If enough vote Birmingham animator Louis Hudson of Dice Productions could win a big stash of cash for this.

Stuff the Oscars, two Birmingham businesses have been nominated for a Webby.  Stef and 3form is being recognised for it’s work on the First Light Movies site, a national film initiative established in Brum.

Thanks Tess and Anthony. Want quick clarification?

Techcrunch has some guestimates from eMarketeer that reckon the number of active podcast consumers in America was 6.5 million last year (who yielded advertising worth $165 million) and will grow to 25 milion in 2012. Now the bold use of future numbers (licked finger in air) is why I’ve always struggled with a business [...]

A while back Antonio Gould sat in my back bedroom and we talked about social media. He’d come round to record some ideas about podcasting for his fifth and apparently final Birmingham made Channel 4 media cast. It is a great listen. Antonio has a clear and enthusiastic delivery, well produced, with loads of [...]

It’s odd that one thing I haven’t written about recently is the Birmingham Bloggers Group (possibly re-framing itself as the social media group/cafe). Perhaps because I have so much to say about it I don’t know where to start – breaking the cardinal rule of blogging – which is to just start, stoopid.

We met for [...]

Walkit.com now covers Birmingham. Type in your start and finish places and it tells you the best route for walking. It reveals how far, expected time at different walking paces, how many calories you’ll burn depending on walk speed and even how much co2 you’ll save if you don’t drive. My place to [...]

I’m enjoying the unravelling social media project that is The Big Picture. I especially like the interest taken in the people behind the pics: art as an expression of who we are rather than an end in itself. Jon Bounds has interviewed trav28 about why he’s taking a photo a day – [...]