A quick city guide to Birmingham, in The Guardian
The best jokes never make it past the subs, but here's a thing I wrote for the Guardian recently. [link]
Tag Archives: work
It’s a living thing
Edgeryders is an EU project to try to work out how creatives and freelancers can make a living ‘on the edge’. One of the people working on it is good mate ChrisRead More…
Hyperlocal voices: Jon Bounds of Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
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…
Synonyms For Churlish : An open letter to the marketing dude at the National Theatre who posted 'c–t' to their Twitter account
A lovely post about the nonsense that is perpetuated about Twitter accounts being "hacked" when it's either something people regret or an honest error. [link]
Kristine Lowe: Do you remember back when revealing an opinion could get you fired?
A great examination of what I referred to as the public/private problem. Well worth a read. [link]
Jon Bounds is not impressed by Nick Clegg’s Your Freedom « Labour Uncut
There are blog posts pulling apart the new Your Freedom website, but this is mine. [link]
Clever politicians are using the social web to make humanity scaleable, says Jon Bounds « Labour Uncut
At the Personal Democracy forum in New York I was very impressed with how Mayor of Newark Cory Boooker is using the social web to engage people. Here's a short article IRead More…
Looking ahead at open, public data- Digital Birmingham
Good post from Si Whitehouse on some issues of public data release: "What will we do if members of the public form groups and use the newly open data to question theRead More…
So just what is Five Minute Mentors? | We Share Stuff
A good (and quick) explanatory video about the online mentoring system we (We Share Stuff) are developing. [link]
Jon Bounds on the half-appearance of the internet election « Labour Uncut
"it was never going to be a simple case of joining one Facebook Group over another. The web can handle nuance, even if our electoral system can’t." A piece I've written forRead More…