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 [...]

Teaming up with the Knight Foundation, Ashoka announced that they will award fellowships to 30 social entrepreneurs over the next three years aimed at changing the way journalism works throughout the world.
These Fellows will receive three-year stipends allowing them to focus full-time on their efforts to provide lasting, visible, systemic change in the way journalism [...]

That’s the question thrown my way by Simon Peters at Common Purpose as this international leadership charity sets out to start it’s own blogging experiment. So why?

Leaders need followers and followers need to know if they can trust you.

A blog helps establish how trustworthy you are. It is a patient process, but, over time, [...]

About the time I start writing this a bunch of people will be gathering in London to launch We-Think (Amazon link), the book written by Charles Leadbeater and 237 others. I was sent a review copy, partly because I left a single comment on the wiki, which was used to turn his solo first [...]

This has to be the perfect web story. It involves Britney Spears apparently dumping her Birmingham bred boyfriend Adnan Ghalib by bunging his iPhone in a swimming pool.  For why I’m mentioning it please see the comments at the end of this link.
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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 [...]

Has David Cameron been talking to Tom Steinberg at MySociety?  His announcement yesterday suggests he has because he wants to make ‘scraping’ easier.  Scraping is the process of harvesting information from government websites and reusing it – hopefully for public good.

The Conservative leader quoted a really good example with the mysociety website theyworkforyou which provides [...]