Some fun things today:

The Language of Heat the BBC compiles ways to say it's hot in lots of languages.

Participatory Journalism: I like the photos on David Gallagher's Lightningfield photo blog today, and also like the feature he set up to get people's opinions of photo phones, using quicktopic.com.

North Florida town of Waldo is still a speed trap(!) This has been going on for years. This story from Gainesville Sun. (via Florida Blog)

Jules Witcover on Bob Donovan: tribute to a first class old-style journalist (LA Times Washington bureau head for many years...no relation).

Nice commentary on Tim Porter's First Draft journalism blog about how copy editors deal with long names: Schwartzenegger becomes 'Actor' or worse, 'Arnold'. Porter also gives us The Copy Editor's Lament.