Just read this:

http://beamends.typepad.com/simons_blog/2008/06/notes-of-the-fi.html

I love the ways bit of social web are now popping up all over the place. Paul Bradshaw alerted me to this Chicago site which also has this Birmingham site as an off shoot – as a means of describing sister cities. Included are some simple audio portraits of Brummies. Yes!

If you modestly define journalism as telling people what they need to know when they need to know it I think the various British Government twitter streams are getting into the swing of that.

This on David Davis and his resignation as an MP from UKParliament (which uses its biog to describes itself as “Keeping an [...]

http://twitter.com/tom_watson/statuses/834846622 

According to the FT the Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham, thinks he may be able to not just control product placement in TV programmes but also on the web!. To quote from Neville Hobson’s blog post (nice spot Neville)
Andy Burnham, culture secretary, said the government had an economic interest in protecting standards in UK broadcasting [...]

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A cracking video made to promote a Birmingham blogging venture – Environmental News Online. The site has been run by a group of journalism students working with Paul Bradshaw and the Online Journalism Blog at Birmingham City University. A month or [...]

On Tuesday I wrote this blog post about the Central Office of Information beginning a consultation on the use of social media and metadata in government. The “consultation” was first spotted by Emma Mulqueeny. This morning the press office e-mailed this response:
“The social media guidelines are aimed specifically at Civil Servants and any informal [...]

About the time we were making this video for Be Birmingham, Oxfam were putting up the one below, which uses examples of people in Birmingham who are cutting their CO2.

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If your taking steps to cut you carbon footprint you might want to register what [...]