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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 – [...]

 

 Soweto Kinch podcast on the Grassroots Chanel from October 2006 [11:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 [...]

Update on ranger Leyian who was shot: In total they gave him 6 pints of blood, and are keeping him under observation in case of infections.
That’s the latest tweet from the Mara Triangle on twitter and it illustrates some simple principles of good use of social media for charities and non for profit organisations.

The twitter [...]

Lolcats iz hair ing.

Hat tip Jemimakiss.

Since the last time we got together at the end of March a number of folk have arranged smaller meetings. This is intended to be the monthly main session. Al at Rooty Frooty in the Custard Factory is happy to stay open again for us, this time 6pm to about 9pm on Tuesday April [...]

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This Youtube channel is my idea of good. A series of cleanly made but short (typically 3 mins) videos on personal experience of discrimination and reflections on human rights. The film above is from Michael Etkind, who survived a Nazi concentration camp. [...]

Welcome back to my surprisingly irregular smattering of random links called Monday Mentions.

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Ofcom on social network users in the UK (hat tip):

Alpha Socialisers – mostly male and under the age of 25. They use the sites in short bursts to flirt and meet new [...]