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 [...]

A month ago Eccentric City put up the offer of a £1 commission and I wrote this – saying I’d pay anyone who came up with something a tenner – really just meddling with being a patron of the arts…

Well Pete Ashton tells me that Simon Raven came up with this remarkable film:

You need to [...]

Take a good look at this picture. It is full of what I would call ordinary folk. None of them appear to be super heroes, to fit the heroic mould we have created for our social entrepreneurs and active citizens.

They are David Barrie’s fellow “bloody minded obsessives” who have collaborated on [...]

Paul Caplan responded to this comment I made yesterday on this blog post with this explanation of what he thinks slow media is and why it matters. Thanks Paul. For taking the time.

There has been a lot of interest in Downing Street joining Twitter. But does it really mean much, or anything, that’s new?

At the moment number 10 is using it predominantly as a means to feed us links to press releases plus the odd Youtube film. Very good.

Within less than 24 hours 178 people [...]

Just a few thinks I’d like to mention as a way of getting the week going, and what a week:

South by South West Midlands The most fun I’ve had online in a long time resides in the stream of stuff (both brilliant and facile) emerging from the Birmingham folk who are spending the week [...]

Britain’s most eccentric newspaper Eccentric City has an energetic website and is driven in part by the creative energy of brummie Simon Walker – who told (link here) one of our most popular podcast stories.

Jules (elegantly standing in for Pete Ashton whilst he swans in Texas on our (Birmingham’s) behalf!) tells us that they are [...]

Anyone watching the Guardian Media Awards on Twitter may have had the chance of a real giggle at Pete Ashton and Stef Lewandowski’s growing frustration with the whole event.

It boiled over when Pete realised that the blogging awards (which included one for Created in Birmingham jointly with www.we-make-money-not-art.com and www.fromthefrontline.co.uk ) were not going to [...]