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 [...]

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 [...]

I just want to say hello to Andrew Hemmings who moved from lurker to blogger after last night’s mini Birmingham Bloggers meet in the Spotted Dog. (Don’t panic, it was an impromptu meeting for Joanna Geary who will miss the next one this Monday 7pm at Rooty Frooty in the Custard Factory) Andrew talked to [...]

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 [...]

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If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Programme Reward Grant (NPRG) – a £10,000 pilot programme – to allow [...]

 

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A Birmingham Artist has released the source code to allow plants to blog.

More accurately it tweets. So I’m following it. No, that’s right.

No I’ve looked too and I still don’t understand.

Via D’Log – who probably does.

Update Tower Bridger Twitters! This I can understand. Thanks Antonio.

I received an e-mail today from the office of George Osbourne the Shadow Chancellor. Thanks to Rohan Silva for getting in touch.

They wanted to point out similarities between the speech Tom Watson made yesterday on The Power of Information and previous speeches and announcements made by the Conservative Party. The body [...]

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 [...]