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A Local Blogs Blog for Birmingham

Over the weekend it became apparent to me that I couldn’t keep all the local blogs that have sprung up in Birmingham straight in my head. I was also aware that what defines a “local blog” is somewhat, well, ill defined. so I started Local Blogging Birmingham, a quick and dirty Tumblr blog to record [...]

Shift Time in Shrewsbury

In July Shift Time, a festival of ideas, is happening in Shrewsbury. It last for a week (3rd – 12th) and sees a host of things happening based around Charles Darwin’s bicentenial. The big event is Theo Jansen who will be building a new Stranbeest in the town. You might remember Jansen from his TED [...]

Birmingham an epitome of social media best practice. Crock or gospel?

Tomorrow (Thursday) sees me meeting with Axel Andén from the Swedish magazine Medievärlden. He’s on a mission to find out about Birmingham’s social media and blogging scene and why it’s so much more vibrant than elsewhere.
Which is lovely, except I have no idea. It’s a bit like saying “the way you Brummies use buses to [...]

30 notable blogs from Fimoculous

It’s end-of-year-list time on the Internet. Yawn. But as always in amongst the dull there’s the occasional diamond. I’d recommend you have a skim through Rex Sorgatz’s 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 on Fimoculous, a post that is raised from the mire by being really interesting and useful should you be wanting a snapshot [...]

How could Shakespeare get Internet Social?

Recently I’ve been working with Mark Ball, Head of Events and Exhibitions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, on a research project he’s undertaking as part of the Clore Leadership Program, the proposed title of which is “The influence of social networking and on-line collaboration on the production and distribution of the performing arts.” After our [...]