March 24, 2011
Every now and again over the past three years someone in my social media network ‘discovers’ the amazing Phyllis Nicklin archive of images of Birmingham from the 1950s and 60s. It feels like coming across some lost treasure, yet these images were never lost in a physical sense but in digital terms they seem to [...]
March 21, 2011
Some links for you: How hyperlocal sustainability is only possible with the network; how were doing that in Lichfield and with Journal Local | Philip John – “Networks of niches underpinned by local partnerships are, in my opinion, the way forward.” 5 TV news conventions video journalists should scrap « Adam Westbrook :: online video [...]
March 9, 2011
Well that’s that done then. You’ll need to see my previous post for the context but I’ve now run both halves of the number 11 bus route in Birmingham. The map below takes the raw track data (separated from lap data via Google Earth) from both halves and uses GPS Visualiser to map the routes [...]
March 2, 2011
So he was probably just joking, but in response to me saying I might run the 27-mile number 11 bus route in Birmingham (and then realising I shouldn’t, cos it’s too long for marathon training) I took an idea Pete Ashton had and, erm, ran with it. Running long distances is very boring indeed, so [...]