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# Jon Bounds

Words, and ideas

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## Posts

- [Blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog-2/)
- [Is it for charity?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/2077/is-it-for-charity/) - I once persuaded  quite of lot of people to spend 11 hours on a bus: a trip that would leave them pretty much where they started after three or four times round a loop. “Is it for charity?”, people would ask. And no, no it wasn’t. It was based on Birmingham’s Outer Circle route: a
- [Pier inside](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/2073/pier-inside/) - It's not out until 11 February, but Danny and I received advanced copies of Pier Review — the book which we had the idea for back in 2010 — just this week. Most of that time was spent not doing anything, then going through the publishing process — it took us about a year and
- [Some things I wrote this year](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/2070/some-things-i-wrote-this-year/) - Just pulled this list of pieces together to test something on Facebook. It's not everything I wrote this year: but hopefully some of the more interesting bits. Hope it might fill a reading gap for someone. First, a festive bit about establishment hegemonies, Twitter and panto:https://www.imperica.com/viewpoint/twitters-pantomime-jon-bounds Something the about creative destruction of modern capitalism http://paradisecircus.com/2015/12/14/brutal-beautiful-battered-were-losing-the-war-for-our-soul/
- [Bon voyage, Pier Review](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/2056/bon-voyage-pier-review/) - We've just completed and sent away to the publisher via our agent the text that is to become the book Pier Review. We signed with Summersdale a few months ago, and they plan to release the finished thing in the spring next year. There will no doubt be edits, but it's there — and had
- [Telegraph line](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/2051/telegraph-line/) - 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 so comments below.
- [Open government, data and transparency](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1863/open-government-data-and-transparency/) - 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 in the city. It covered open data (in broad strokes rather than technical details), comms and transparency. It was always a plan for the
- [Some recent writing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/2043/some-recent-writing/) - Pluralistic ignorance and the modern condition - on social phycology and group behaviour. Ol' Red Eyes: Marxist TV reviews - a tumblr full of the Marxist television writing I've been commissioned to do recently. Den Pen's Shoes - on people who pretend to be dead authors on Twitter. An interview with Stephen Duffy of the
- [Some latest bits of writing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1992/some-latest-bits-of-writing/) - Along with the usual Paradise Circus and Pier Review work, here's a few things I've written in the last month or so. Lolitics: The power of civic satire, which is about how satire is now something everyone can do. Why everything is shit nowadays, which is about how transactions are getting harder and harder. A
- [Pier Review review](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1697/pier-review-review/) - I'm currently knee deep in postcards, books about the seaside and still have sand in my good pumps. It's nearly six months since I spent two weeks traveling around all of England and Wales's surviving seaside pleasure piers and we're about halfway through writing the book. It's hard going, but fun. Here’s the picture side of
- [Email to the Editor of The Birmingham Mail ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/2002/email-to-the-editor-of-the-birmingham-mail/) - Below is a copy of an email that I have just sent to David Brookes, editor of the Birmingham Mail. Dear Sir, I would like your thoughts on a series of 'similarities' between articles posted on a website I edit (paradisecircus.com) and some on birminghammail.co.uk. Paradise Circus is, as you may know, a site that
- [Local Shops: a short story about memory and place](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1984/local-shops-a-short-story-about-memory-and-place/) - I published it on Paradise Circus as it was inevitably set in Birmingham. At around 1600 words it's not too long to be read in a few minutes.
- [Architecture and morality](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1290/architecture-and-morality/) - I wanted to write something in order to solidify my thoughts on why blog comments seemingly are more likely to be negative rather than positive, this isn't going to be interesting or original. Probably it's something to do with how if there's something you don't like it's more important to "vocalise" it than when you
- [The Moran Scale of Twitterstorms](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1965/the-moran-scale-of-twitterstorms/) - I was asked to 'create' a Twitterstorm as part of an art project, and I sort of did. While this wonderful Buzzfeed post describes the stages that one goes through, in order to measure the size of a storm and hence the success of my operation we needed a way to describe the extent of
- [The Eye of the Twitterstorm - xHuming Joseph Priestley](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1956/the-eye-of-the-twitterstorm-xhuming-joseph-priestley/) - I'll write up the xHumed talk asap, Joseph Priestley sending this Tweet: It is my conclusion that until they can be made safe the bi-cycle must be banned from the streets of Birmingham and other large towns. — Joseph Priestley (@JPriestley1733) November 5, 2013 Resulted in this reaction (in statistics) up till about
- [Twitter Hours, the Cargo Cults of online networking.](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1951/twitter-hours-the-cargo-cults-of-online-networking/) - For a thing, I've been investigating some Twitter communities I wouldn't usually go anywhere near. Most due to lack of interest but one sort due to a distaste of a lot of what it sets out to do. That one was the concept of a timed Twitter chat hour—there are loads of these, they often
- [TED for the Dead](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1947/ted-for-the-dead/) - Is how my brain processes xHumed, at which I'm appearing on Nov 5th in Brum. Tickets available now.
