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That was weird. After I published the post about the Custard Factory it showed up in my RSS feed with a lot of strange characters in it. After a bit of fiddling I’d got rid of the characters but in the process my RSS feed got truncated. As any savvy internet type will tell you, [...]

Here’s a picture of a cabbage from the allotment. It’s here partly at the suggestion of Nick Booth who quite rightly thinks I should put some distance between the experience of being at the Tory party conference and the actual blogging of it. Please admire how perfectly formed it is. It shall be eaten with [...]

I spent my last working day in Digbeth last Friday after two and a half years. On Monday I shift to the Jewellery Quarter where I’ll be working for Digital Birmingham. I liked working around Digbeth (Bromley street to be precise) but it wasn’t without its frustrations so here’s 10 things I’d change about it: [...]

As promised to research colleagues at the Regional Studies Association event in Southampton yesterday (25th Sept) here’s a copy of the presentation I gave. Issues In Developing An Audio Visual Cluster In The West Midlands View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: cluster awm)

Some links for you: Supply2.gov.uk presents the Tendering for Success Roadshow 2008 – Home – Roadshow at Birmingham Uni on 15th October about tendering for public sector contracts. Developers dig Digbeth – Property Week – Looks like the credit crunch is saving the Custard Factory from further gentrification. Hat tip to Nicky Getgood. Mr Elephant [...]

Some links for you: Birmingham designers and publisher celebrate Booker Prize listing – Birmingham Post – I missed this from last month. Two connections for me: I used to work for Jewellery Quarter based designers Homer Creative whose top designer Sue Race has designed a book cover for a Booker Prize nominee. Second connection: I [...]

Some links for you: Expression of Interest – North Staffs Website (Sept Revision) – North Staffordshire regeneration partnership is looking to commission a web-development company to design and build a North Staffordshire creative industries portal. DEADLINE: 19th September Are you part of this, or just a reflection of it? | edu.blogs – "The thing about [...]

After writing a couple of months ago about Creative Republic I thought it about time I went along to an event. So last night I showed up at the Michael Wolff Masterclass in the so-new-the-paint’s-still-wet Fazeley Studios in Digbeth. Wolff himself had to pull out at the last minute which was a shame but in [...]