Archive for the 'blogging' Category

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

If you missed this fine link on D’Log here it is.

A couple of Birmingham bloggers could do with a hand.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | No Comments »

This is what Dave Harte wrote on the wall as he registered to run this years London Marathon.  He would welcome sponsorship.
Stef is hoping to win a webby.  As he put it on twitter:

Vote “Webby!” for First Light Movies in the Film & Video -> Student category http://pv.webbyawards.com/b…
about 1 hour ago [...]

Gapingvoid quote on being a blogger:

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | No Comments »

From here:
“The best thing about being a blogger is the people you get to meet.” I have found this to be true and self-evident. When I was younger, the people who inspired me the most professionally were famous, dead, or both. Since I become a blogger the people who inspired me the most became good [...]

Truth in journalism.

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If I spent an hour on a story I would end up with a ‘truth’ that represented 60 minutes of effort. A week of effort would yield a 7 days of ‘truth’. What the facts mean is always subjective, regardless of the solidity of those facts.

Good journalism chases honesty, not truth. Honesty is a [...]

Birmingham Bloggers I think we have a target:

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | No Comments »

For at least 3 years now Dave Harte from Digital Central has been supporting the digital media industry in Brum. Now it’s time to return the favour.

Dave is running the London Marathon next week. He’s been long on training but short on fundraising. Last year he raised £495 for St Mary’s Hospice [...]

UK Government starts live blogging summits:

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Simon has just started the first official live blog of a UK summit here. Now press accredit a bunch of other bloggers (if you haven’t already).

Birmingham Bloggers have so many pipes have we become craic heads?

Friday, April 4th, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I always appear to be the last person to write about any particular meeting of the Birmingham Bloggers but I had no intention of being the last person to write about monday’s meeting twice! For some reason the material in this post disappeared overnight:

So what was I saying? I think I was appreciative of [...]

Read this please…

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

The West Midlands leads the digital way, well our politicians seem to be up for it. Comment at Tom Watson:
today I am announcing the establishment of the Power of Information Taskforce. I’m pleased to say that Richard Allan has agreed to Chair the Taskforce. Richard has a vast breadth of knowledge in this field. He’s [...]