- [A quick city guide to Birmingham, in The Guardian](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1899/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]
- [By and about](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1891/by-and-about/) - 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 the actual article and in fact I'm sure I didn't say anything about gaps quite like that. I thought what I said was a
- [Why I'm giving up Birmingham: It's Not Shit](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1887/why-im-giving-up-birmingham-its-not-shit/) - 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 back in the May of 2002, before there were really such things as blogs in the mainstream and the term 'hyperlocal' was not even
- [The worst captain in the World](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1879/the-worst-captain-in-the-world/) - I was on Danny Baker's Radio Five show earlier, which was great. I've always been a big fan of his and consider him to be one of the few genuinely innovative and brilliant broadcasters. I'd texted in in response to a question about being a terrible sporting captain, and it was a good opportunity to
- [Photosynth Panoramas](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1872/photosynth-panoramas/) - I really like the Photosynth iPhone app for creating panoramas, it's a painless process and can be done quite quickly. Of course moving people, or dogs, can create an odd effect. This one is at the summit of Tal y fan in North Wales, with added ghost and extra long dog of course.
- [Improving the happiness index](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1867/improving-the-happiness-index/) - After my talk at Oxford Geek Night I was happy to have a couple of suggestions to see if the algorithm could produce better results. One was to remove retweets from the search, which makes sense as we all know from many Twitter bios "a RT does not imply endorsement"—and that was easy to implement
- [Is Oxford happy?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1857/is-oxford-happy/) - 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'm not as happy myself as I was with the results however, whether due to the increasing volume of the Tweets that it analyses
- [Going up in The Public](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1854/going-up-in-the-public/) - From 18th July until September the large glass edition of the Birmingham Music Map is going to be on display at The Public in West Bromwich as part of their Summer Exhibition. It's free to visit and has a rather nice coffee shop-cum-bar. Thanks to Jez from the Birmingham Music Archive for his continued support
- [Fused - Special edition](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1849/fused-special-edition/) - Fused magazine, which (as well as sister publication Area) I've done stuff for in the past, has just released a very special edition. It's thick, beautiful and perfect bound and it's the first volume of what they're calling the second volume of the mag. It's got some fantastic photography and illustrations and rather wonderfully for
- [Reviewing Saltburn Pier](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1843/reviewing-saltburn-pier/) - Forty two piers in to our circumnavigation of the coast of England and Wales we arrived bleary in Saltburn-by-the-sea one morning. Luckily the breathtaking coastline and the warming sun perked us up. Luckily as it was the only time we were captured on video during the trip. It's for and, we think, going to be
- [Paperback Collator](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1835/paperback-collator/) - Poorly Collected Works 2010-11 is the title of an eBook I pulled together at the end of last year. It sold a few, and jumped into the Amazon charts when it was part of a promotion, but was more of an experiment. In continuing experimentation, now Createspace is working with Amazon UK I made it
- [Are you in a happy place?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1830/are-you-in-a-happy-place/) - On Friday I got round to doing something I'd been thinking of for a long while. I added location detection to my conversational psychogeography tool. Like the Is Brum Happy? system it takes the latest tweets around a location and rates emotionally sensitive words against a database to give scores for the happiness or emotional
- [It's a living thing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1827/its-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 Chris Pinchen (often found online under the moniker Cataspanglish) and he has been doing a series of interviews. Or more chats really. We had
- [Two years is a long time in politics](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1821/two-years-is-a-long-time-in-politics/) - When I returned to the Labour fold and joined the party a few months before the 2010 General Election it was party through fear, partly through duty, but mainly because I thought there was a real opportunity that it could be reclaimed from the New Labour years and start representing the people again. People I
- [I saw The Light](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1818/i-saw-the-light/) - Well, phoned the singer up. I interviewed Peter Hook (Hooky, of Joy Division, New Order, Revenge, Monaco and now The Light…) a little while ago for Fused Magazine. They've just put it online. Go have a read.
