Leave the sleeping bag and mosquito repellant at home, but two camps are coming up that may be worth a look.  Both will take place in the UK, and both have been praised on Yahoo’s Developer Network Blog.

Internet users in the UK who go online and illegally download music and movies could have their Internet access revoked according to plans the government is considering.

A draft proposal says that Internet service providers would have to monitor users who accessed pirated content through their accounts. The government says that plans are in an early stage and it is working on final regulations.

Six million users a year are estimated to download files illegally in the UK and music and film companies say it is costing them millions in lost revenue annually.

First north, then east – from the US and Canada, the YouTube Partner Program has made its way to the UK.

When it comes to money, Brits probably don’t need as much help as Americans; all other issues aside, it’s our economy, more than theirs, that’s heading into a recession.  Still, we think Google’s made a good move by introducing Google Finance UK.

Print may or may not be dying; we’ll save that debate for another day.  What we’re sure of, though, is that online versions of newspapers are doing well, with UK visits to such sites rising significantly last week.

Facebook is being investigated by the UK government over how it manages user’s personal information.

A Facebook user complained that they closed their account but were not able to fully delete their profile has led to the government investigation. The social networking site is being questioned by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

A group focused on British police car crashes has existed on Facebook for quite some time, and a number of the wall posts don’t make it look so bad – the original members (self-proclaimed officers themselves) just seemed to commiserate with one another.  Others created a sort of game about injuries and property damage, however, and not all onlookers are amused.

When Queen Elizabeth’s YouTube channel was unveiled, we thought it was great.  A soon-to-follow channel from the British Foreign Office didn’t seem like a waste.  But there was a definite drop-off in the quality of ideas, and the latest thing – a sort of Internet anti-terror plan – is really raising some eyebrows.

Due to the state of the American economy, we’re getting used to seeing "down" graphs.  Not everything would make a good left-to-right ski slope, however, and a representation of UK Internet traffic to Facebook would be absolutely terrible.

A survey of 12 people is unlikely to accurately represent an entire segment of the population.  Still, British chief information officers don’t seem too excited about Facebook, as a new poll found that only one out of 12 uses the site for business reasons.

Marketers in the United Kingdom say that search marketing is the best way to generate leads.

Advertisers spent 44 percent more on search during the first half of 2007 than they did during the first six months of 2006 according to eMarketer. Search marketing comprises the majority of online ad spending compared to other formats.

Sometimes a report with some important conclusion will come our way, we’ll see what company it’s from, and we’ll then reach for the saltshaker.  Things don’t get much more authoritative than the UK government, however, and this entity has once again advised British schools not to use Microsoft Vista.

Every slow Friday turns into a day for rumors, and as it turns out, this one was also a day for discussing the Yellow Pages industry.  Now something’s come about that combines the two subjects: a rumor that Google will buy Yell, a UK Yellow Pages company.

Twenty million people in the UK used search engines for travel information in the first quarter of 2007, according to a new study from Google U.K. and comScore.

Users on average make 12 travel related searches, visit 22 Web sites and take 29 days from the first time they search until they make a purchase. Forty-five percent of transactions happen four weeks or more after the first search. Time spent online is lengthy allowing advertisers to reach and influence users as they search for information.

This is the sort of thing that I thought we’d wrapped up last week.  No matter, though, as it’s still interesting, and "interesting" is, after all, what Yahoo’s Finds of the Year 2007 were required to be.

Another condition was that the sites be innovative, and a third was that they be British.  This last condition, though a bit limiting, seems fair enough since it’s actually Yahoo UK & Ireland behind the contest.