Mikko Kapanen and Shauna Magunda are two students at UCE in Birmingham who used their final year project to experiment with podcasting to tell the stories of refugees in the city. This programme talks to them about how and why they did it and also hears excerpts from some of [...]

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Jon Bounds – the man behind BiNS, the chap who put this site together and the bloke I worked with (he did it mostly) on upyerbrum, continue his one man online campaign to show the true strength of this fabulous city.

He has declared July 20th 2007 Talk Like a Brummie Day.
Orlroit bab!
How often [...]

If you’ve been keeping tabs on this blog recently you know that I do love my apple computer and that I’m curious about networks and how networks can accelerate innovation. This weeks cover story for The Economist is “What other companies can learn from Apple.”

The magazine sets out four ideas:
“The first is that innovation [...]

Directgov has just published a survey of what we want from the internet. Below are the wish lists according to different categories.

Apparently motorists haven’t noticed that you can already renew your tax disc online, parents want to watch their children in class (yeurgh) and nobody mentioned sex! Equally the survey seemed to fail to [...]

Just a quick update. Simon Berry tells me that he and his fellow naked bidders for the government’s Open Innovation Exchange has been shortlisted with interviews coming up. It will be interesting to see how far the Office of the Third Sector wants to encourage such “institutional hacks”. 21 groups applied, 4 shortlisted, [...]

Steve Bridger and Ed Mitchell are to begin working on a major campaign about Darfur with Amnesty, Yoko Ono and the music of John Lennon.

The two are planning to extend the benefit of the immediate publicity hit of the Instant Karma album. Effectively whilst artists will re-work John Lennon’s music, Steve [...]

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Greenpeace have just popped this up on Youtube to show how they are still using Apple technology to keep in touch with Steve Jobs over their Greenmyapple campaign. Tom Dowdall, the web editor at Greenpeace International, has just e-mailed me to say they borrowed a headline from an [...]

So make it about them.  Thank you David Brake and Cartoon Bank.