• UK MP joins the blogging phenomenon on a running start
  Tom Brake, Liberal Democrat MP for Carshalton and Wallington, yesterday celebrated the launch of his new MySpace by simultaneously posting his first blog on both http://blog.myspace.com/tombrake, and in the History Matters, ‘A Day in History’ archive.
• Crap Headlines (from North London Newspapers) | LinkMachineGo
  Blog LinkMachineGo reviews a website that collects poor headlines from local London newspapers.
• Techcrunch » Microsoft and Yahoo Prepare to Battle Google
  Increased R&D and improving working perks are among the tactics being used to battle Google’s domination of the online industry.
• CIPR blog workshop
  A blog workshop is taking place in Leeds on Thursday 19th Oct entitled Blogs and the New PR: the next big thing or a pain the RSS.
• MP opts to broadcast her own video clips – The Herald
  Jo Swinson, LibDem spokeswoman on Scotland, has become one of the first MPs to make video clips of her appearances in parliament available on her website.
• UK: Trinity Mirror to expand interactive local and regional sites
  The Trinity Mirror group plans to relaunch its 240 local and regional newspaper websites by the end of the year. The relaunch will concentrate on expanding interactive elements, particularly video.
• IBM breaks ground in Second Life – SL the new internet | CNET
  After attending IBM’s UK labs last month, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM’s VP technical strategy & innovation, said virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games remind him of how IBM embraced the Internet and ebusiness a decade ago.