The Thames from Blackfriars Bridge
I have an ongoing fascination with the Thames. The strap to this blog was originally “Tales from the riverside”. And my first proper blog entry was one such tale. A lot of it comes from working in Vauxhall for 3 years and getting to spend at least a few minutes by the river most days.
The Thames is the seam that separates – and joins – north and south London. Through its 15+ urban tributaries all of London flows into it. It’s the biggest single focal point of the city. It’s something with which we [Londoners] all have our own personal relationship, something that we all experience differently.
With this in mind, I’ve been thinking of ways of collating these experiences. A twitter search is an obvious way of doing this but, as is the way with twitter, there’s a lot of noise to the small amount of signal.
I love the simple elegance of what @riverthames and @towerbridge do, giving life to objects by translating data into twitterness. But that’s something different to this.
I also love the idea of someone taking on the mantle of an object and giving it a sassy personality, as @imlondonbridge does. But that isn’t what I’m about either and anyway, @riverthames has started to do that itself.
So my offering is humbler, more human and probably less sustainable in the long term. I’m cherry-picking tweets about the Thames and re-tweeting them as @thamesstories. There are no rules at the moment, other than they’ll be stories, rather than news or informational bits. I might include pictures. I’d like to take this somewhere else eventually, but for now I just want to see where this goes in this format, if it goes anywhere at all.
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