Robin Hamman and Richard Fair’s BBC Manchester Blog has just been officially wound up as an experiment.

When I first wrote about this I and others were arguing that a culture change needs to come too – and that is what Robin is setting our more explicitly in the key things they have learnt:
1 Being part [...]

There has been a lot of interest in Downing Street joining Twitter. But does it really mean much, or anything, that’s new?

At the moment number 10 is using it predominantly as a means to feed us links to press releases plus the odd Youtube film. Very good.

Within less than 24 hours 178 people [...]

It is becoming downright tricky for the government to get our attention. Not for the old reasons of being mostly boring. Rather because our attention is increasingly elsewhere – immersed more and more in networks and relationships.

What I pay heed to is much more self indulgent now than it was 15 years ago. [...]

Architect and blogger Joe Holyoak has pulled together a conference to consider the future of the city centre 20 years after the Highbury Conference took a whole range of radical decisions for Birmingham. The flyer is here and a booking form (£40 for the day including lunch) for April 14th is here.
Joe and I [...]

Stef and Charlotte on the facebook group raised the question are we meeting this month, so rather randomly (with some confidence that Pete Ashton will be there) I’ve plumped for March 31st (by the way others are able to use the Facebook group to create meetings).

Hopefully two or three of the Brum folk who went [...]

I grew up in Mosley and Balsall Heath. Underage I saw the Beat Support UB40 at the Fighting Cocks. I stopped listening (no buying) after Red Red Wine. But I still care:

Birmingham Post.

Don’t do the McCartney thing please. Write songs about justice (again) please, double please.

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If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Programme Reward Grant (NPRG) – a £10,000 pilot programme – to allow [...]

 

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A Birmingham Artist has released the source code to allow plants to blog.

More accurately it tweets. So I’m following it. No, that’s right.

No I’ve looked too and I still don’t understand.

Via D’Log – who probably does.

Update Tower Bridger Twitters! This I can understand. Thanks Antonio.