Incidentally, I emailed the contact on the “One Day in History” site, but I never heard back from her.

I enjoyed reading your One Day in History post. You raise a very good point regarding T&Cs, which quite a few people have picked up on.

I’d like to invite you to take a look at a new website called “Map My London” which has just been launched by The Museum of London: (www.mapmylondon.com). Map My London hopes to revolutionise the way the history of the city is gathered and displayed.

It would be great if you could take a look at the site and see if you would be interested in getting involved with uploading your impressions and memories of the capital, to help us create an emotional memory bank.

You will be able to upload your experiences about the city onto the Map My London site under headings including “Love and Loss”, “Beauty and Horror” and “Fate and Coincidence”.

The site will support contributions in the form of text, digital photographs, video clips and sound recordings and the best thing is that you will be able to have a link directly to your own personal map to put onto your blog.

If this is something that you think that you’d like to get involved with, please visit http://www.mapmylondon.com. I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the website. It’s still early days and the site will be improved over the next few weeks.

Well done on the cool blog – I’ve got it bookmarked, so you might see some more comments from me in the future
Kind regards
Rax, Museum of London

Thanks for the comment. I agree with your suggestion that they should have used feeds and a special tag, in conjunction with their own input form. And, of course, a considerably more relaxed copyright policy.

I’ve emailed the contact name that they give, expressing my concerns, so we’ll see what that brings.

Phew! I’m not the only one to take exception to the aggressive and inconsistent copyright policy of One Day In History:
http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/10/16/one-day-in-history-not-quite-web-20/