Tag Archives: birminghamuk

25Jul/12

Open government, data and transparency

25 July 2012consultation, miscbirminghamuk, consultation, open data, politicsJon Bounds

While working on Siôn Simon’s push for there to be a directly elected Mayor for Birmingham I contributed an ideas paper around the possibilities for a more open system of government inRead 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…

29Mar/12

Spreading the word about the mayoral referendum

29 March 2012writingArea, birminghamuk, mayor, refereundum, writingJon Bounds

I’ve been supporting the Yes campaign for an elected mayor in Birmingham, and one of the big issues is awareness that the referendum is even happening (one poll said less than 40% knew)Read More…

17Jan/11

Broadcast’s Trish Keenan: a singer for whom life was a discovery | Music | guardian.co.uk

17 January 2011found stuffbirminghamuk, broadcast., music, thebounderJon Bounds

"If the reaction of the blogosphere and Twitterati to Keenan's sudden death are reliable indicators, every one of their four studio albums should have been worldwide No 1s. Blur's Graham Coxon calledRead More…

29Sep/10

Is Birmingham Happy?

29 September 2010future web, geodata, my projects, portfolio, social media, social media work, twitter, web development workanew, birminghamuk, conversational psychogeography, emotion, is brum happy, psychogeography, sentiment analysis, twitter, wormalJon Bounds

I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…

15Sep/10

Hyperlocal voices: Jon Bounds of Birmingham: It’s Not Shit

15 September 2010del.icio.usbirminghamuk, hyperlocal, interview, paulbradshaw, workJon Bounds

I was interviewed some time ago over email by Paul Bradshaw for a series on people who had started or were running (hyper-) local blogs. It's up now on Online Journalism Blog,Read More…

25May/10

Globalisation? Hmm

25 May 2010Conferences & Talks, social mediabirminghamuk, debate, jon hickman, Pete Ashton, what's onJon Bounds

This Thursday (27/5) at 7:45pm at the wondrously refurbished Midlands Arts Centre, I’m taking part in a debate on — breath — social media and globalisation. It’s billed as: “Expert Jon Hickman (Birmingham CityRead More…

08Nov/09

Investigative Journalism

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

01Sep/09

Greenbelt 09 – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit

1 September 2009Conferences & TalksbirminghamukJon Bounds

I was asked to talk about Birmingham, and so I did: Here are the slides and my recording of the audio for the I gave on Friday at Greenbelt. Birmingham Its NotRead More…

07Aug/09

Greenbelt blog

7 August 2009del.icio.usbirminghamuk, jonbounds, talks, workJon Bounds

I'm speaking a the Greenbelt festival in Cheltenham, three times (which came as a shock). I've not written anything to say yet, but it will be something along these lines. I'm mainlyRead More…