Is there a solution to street racing in Birmingham? Masood Ajaib of the Washwood Heath based community enterprise Commpact thinks there is. He has signed up for an experiment to find a communal way of turning a dangerous [...]

 

 The Track: Landor Street, Birmingham [10:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Congrats to Pete Ashton from Created in Birmingham for winning a beautiful big blogging award from the Media Guardian. CiB is a shared endeavour with Stef and justified a glowing lead story on the BBC Birmingham website which encouraged the beeb to throw out some links to other Birmingham bloggers including this one. Thanks.

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There’s an established link between grime and crime, which is why Kingstanding Neighbourhood Forum is using public money to crack crime one fridge at a time. This podcast and the youtube video you can see here or here explain how the forum has been using £10,000 from an experiment called the [...]

 

 Kingstanding Bimringham and the NPRG experiment on crime and grime [10:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Benjamin Zander, Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, plays the audience at Davos.  The job of leaders, he tells us, is to “awaken possibility in other people”.

Hat tip.

..just say thank you. A lot. And mean it.

Hat-tip.

Tim Davies tells us he’s off to the pub having just finished a substantial revamp of the Hear by Right website. Hear by Right sets out standards and principals designed to help organisations involve young people in what they do and how they do it.

The mapping tool looks promising as a means to [...]

A cheeky site campaigning against extending the runway at Birmingham Airport

This is good. It’s the site created by 3form for Audiences Central as part of a partnership between the BBC in the West Midlands and the Arts Council.
It’s called the Big Picture 2008 and the technical jiggery pokery linking google maps, flickr and the site is dead clever.
So what’s it for? Well on the face [...]