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A Clare Edwards tweet alerted me to the video above which is promoting Soweto Kinch’s Flyover Show (May 31st underneath the Hockley Flyover in Birmingham (and its free). The fact that this is happening is proof of Soweto’s credentials as an active citizen [...]

 

 Soweto Kinch podcast on the Grassroots Chanel from October 2006 [11:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Students at Frankley High have returned to their experiment with podcasting which I was helping to support last year. It’s taken a while to get back but we’re hoping to create a learning group where those who worked with us last year begin to show the teachers how to use the kit.

We also went [...]

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This Youtube channel is my idea of good. A series of cleanly made but short (typically 3 mins) videos on personal experience of discrimination and reflections on human rights. The film above is from Michael Etkind, who survived a Nazi concentration camp. [...]

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:

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I like this Youtube video from Birmingham City University English department.

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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 [...]

 

 Bordesley Green and the Birmingham NPRG Pilot - Margaret Bannon [10:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Social Media can lead to Social Action. You may remember this Youtube film from Martin Mullaney which prompted a torrent of abuse from taggers in his Birmingham ward of Kings Heath and Moseley among the 500 or more comments from 46,000 views:

The resulting conversation has helped establish some local action on tagging, as Martin reports [...]

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 [...]