- [Still Walking](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1805/still-walking/) - 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 the genius behind the festival asked for something that played with the city's memes and myths, so that's what we tried to do. (photo
- [Spreading the word about the mayoral referendum](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1803/spreading-the-word-about-the-mayoral-referendum/) - 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) and especially when you think of younger voters. So it was really cool of local culture guide Area magazine to let me write
- [Exit strategy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1799/exit-strategy/) - Around ten years ago I started Birmingham: It's Not Shit, the reasons are well documented and it's been an interesting, useful and, at times, fun ride. It's certainly changed the path of my life, let me meet interesting people and do interesting things. But it's never been intended to make money, I think of it
- [Twitizen Kane](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1793/twitizen-kane/) - Yesterday, I tried the Twitpanto method on "the greatest film ever made". As part of  ‘Yarn presents Five Stories High’ at Flatpack Festival, I re-interpreted around ten minutes of Citizen Kane. It was a tight deadline, so plans to do something really different fell behind just writing a script and getting together a few 'actors' I
- [Touching cloth](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1790/touching-cloth/) - On Friday, as part of Flatpack Festival, there'll be a screening of Lawrence of Belgravia: the documentary about the Felt, Denim and Go Kart Mozart frontman (nay, genius). The blurb goes thusly: "Lawrence is one of those legends that very few people have heard of. Hellbent on stardom from an early age he jettisoned his
- [NewsJack — writing comedy quickly](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1786/newsjack-writing-comedy-quickly/) - I like to think I'm an amusing writer, and that I can think quickly. Doing a radio show for a couple of years I think demonstrated that, and I've tried my hand at stand-up comedy. But until recently, apart from the odd Twitter witticism I'd not really tried writing topical comedy. BBC Radio Four Extra's NewsJack
- [Web Q+As as a way for politicians to engage](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1782/web-qas-as-a-way-for-politicians-to-engage/) - 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 up fast the pace of engagement has got to speed up. To go along with a launch of a ten point plan for Birmingham, I facilitated
- [Buy, or get free, some ebooks I've written](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1773/buy-or-get-free-some-ebooks-ive-written/) - I've been experimenting with ebook publishing, once the sheer hellish pain of writing something you're happy with is over the format, upload and sales part is fairly easy. Well, when I say sales I mean 'putting on sale' rather than getting people to buy them… that's a whole other story. I've got two 'books' available
- [New LP free: with chicken seasoning](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1772/new-lp-free-with-chicken-seasoning/) - The Internet has disrupted the musician's lot as much as that or any artist, perhaps more so. So how do you get people to value an new LP? Maybe give it away with some fried chicken seasoning? Well that's what mates Friends of the Stars are doing. Their second LP, “Faith’s Meat Kiosk“, is coming out
- [Road Trip: Round the Wrekin  ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1766/road-trip-round-the-wrekin-road-trip-round-the-wrekin/) - This post was written by chum Pete Ashton, about a project we applied for together. A few weeks ago an Arts Council funded commission came over the tootvine which looked pretty interesting. Turning Point West Midlands and Writing West Midlands were looking for a writer and visual artist to undertake a road trip across, you guessed it,
- [Excellent Engagement](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1072/excellent-engagement/) - Content, interaction, community—that's what your social media profile is all about. It's a message that seems to have hit most brands, and organisations right down to the smallest. But from what I'm seeing a lot of at the moment, there are a lot of people finding it hard to think about what to do once
- [Why I'm about to spend two weeks in a car in the name of art](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1675/why-im-about-to-spend-two-weeks-in-a-car-in-the-name-of-art/) - I write, you know, it's sort of the core of loads of stuff I do—writing is a founding block of good social web engagement which is where I get most of my living from. It's also part of teaching or training in a way, you need to be able to construct narratives and find the
- [Don't!!!](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1280/dont/) - A new book by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe' on e-mail etiquette, Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home is already billed as the "genre's Strunk and White,', but proposes that we use exclamation marks willy nilly. Because email is without affect, it has a dulling quality that almost necessitates kicking everything
- [bastard type](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1407/bastard-type/) - Kinematic typography is just text that moves – but this post on Always Watching rounds up the best movie and TV scenes told by only type. Like this one from Psycho: [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XFzgesM2Uk4]
- [sleeveface](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/30/sleeveface/) - You might have seen Sleevefaceing before, but this blog collects all the best ones from the Flickr group. You'll all be trying it now...
- [mousewatch](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1395/mousewatch/) - Remember Mauwkie, the cat that followed your mouse pointer? Well this girl does too, which is slighty more creepy. (via)
- [Dinoparrot shirt](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1420/dinoparrot-shirt/) - This T-shirt is designed by Noel Fielding from The Boosh - and is a limited edition made to support the Teenage Cancer Trust - fashion, art, comedy and charity, you can't go far wrong there.
- [Twitter Cartoon Day](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1427/twitter-cartoon-day/) - Normally my twitter followers are a, fairly, sane bunch of humans - but today I've been watching then all turn to toons. Today has been declared 'Twitter Cartoon Day' - "Brighten up the lives of your fellow Twitterers today by changing your avatar (picture) to a cartoon character."
- [tree cozy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1429/tree-cozy/) - aww. (via)
- [flogos flying logos](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1466/flogos-flying-logos/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEp2-ULjoMA] Your logo as a cloud - via
- [gorgeous, pointless, inspirational](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1482/gorgeous-pointless-inspirational/) - ColorFlip.com by Rafaël Rozendaal, collection of Sébastien de Ganay (via)
- [dog hair day](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1484/dog-hair-day/) - Spotted on Neatorama, these 'hair hats'.
