We had heard of bloggers bearing witness in war zones (see Where is Read? in my blogroll), of blogs used after the tsunami last year to help the survivors. The lastest avatar of blogs in mainstream news, takes the shape of the fall of Eason Jordan, a CNN executive, who made controvertial comments in Davos, which then found themselves blogged and disiminated on the Blogosphere. The coverage is still quite limited in the traditional media. The Washington Post aluded to it an article and the story just go a slot on BBC radio4's PM programme. It seems to be more or less it. See the story as told by The Australian.
Last night I attended a lecture by local historian Stephen Humphrey who discussed the general history of the Elephant & Castle, focussing more particularly on what he called its heyday (between 1850 and 1940). This is part of a week-long art project ( The Elephant Project ) hosted in an empty unit on the first floor of the infamous shopping centre, aiming to chart some of the changes currently happening to the area. When an historian starts talking about the Elephant and Castle, there is one subject he can not possibly avoid, even if he wanted to. Indeed my unsuspecting announcement on Facebook that I was attending such talk prompted a few people to ask the dreaded question: Where does the name of the area come from, for realz? Panoramic view of the Elephant and Castle around 1960/61. Those of us less badly informed than the rest have long discarded the theory that the name comes from the linguistic deformation of "Infanta de Castille", a name which would have become at
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