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Is Twitter the new Facebook?

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After signing up for the phenomenon that is Twitter over a year ago, I left it dormant for 12 months but am now warming to it. It's essentially blogging for either lazy or busy people as well as those with short attention spans - I'd probably put myself in all three categories, if that makes any sense. Some have described it as the haiku of blogging. The fact you can fire over a text message while you witness something during a walk/event etc is definitely appealing. I'm unsure, however, whether it's a flash in the pan like Facebook, which I had a very short-live affair with last year.

Beyond the blogging blues

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Having pulled myself together after voicing my blogging blues I've decided on an early Spring clean. Well by clean that means to add some widgets to the site so it's probably more accurate to describe it as a Spring clutter. So I've chucked up a search engine (thanks for the tip Mel) and reinstated a list of sites I like as well as something for all you culture fans out there, lists of books and music I'm listening to.

Sustainability Soon - all ideas received

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Those quick-witted amongst you may have spotted that we've changed the date for the online event, called Sustainability Now, we were originally planning for next month. It's now going to take place on 1 and 2 July. A message will be going out to those of you who've already registered, so fear not. I could use the age-old excuse that it was all down to the technology, but that would be bending the truth somewhat. The event morphed from a virtual fair where users could wander around and visit company "booths" with information on their services and products to an editorially driven programme of events (seminars, Q&As, videos, audio etc).

Weekend Review, 8-9 March 2008

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Turbines are back with a vengeance this week, especially in the Sunday Telegraph. Climate Tsar, Lord Turner suggests bulding more of them in the central reservations of motorways, brownfield sites or other places where there was already 'visual intrusion.'  He thinks the country needs to do more rather than less to cut carbon emissions. His committee is due to report back to the PM before the end of the year to suggest whether or not a 60% cut will be needed by 2050.

Compare green products site

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I was wondering when one of these sites would spring up. Having become increasingly irritated with the slew of new price comparison sites for car insurance, supermarket goods, cat food etc it's with mixed feelings that I see there's now one for green products. It goes by the name of griinu compare and seems to be focused on the domestic consumer market. I discovered it via the usual web-circuitous route of picking up on an article comparing the performance of pv panels in the US.

Virtual event

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Here's a new thing I'm working on - an virtual show called Sustainability Now. It will take place on 15 and 16 April and works a bit like an online conference. More information here. Interested in any thoughts on the content of the show, which will be programmed similarly to a live event, with seminars, audio, debates, surgeries etc. I'll be putting up the programme I'm working on later in the week. You can register for it for free here.

New M&E website

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There's a site just launched called M&E Sustainability, which is a JV between the specialist contracting organisations the ECA and the HVCA (is this a prelude to a merger?). There's some helpful resources on it, including a glossay, and the site is funding a new energy centre being built by the London Southbank University, which plans to open in 2009.

Funny Christmas message

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Just received this in my message box. Seasonal message form services outfit Troup Bywaters & Anders and quite amusing.

Google goes green

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Is it just a coincidence or is Google celebrating the launch of the Building Sustainability site by have a green logo on its UK page? That's the third and last plug for my new channel today.

This blog and Building

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I'm furiously preparing for the launch of the next, to use some fine jargon, 'iteration' of the Building Sustainability micro-site, in which this blog site has a significant home. I'm wondering whether you readers are as aware as I think you are of the fact that this site plugs into Building more directly. Are we comfortable bedfellows? I suppose we (as in my company) are trying to achieve the best of both worlds. Combining a big branded, established website with a more independent blog. It's a bit of an experiment but I hope that I can maintain a balancing act of voicing opinions/random thought with providing more traditional journalistic output on the Building site. I'll let you decide whether it works or not.