17Jun/15

Telegraph line

17 June 2015birminghamuk, writing workJon Bounds

A comment piece in the Daily Telegraph today, with some hopefully fresh angles on Birmingham accents. It looks much nicer in the paper, than anywhere you can read the 150 or soRead More…

08Oct/13

TED for the Dead

8 October 2013birminghamuk, my projectsJon Bounds

Is how my brain processes xHumed, at which I’m appearing on Nov 5th in Brum. Tickets available now.

12Nov/12

By and about

12 November 2012birminghamuk, misc, writing11 bus, BiNS, writingJon Bounds

There was a piece featuring me and the sale of BiNS on the BBC News site last week. As ever with ‘news’ I felt the interesting stuff didn’t make it to theRead More…

22Oct/12

Why I’m giving up Birmingham: It’s Not Shit

22 October 2012birminghamuk, blogging, my projectsBirmingham It's Not Shit, blog, sellingJon Bounds

At some point over the weekend, I decided to out the low level moving on campaign and put my most famous website up for sale on eBay. I started the site backRead More…

19Jul/12

Is Oxford happy?

19 July 2012art, birminghamuk, social media, twitterbirminghamuk, conversational psychogeography, oxford, twitterJon Bounds

After moving down to Oxford I did an update of my Birmingham Emotions conversational psychogeography project. That’s now quite simple as I have built a ‘happy monitor’ that can centre anywhere. I’mRead More…

07Jan/11

Map of Birmingham— Inebriance Survey

7 January 2011art, birminghamuk, design, geekery, my projects, portfolioInebriance Survey, jon bounds, Map of Birmingham, open street mapJon Bounds

Map of Birmingham: Inebriance Survey 2011 PDF Now that is what I call a map. Every pub in Birmingham as available from the Open Street Map XAPI (on 6/1/11), for use asRead More…

22Feb/10

Someone Once Told Me

22 February 2010birminghamuk, miscart, Mario Cacciottolo, photo, Someone Once Told meJon Bounds

Here I am, looking a little grumpy, as part of Mario Cacciottolo’s really rather lovely ‘Someone Once Told Me‘ project.

08Nov/09

Investigative Journalism

8 November 2009birminghamuk, my projects, videobirminghamuk, superlooJon Bounds

04Jun/09

Is this ‘unique’ or are the media keeping people dumb?

4 June 2009birminghamuk, miscBirmingham Mail, Pete Ashton, reverse graffittiJon Bounds

The Birmingham Mail covered this exchange on Pete Ashton’s blog, which is good — it’s a story. To sum up, an advertising company working on behalf of the Rep Theatre were using reverseRead More…

20May/09

Yahoo’s When isn’t so hot on where

20 May 2009birminghamuk, comment, found stuff, geekerybirminghamisntinlondon. birminghamuk, local, whenJon Bounds

Supposedly “hyperlocal” thing from Yahoo, hasn’t quite got the “local” bit, yet. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!