- [Bus stop swing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1537/bus-stop-swing/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! It almost makes you want to wait for a bus. Via Wooster Collective: Bruno Taylor's Playful Spaces
- [Being Average](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1527/being-average/) - A platitude that is sitting in my brain, please ignore. Big companies research the market before launching a new product (doubly so before "relauching" an existing one). Then they try to hit their target, shaping the product to "what the users want". Tiny companies, or people just doing it for the love, make what they
- [Local Government — does the 'Government' bit matter?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/636/local-government-—-does-the-government-bit-matter/) - I had a smashing time at LocalGovCamp on Saturday, so thanks to Dave Briggs and the organising team — and everyone that came and embraced the unconference aspect of it. As someone who does a lot of work around how people organise themselves around place and area I often come into contact with Councils and
- [Hyperlocal, when you don't want everything](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/675/hyperlocal-when-you-dont-want-everything/) - I've just created a new version (separate so as not to confuse people) of the Birmingham Hyperlocal News Wire — this one has two improvements: 1) I've taken the main lot of blog feeds out and re-imported as a "sub pipe" (another Yahoo Pipe used as input) — this should let me update one source
- [Why haven't newspaper clichés evolved?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1643/why-havent-newspaper-cliches-evolved/) - There's a lovely new site doing the rounds called Glum Councillors it's dedicated to collecting: "images of councillors looking glum whilst pointing at holes in the road, wearing hard hats or presenting oversized cheques." Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Sites like this and Lolitics are parodying the politicians (and wanabees) — but the poses and the
- [In the record books](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/773/in-the-record-books/) - A real traditional Christmas present for the inquiring kiddie (or adult) is the Guinness Book of Records — I spent many an hour looking up the tallest and widest things in the World in years gone by — so it was great to see 'my' record in the new edition. For a huge portion of
- [What are the People saying about Of All The People In All The World?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/326/what-are-the-people-saying-about-of-all-the-people-in-all-the-world/) - Of All The People In All The World is a unusual and fantastical piece of art/theatre created by Birmingham-based Stan's Cafe. They have a grain of rice to represent every person alive today and the piles are continually re-arranged to represent different statistics - it's far better that I've made it sound here, go and
- [Slow, birds crossing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1553/slow-birds-crossing/) - wcco.com - St. Paul's Traffic Art Signs
- [Award Win for The Big Picture ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/363/award-win-for-the-big-picture/) - Last night I was at the Town Hall in Birmingham, feeling slightly uncomfortable in a suit and the rarefied atmosphere, to witness some of my colleges from The Big Picture pick up an Arts and Business award. The awards recognise partnerships between arts organisations (in this case Audiences Central who I was working for on
- [Finding out what people want](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/380/finding-out-what-people-want/) - Yesterday Stuart Parker and I spent some time doing a little bit of social media training with the media course at Grapevine, a project in Coventry. As part of We Share Stuff, we are trying out our idea that the tools are not what needs to be learnt - it's more the skills to be
- [Big you say? Well you live and learn](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1571/big-you-say-well-you-live-and-learn/) - Birmingham Live and Learn has a nice idea, which is to promote the city's universities by getting students to blog about their experiences and offer advice. However, whether because of what they've been told for SEO or due to poor imagination, a goodly proportion of the posts on the site start like this: Uploaded with
- [Twitter Panto](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/463/twitter-panto/) - I've done something a little foolish, I've organised a pantomine — to be performed on twitter. As far as I know it's the first time someone has attempted live drama on the microblogging service — and it might fail spectacularly (it's very much an experiment). There are around 20 people performing, and as well as
- [Seven things you're not at all interested in](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1580/seven-things-youre-not-at-all-interested-in/) - I don't usually take part in these blog tagging things, normally because they tell you to write about yourself. Now I'll admit that a lot of things I write (here, on the work-type blog, on BiNS, on the Birmingham Post blog, wherever anyone lets me) are tinged with personal thoughts, experiences and the like —
- [Feed Me](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1581/feed-me/) - Feed Me Originally uploaded by bounder After waiting for about 2 weeks longer than normal for my RSS badges from Badges for Bands, I asked where they were. Postal trouble it seems, so they sent me another load (and I think popped a few more in for good measure) — well recomended.
- [A thought about Twitter that is a bit longer that 140 chars](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1585/a-thought-about-twitter-that-is-a-bit-longer-that-140-chars/) - This is likely to be incoherent — which is why, despite it being about social media, it isn't over on jonbounds.co.uk — I'm trying to define why I (amongst others) are starting to worry that we're falling out with Twitter. I'm not going to attempt to explain stuff, just have to dump this out of
- [Glasvegas](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1586/glasvegas/) - Have the look of the band of 2009 - as imagined in a British film from the early nineties. They're various old punk scenesters playing the future Jesus and Mary chain. The set is straight from Jude Law's forgotten dystopian master-work 'Shopping' - desolate monolithic council flats rumble bass and flash neon. They've only got
- [Here Comes Everybody Else](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/499/here-comes-everybody-else/) - I spent a great high-minded couple of hours yesterday at BCU and the Creative Industries Book Club discussing Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody — a book about how the internet (and the social internet especially) is transforming the business of "organising". Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! (this isn't the real cover - but I like it
- [Black dog on my shoulder](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1591/black-dog-on-my-shoulder/) - Following on from the warmly received post on the happiness of various cat food models, it's only inevitable that I should be looking at dogs next. After this, who knows. I did have a look to see whether the fish on the fish food packaging looked happy, but they're a bunch of cold-blooded emotionless bastards.
