July 21, 2010
Whilst admiring the yellow courgettes growing on my allotment yesterday I thought to myself: “someone should really write a blog post about Birmingham’s Creative Industries and the whole Local Economic Partnerships thing. Hey, that’s something I could write about”. Fortunately, Chris Unitt on the Created in Birmingham blog got there before me and has got [...]
July 16, 2010
Some links for you: NESTA – Make It Local – Hey local authorities – get your bidding hat on and get that data opened up: "Make it Local aims to encourage collaboration between local authorities and digital media developers, to provide innovative, web-based services for their communities." Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database with the [...]
July 7, 2010
Some links for you: Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus – jon bounds – "What disappoints is that lack of discussion solutions to those problems, it might be that there aren’t any obvious ones but I’d love to see what Clay has to say on the matter — he says how early in his web [...]
July 2, 2010
View Walking in the Creative City in a larger map Today (Friday 2nd July 2010) was a great day to be out and about in Birmingham, a quite wonderful creative and vibrant city in case you weren’t aware. Here’s who I met today and who I talked to. Every morning I face a critical decision. [...]
July 1, 2010
Some links for you: Steve McCurry – Exhibitions and Events – Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery – Must get to this at some point – or send students to it at least. "Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is the sole UK venue for a retrospective of the work of American photo-journalist Steve McCurry, the man [...]