Tag Archives: Birmingham UK

10Apr/12

Still Walking

10 April 2012art, my projects, portfoliobirmingham anchor, Birmingham UKJon Bounds

On the first day of April Danny Smith and I delivered a walking tour of the ‘back end’ of Birmingham city centre as part of the Still Walking festival. Ben Waddington theRead More…

07Mar/12

Web Q+As as a way for politicians to engage

7 March 2012consultation, portfolioBirmingham UK, civico, mayor, sion simonJon Bounds

I’ve been advising on Siôn Simon‘s campaigning for an (and to be) elected mayor of Birmingham for more than a year, but with the referendum on whether the city should have one coming upRead More…

28Feb/12

My appearance on the Today programme

28 February 2012Conferences & Talks, portfolioBirmingham UK, me, Radio 4, Today programmeJon Bounds

While revamping this site a touch I was struck by how many of the sites and projects I’d linked to had just disappeared, so I’m going to try to make more ofRead More…

27Jun/10

O2 New Street Birmingham Insurance Rip-Off

27 June 2010comment, found stuff, geekerybirmingham, Birmingham UK, fiddle, fraud, insurance, iPhone4, o2, rip-offJon Bounds

Boring post this, it’s just for Google to in case any other people are looking to see what’s happened. I popped and got an iPhone 4 the other day, it’s nice (andRead More…

05Nov/09

Birmingham Music Map

5 November 2009geodata, my projects, social media workbirmingham music archive, Birmingham UK, geodata, google maps, map, musicJon Bounds

I’m a great supporter of the Birmingham Music Archive, and have long been discussing types of social media and other work that could contribute to their archiving of Birmingham based music andRead More…

09Jul/09

Hyperlocal News Wire

9 July 2009my projects, social media workaggregator, Birmingham UK, blogging, fliter, hyperlocal, journalism, local, news, pipe, rss, search, Talk About Local, Yahoo PipesJon Bounds

Here’s a pipe I’ve created that attempts to marshal the content from hyperlocal blogging in Birmingham and allow people only to subscribe to feeds that interest them. This is a piece ofRead More…

09Jul/09

Open data may need to change the way data is collected and stored

9 July 2009future web, geodata, good practiceBirmingham UK, FOI, help me investigate, open dataJon Bounds

Like Nick Booth, I was pretty excited to hear of the results of this FOI request for data about parking fines from Birmingham City Council. Not so much as because I careRead More…

17Jun/09

Not interviewing Lord Carter

17 June 2009Conferences & TalksBirmingham UK, dbicc09, digital britain, Lord Carter, Rhubarb RadioJon Bounds

For a brief moment this morning I was going to be interviewing Lord Stephen Carter while he taxied between the Digital Britian Report Launch at the ICC and the Unconference at FazeleyRead More…

23Mar/09

Life in Lozells, another good local blog

23 March 2009blogging, good practiceBirmingham UK, blog, communinty, local, lozellsJon Bounds

I spent an enjoyable hour with Kate Foley late last week, Kate is Neighbourhood Manager in Lozells Birmingham and runs the Life in Lozells blog. The site has been running since MarchRead More…