Archive for the 'Birmingham UK' Category

Just how good are Birmingham Bloggers meets…?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

This month’s meet. 

www.thericeshow.com
Emma.

Birmingham Bloggers meet 9: September 2008.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Tuesday September 23rd 2008.

PART 1: CAFE AT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD 6.30 PM – 8PM (AE HARRIS Northwood Street)

PART 2 8PM TILL WHENEVER – QUEENS ARMS PUB CHARLOTTE STREET.

This time we are meeting in two places, a show and then a pub. From 6.30 pm we are all more than welcome [...]

Quality newspaper video from the Birmingham Mail:

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

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Why do I like this?

Static shots well framed with thought for the lighting. Simple story, well told by one voice, someone we can relate to. No poor voice over from someone who didn’t get into the BBC because they couldn’t broadcast and equally no [...]

Tooled Up For School.

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

This video appeared on the West Midlands Police Youtube site last week. It is part of the Tooled up for School campaign.

As I write this has been seen a couple of hundred times.  It is a song produced for a dvd which is used in schools to discourage children from carrying weapons.  In it the [...]

Searching Hansard should be part of the citizenship curriculum.

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

Emma Mulqueeny writes that Hansard is cool:
What is Hansard?

Hansard is the edited verbatim report of proceedings in both Houses. Daily Debates are published on this website the next working day at 8am. Find out more about Hansard

Why is it cool?

Because, as Robert Brook showed on twitter earlier, you can do wonderful searches such as this [...]

links for 2008-09-10

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

Whitespace WordPress Theme
Like this theme used on http://dubberandclutch.com/ – why does Dubber have such a good eye for themes?
(tags: looks+good)

Home – Birmingham Live And Learn
(tags: students)

Bloggers, carrots, local government and recycling:

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

A few moments ago I received an e-mail from Duncan Gotobed – he who helped by challenging the Charity Commission to explain their wariness about blogging.  This is what he’s asking:
Have you come across any Local Authorities that are considering using a carrot approach to  recycling rather than the stick approach, which involves bins with [...]

The Daily Mail appears to find comments irritating

Sunday, September 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

The Julie Moult is an idiot business has flushed out the Daily Mail on their comments policy. Martin Clarke, the editorial director of Mail online told journalism.co.uk:
If you want to complain about a story some days after it’s published you have to take a more traditional view of things and write to the editor, the [...]