- [The Big City Plan - Part 2 - Why](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/506/the-big-city-plan-part-2-why/) - I enjoy my free time, so why did I (and the rest of the team) give up huge swathes of their Christmas break and January evenings to help our local council through a consultation process? Simply, we are all people who care deeply about our city and also believe passionately in the power of online
- [The Big City Plan - Part 3 - How](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/507/the-big-city-plan-part-3-how/) - After sounding out interested parties, mainly via twitter, a number of us met up at December's Birmingham Social Media Café — at this point the clock was already on us, we'd only been able to see the Council's online shortcomings once the official consultation period (legally pegged at eight weeks) had started. It quickly became
- [The Big City Plan - Part 4 - Did it work?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/508/the-big-city-plan-part-4-did-it-work/) - The Big City Talk site collected 274 comments, not a huge number perhaps — but from my point of view they were all helpful, considered, and intelligent. There was also clear evidence of commenters building on the work of others, and better ideas forming. It is also very possible (and I've seen from anecdotal evidence)
- [Lolrus unboxing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1601/lolrus-unboxing/) - Lolrus unboxing Originally uploaded by bounder I has a lolrus.
- [Mark Lawson acts a bit of a presumptuous git](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1602/mark-lawson-acts-a-bit-of-a-presumptuous-git/) - Mark Lawson in The Guardian: "Most art - and certainly the greatest examples - is private and exclusive, created by elite professionals for an audience of amateurs. Though touched by it, we cannot touch it. Schemes that physically involve the public in art or music are an important part of art, but should remain a
- [Mr Abodol](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1607/mr-abodol/) - Today's post-hole spam: Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
- [The Big City Plan - Part 5 - Processing Comments](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/553/the-big-city-plan-part-5-processing-comments/) - One of the comments I made on the Cabinet Office's Power Of Information Report, was that alongside opening up the possibilities for 'social' consultation (such as the Big City Talk was) there needed to be a great deal of training and organisational change in the departments handling the comments. They are simply not set up
- [Speakers you shall find](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1609/speakers-you-shall-find/) - I don't think I've been into British Home Stores since I was dragged there to get some forgotten item of school uniform, probably a shirt or a grey V-necked jumper. Is it possible to by grey V-necked jumpers anywhere else? Maybe the grey V-necked jumper and cream chino market has fallen into fast decline. I
- [Amazing new business model for newspapers: "be any good"](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1613/amazing-new-business-model-for-newspapers-be-any-good/) - I'm not a journalist: I did a little bit of journalism training, I have been paid to write for a living, I blog a lot (which requires some of the same sort of skills, some of the time), I read a lot of "news". I know a lot of journalists work very hard, write good
- [I'm not in a good mood](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1621/im-not-in-a-good-mood/) - I'm not having a good week, been busy with work that (while important and good) isn't at a very exciting stage, I'm tired (which isn't going to get any better when I get up at 3.30am for this) and I've had a few tiny bits of rejection. Which is probably why a sleight in the
- [UK TV series map](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1622/uk-tv-series-map/) - UK TV series map Originally uploaded by Meg Pickard
- [Worthless Piece of Crap](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1623/worthless-piece-of-crap/) - A quick group blog we set up today, with the idea of getting to try new stuff — and trying to break it. Trying to hate it in the hope that that will be impossible, a possible cure for gadget lust: Worthless Piece of Crap
- [Hitler's tache](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1626/hitlers-tache/) - Richard Herring has decided to live for a week with a Hitler moustache and see how people react. All in the name of comedy of course.
- [Play him off keyboard cat](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1627/play-him-off-keyboard-cat/) - New meme discovery: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ] which has lead to "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat", where Keyboard Cat tidies up awkward social situations: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpibOl8ZGU&feature=player_embedded] [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6U_5qEE0Y&feature=player_embedded] More, more, again, again here.
