Clay Shirky’s very fine blog post on how leaving telly behind might free us to do more with our surplus brain power, time an attention.
“Where do people find the time?”

That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No
one who works in TV gets to ask that question. [...]

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A Clare Edwards tweet alerted me to the video above which is promoting Soweto Kinch’s Flyover Show (May 31st underneath the Hockley Flyover in Birmingham (and its free).  The fact that this is happening is proof of Soweto’s credentials as an active citizen – [...]

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Very good looking site at myturf designed as a means of coordinating volunteer effort in teh city.  I’ll be interested to see how/if it works.

I love a blog post which asks a good question. This lunchtime the editor of the Birmingham Post, Marc Reeves, popped up five corkers as he wrote about how one of his guest (corrected thanks to Jon) bloggers had attracted a good chunk of derision from readers for this post and this one.

So [...]

To read more twitter responses to the very enjoyable and very local live streaming of the election results in Birmingham please look here. I enjoyed the streaming (hosted by Adrian Goldberg) but the text service (link here) was clumsy and the media pack only available as a pdf – which is bonkers ‘cos [...]

I’ll be watching www.birminghamelections.org.uk/ tomorrow night to see how the service, fronted by Adrian Goldberg, delivers coverage of the local elections results.

It’s a job I’ve done myself – anchoring the Birmingham Results for Radio WM and reporting general and local election results for TV and radio. Days on research and spent preparing preview pieces [...]

Students at Frankley High have returned to their experiment with podcasting which I was helping to support last year. It’s taken a while to get back but we’re hoping to create a learning group where those who worked with us last year begin to show the teachers how to use the kit.

We also went [...]

Lolcats iz hair ing.

Hat tip Jemimakiss.