning.

• Roads jammed up--made it to work driving (partly) on the pavement
• Closest 'blast' (still unknown if bomb) a few streets away in Russell Square
• No news--home secretary due to anounce at 12:15
• Phone lines are jammed--can't get through on mobile or land-line

It's a little scary not knowing exactly what's going on, but Nicki and Clementine are fine.

This is one of those

...and then a guy in a Porsche with his radio hit his horn
and told us the news...

moments.

[11:55] Everyone leaves their desk and heads downstairs to hear the PM on TV

[13:11] Charlotte just wrote in from the US. Glad to confirm friends and family still OK

[13:21] Orange still have nothing on either their UK or global sites

[15:44] Co-workers are being told leave early. Overland train services are mostly working, but no buses or tubes are operating

[16:31] Letter from Mike comes in:

Just wanted to send out a quick email to say that the plan for tomorrow night remains the same, I'll be buggered if I am going to let today's incidents get in the way of us all having a bloody good time! The buses will all be working by tomorrow, and I believe much of the tube system. When the tfl site is back up, I'll look into bus details for getting to the venue and send them out for y'all.

I hope you are all in agreement, and look forward to sharing a beverage or three with you tomorrow.

Hear hear :-)