- [WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1637/wwiii-propaganda-torrent-your-mp3s/) - WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s Originally uploaded by Brian Lane Winfield Moore
- [Hyperstokal - Hyperlocal Blog Wire improvements using Stoke on Trent](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/668/hyperstokal-hyperlocal-blog-wire-improvements-using-stoke-on-trent/) - I've just cloned the Birmingham Hyperlocal blog wire and created a version for Stoke on Trent. Clare White suggested the sources from this list and this delicious tag. Pulling the sources together reiterated to me that for this to work well the source list has to be maintained by someone with a good deal of
- [Why I Share Stuff](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/735/why-i-share-stuff/) - You may or may not know that I'm a director of We Share Stuff — a social enterprise that uses social media to address the idea of Digital Inclusion. We firmly believe that technology (and social media in particular) is not something separate from everyday life, we look to give opportunity, motivation by explaining the possibilities,
- [hooves up!](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1646/hooves-up/) - hooves up! Originally uploaded by bounder
- [The Electric, Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1650/the-electric-birmingham/) - The Electric, Birmingham Originally uploaded by new folder
- [Someone Once Told Me](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1657/someone-once-told-me/) - Here I am, looking a little grumpy, as part of Mario Cacciottolo's really rather lovely 'Someone Once Told Me' project.
- [How Does Homeopathy Work?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1658/how-does-homeopathy-work/) - How Does Homeopathy Work?.
- [New York, New Politics](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/874/new-york-new-politics/) - I'm off to the city that never sleeps next week for the PdF (Personal Democracy Forum) Conference — a conference on how social technology changes how politics operates. Very much looking forward to seeing Clay Shirky, Jimmy Wales et al speak and also to giving the Civico platform it's first major test. Civico is an
- [World Cup Willies](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1662/world-cup-willies/) - I had a little bit of a paddy on Twitter yesterday after a slew of people were moaning about "the football". "The football" in this instance being a fairly easily avoidable pre-World Cup friendly (the pubs would not have been packed, it was isolated on ITV). I just didn't see how it was worthy of
- [Engaging Visitors Through Social Media](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1000/engaging-visitors-through-social-media/) - Here are the pertiant bits of the flyer for a short course myself and Chris Unitt have devised and will be delivering as part of Birmingham's Hello Business event. It's aimed at those running communications for visitor attractions (museums, theatres, even theme parks) and will be focused on strategies to attract and retain customers. If
- [My appearance on the Today programme](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1706/my-appearance-on-the-today-programme/) - 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 of an effort to keep the records myself. So, here's me on Radio 4's Today programme on 9/1/12, talking about Birmingham's regeneration and how it
- [Twitpanto - worth your vote](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/785/twitpanto-worth-your-vote/) - I'm not usually one to hold much stock in awards, but I like the mixture of democracy and professional opinion that The Shorty Awards has (public vote sorts out a shortlist for such luminaries as David Pogue and MC Hammer to preside over). They are pitched as the Twitter Oscars — so as what I
- [The Illuminati Club](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1656/the-illuminati-club/)
- [The King and I — my Elvis Marathon.](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1667/the-king-and-i-my-elvis-marathon/) - Pleased to have one less thing in common with the Wonder Stuff, I do love Elvis. I love the hillbilly cat and the jumpsuited entertainer, and to prevent disillusionment I find it fairly easy to avoid watching the films — it's not as if they are in heavy rotation on our mainstream channels these days.
- [Beermat Art](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1668/beermat-art/) - My submission to the Beermat Show. Thanks to EAP and those that told me their favourite drunk euphemisms.
- [Sentiment Analysis of a Football Match ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1032/sentiment-analysis-of-a-football-match/) - (click through for big) Last night I turned my sentiment analysis tool on two hashtags: #bcfc and #avfc, the most widely used tags to refer to Birmingham City and Aston Villa during their League Cup quarter final game. It was a chance to see if visualising to 'competing' tags around the same event would be
- [Funny, ha ha.](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1671/funny-ha-ha/) - The ability to make people laugh has always been something that is fairly central to my personality. I'm not entirely sure why, but it wasn't for cliched make-the-bullies-laugh at school reasons, because I did—and they still hit me. That was a lot more to do with me being obviously poorer and shyer in a school
- [Map of Birmingham— Inebriance Survey](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1672/map-of-birmingham-inebriance-survey/) - 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 as a navigational aid. Plotted as a mapless map with Maperitive, and text tided up in Illustrator, no data was added or removed (except
- [Birmingham: It's Not Shit — hyperlocal since 2010](http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/#new_tab)
- [Birmingham Music Map](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/983/birmingham-music-map-2/) - With the Birmingham Popular Music Archive I've been inviting the public to contribute to an online database of music culture in Birmingham, by placing venues, artists, people or anything they feel relates to music on a map. You can see and add your memories to the map, here. An editioning of the results so far
- [It's behind me. Twitter pantomime, a social media experiment](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/465/its-behind-me-twitter-pantomime-a-social-media-experiment/) - Pantomimes have taken a good couple of hundred years to evolve from ballet and variety acts, they've at times been four-hour sprawling shows with a lavish ballroom scene. These days they're more likely to be a string of doubles-entendre hung loosely over a plot that gives a TV personality a chance to expand his or
- [The Big City Plan - Part 1 - Constructive Activism](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/490/the-big-city-plan-part-1-constructive-activism/) - Birmingham is getting a real reputation for being a place where social media doesn't only happen, it organises and does things that are intended to create social good. From the Social Media Surgeries (developed from a concept used by Pete Ashton by Nick Booth to something almost the whole of the blogging community takes part
- [Is Birmingham Happy?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/989/is-birmingham-happy/) - 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, news headlines and (originally) blog posts and compared the words within them to a table I'd drawn up of 'emotion' words and fairly arbitrary
- [How Christmassy are you feeling?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1040/how-christmassy-are-you-feeling/) - Just a little fun seasonal project I've made with the layout and design help of Gavin Wray. It works very much like my other sentiment analysis tools, but with a sprinkling of Santa's magic. Santa's magic in this instance being that any tweets with the words 'Christmas' or 'Xmas' in them are weighted doubly—that is the scores
- [Winona Forever](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1674/winona-forever/) - Forever? Lasted about three days.
