Archive for the 'freewifibirmingham' Category

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 [...]

Brum Bloggers Meet. Monday March 31st - Venue Suggestions please

Monday, March 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Stef and Charlotte on the facebook group raised the question are we meeting this month, so rather randomly (with some confidence that Pete Ashton will be there) I’ve plumped for March 31st (by the way others are able to use the Facebook group to create meetings).

Hopefully two or three of the Brum folk who went [...]

Birmingham Wifi Names from Jon Bounds

Saturday, March 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Jon Bounds has a curious and creative mind. He’s made this for these reasons.
Since I’ve had my iPhone I’ve become interested in the names people give their wifi networks, the way that the phone brings them up for you as you walk around made that inevitable. So I took to writing them down – I [...]

Governor 2.0, Tanya Byron and the Digital Media Literacy Summit

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Thursday morning and the phone goes. My kids’ secondary school. “Gawd”, I think, “I need to catch a train to London”. Don’t panic. No accident, no expulsions. It turns out I’ve been elected one of four parent governors.

I can be slow at times – because I spent the rest of the day at [...]

 
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Birmingham Cafes and Free Wifi.

Saturday, September 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Like Pete I firmly believe that free wifi is a key factor in giving a cafe my custom. So I’ve just set up a flickr group for Brum hostelries with free wifi. Please add you pics and use the location tags (make sure they are set to public) so we can all find and encourage [...]