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 [...]

Thanks Jon and Pete for finding this link for us.

A while back Antonio Gould sat in my back bedroom and we talked about social media. He’d come round to record some ideas about podcasting for his fifth and apparently final Birmingham made Channel 4 media cast. It is a great listen. Antonio has a clear and enthusiastic delivery, well produced, with loads of [...]

This is good. It’s the site created by 3form for Audiences Central as part of a partnership between the BBC in the West Midlands and the Arts Council.
It’s called the Big Picture 2008 and the technical jiggery pokery linking google maps, flickr and the site is dead clever.
So what’s it for? Well on the face [...]

I’m really getting the giggles from the Lolpolitics from loldeirdre on flickr. I have my suspicions as to who’s behind this – but they’re clearly having so much fun I don’t want to spoil anything, ot even with a hatwink. If you don’t know who deirdre is try here. Other politicians can [...]

I get excited by Christmas – as do the final year Students at Birmingham City University who’ve launched the video rich blog Turkey Brumsticks. It’ll form part of their final year journalism project. Spotted here and because of comments left here. If you see someone wondering around with camera and mic at [...]

PC Bernie Flynn has been working with young people in Quinton in Birmingham consistently since 2001, merging policing with youth work. For him finding the right people for the job and giving them time to show respect and earn respect is at the heart of good community policing. Anti social behaviour in and around [...]

 

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