- [Tweeting for a "brand" or organisation](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/570/tweeting-for-a-brand-or-organisation/) - First written May '09, updated (slightly) April '11. Although listening is the most important way of using Twitter for a brand or organisation, you'll want to do some actual tweeting too — or it's not a conversation. Here are some generic tips on how this can work well, based on my work with a number
- [Getting started on Twitter](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/536/twitter-beginners-guide/) - This post was written way back in Twitter's first flush of youth, Feb 2009, but I've updated it to reflect some technical changes and other stuff as of April 2010. Been hearing all the hype about Twitter, but don't know how to have a go? Here's a quick guide to starting off, helping you
- [Monitoring your “brand” on Twitter with search](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/560/monitoring-your-“brand”-on-twitter-with-search/) - If you're doing any sort of professional work on Twitter then the main part of what you should do is listen. Listen to see what people are saying about you or your areas of expertise. You might find useful information, or you might find useful contacts or leads — or more likely you'll be able
- [Ask a stupid question…](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1050/ask-a-stupid-question…/) - If there was one central point to remember to make online consultation successful it would be that if the question isn't a good one the best response you'll get is none. If the object of the exercise has no real meaning or effect then, while no response would be disappointing, it only takes a tiny meme to make silence
- [Is Twitter about to do a mass reclaim of unused accounts?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1044/is-twitter-about-to-do-a-mass-reclaim-of-unused-accounts/) - It's easy to sign up for a Twitter account, all you need is an email address. It used to be even easier, they weren't even verified. I have, I estimate, about a hundred—lots used but others created for short-term projects or jokes. Some, in truth, in the same way as you register a domain name—idea half-formed but
- [Broadcast's Trish Keenan: a singer for whom life was a discovery | Music | guardian.co.uk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1673/broadcasts-trish-keenan-a-singer-for-whom-life-was-a-discovery-music-guardian-co-uk/) - "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 called the news "devastating". Chillwave artist, Toro Y Moi, aka Chaz Bundick, tweeted that Keenan was "one of my biggest influences", while Colin Meloy
- [Can't stand up for falling down](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1670/cant-stand-up-for-falling-down/) - This is me doing straight stand-up comedy for the first time, just five minutes and a couple of fucks: Jon Bounds - stand up by jonbounds
- [Stand Up](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1669/stand-up/) - Next Friday (26th November) I'm doing a brief set as part of this Stand up Comedy thing. I've not written the act, as such, yet—but it'll probably be something to do with beards.
- [Engaging Visitors Through Social Media - Notes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1016/engaging-visitors-through-social-media-notes/) - If you've attended the Engaging Visitors Through Social Media session I was a part of at Hello Business, then here are some notes and links. If you didn't, you may still find them interesting if a little random. Engaging Visitors Through Social Media by jonbounds An extended version of the Internet culture part of the
- [Sentiment Analysis of the X-Factor](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1008/sentiment-analysis-of-the-x-factor/) - As promised, I turned my Twitter sentiment analysis tool on the big TV/social web phenomenon that is the X-Factor. I started the script running at around 6:30pm and off again at 10:30pm — but the really interesting bit is during the show itself (thankfully watching the results stream in meant I didn't have to watch the show
- [Sentiment Analysis and Twitter 'wormals'](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1004/sentiment-analysis-and-twitter-wormals/) - I've tried two experiments with the "is Birmingham happy" algorithm in the last few days, as they're not based on place it makes more sense to use the popular term 'sentiment analysis' to refer to what it's doing in this instance. As they were both reasonably short uses it was posible to update the reading often (and
- [Personal Democracy Forum EU](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/994/personal-democracy-forum-eu/) - I'm just about to head off to the Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona, it's a two-day conference on the future of democracy and technology and has got some great speakers lined up. I'm there as part of the Civico team who are live-streaming and doing a bit of reporting — you'll be able to follow
- [Loose Tweets Sink Fleets](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/977/loose-tweets-sink-fleets/) - …or otherwise carefully crafted communications anyway. If you're newish to Twitter and attempting to communicate with people to achieve anything more than a way to update friends or follow people you like you might want to print this out and stick it close to your monitor. This stuff doesn't seem to be explained clearly enough
- [Mind Your Language](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/966/mind-your-language/) - We're all aware, or should be, of the power of language. It's one of the central ideas of 1984, that you can direct or restrict thought by what words you use for real concepts. If that doesn't convince you—it's fiction, right—here's a real-life example of how language alters perceptions. This is a list of language changes
- [Mayors, badges, and blue plaques?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/955/mayors-badges-and…-blue-plaques/) - What's Foursquare for? I think people are still working it out. While the benefits for businesses of being able to target customers and record movement are interesting (and would be much improved with widespread adoption), it's harder to see just why people are using it. That's not because I've got privacy issues (I do in fact
- [Hyperlocal voices: Jon Bounds of Birmingham: It’s Not Shit](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/962/hyperlocal-voices-jon-bounds-of-birmingham-its-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, and is the nearest I think I've got to the reason why I (at least) persist in this area — the other pieces give
- [Chernobyl Fallout](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/947/chernobyl-fallout/) - "What would happen if the world were suddenly without people; if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react —and how swiftly?" That's the question asked by the documentary 'Chernobyl Reclaimed', and the answer seems to be 'it gets on just fine without us'. I've been wondering if the social web
- [Subject: Act now to get the best communication from your Elected Representatives  ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/940/subject-act-now-to-get-the-best-communication-from-your-elected-representatives/) - Dear Sir or Madam, I'm writing to you to ask for your support in helping work out how our elected officials can deal with online campaigners. If we don't act soon then the opportunity to create huge grassroots movements will be marked as SPAM. I've been thinking more about the hoo-ha when new Tory MP
- [Synonyms For Churlish : An open letter to the marketing dude at the National Theatre who posted 'c--t' to their Twitter account](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/939/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]
- [The future of publishing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/928/the-future-of-publishing/) - If there's one thing that fills the web more than cat pictures it's ruminations on the state, past or future of newspapers and magazines. The truth is old models are failing and no-one really knows. Rupert Murdoch is trying paywalls, which is a possibility for publications with existing audiences and strong brands, but what can
- [Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/898/clay-shirky-and-the-cognitive-surplus/) - George Orwell said, in an essay of fulsome praise of the man and his work, that Charles Dickens “was not a revolutionary writer”. He didn’t mean that Dickens wasn’t capable of or responsible for revolutions in prose, but that despite the image as a champion of the downtrodden he didn’t wish for systemic revolution —
- [Lost and Found](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/921/lost-and-found/) - Meet Scabbycat. He pitched up in our front yard last week sometime. He's okay, bit neglected looking — but doesn't have plans to leave, so we're looking after him as best we can. He can't come to live in our house as he might have something that our cats could catch, but we've got him
- [Where consultation and campaigning break](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/922/where-consultation-and-campaigning-break/) - We're in need of new era in how people consult with authority — campaigning and lobby groups have gotten so good at getting people to use e-mail or other messaging systems that anyone soliciting input needs to have a large staff and a good process for dealing with the deluge. MPs are cracking under the
- [Chaos](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/917/chaos/) - When chaos runs slowly enough it can look like calm. But it's still chaos. There has been chaos within the methods of communication used between authority and those it claims authority over for hundreds of years — but until recently you could only see it with the scale of hindsight. There hasn't been a transition
- [Magical Timperley Tour](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1666/magical-timperley-tour/)
- [Kristine Lowe: Do you remember back when revealing an opinion could get you fired?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/914/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]
- [Is Flipboard that 'just good enough' RSS reader?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/908/is-flipboard-that-just-good-enough-rss-reader/) - A few posts ago I postulated that for most people, for most types of 'news' algorithms based around attention and the social graph may well be almost good enough to replace the idea of subscribing to RSS feeds of content directly. And then Flipboard came along. Flipboard is a news reader for the iPad with
- [The public/private problem](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/905/the-publicprivate-problem/) - People in difficult situations have always relied on dark humour to get them through, police, doctors, solders are well known for it. Private grief or impotent horror at public events produces jokes or thoughts that are not always palatable. It was always thus, I’m sure you can remember school-yard jokes about major disasters, I’m sure
- ["Just good enough" and why RSS readers might be skip-tech](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/901/just-good-enough-and-why-rss-readers-might-be-skip-tech/) - As I said, I don't see QR codes ever being widely accepted in the UK, easier and lower impact methods of getting to the right web content have already started to take over. They'll be skipped, be skip-tech, because easier to understand methods are "just good enough". This isn't an isolated incident. The rise of
- [As if you needed another reason to respect Tom Watson MP](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1665/as-if-you-needed-another-reason-to-respect-tom-watson-mp/) - Sometimes anger is both justified and honourable.
- [Jon Bounds is not impressed by Nick Clegg’s Your Freedom « Labour Uncut](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/897/jon-bounds-is-not-impressed-by-nick-cleggs-your-freedom-labour-uncut/) - There are blog posts pulling apart the new Your Freedom website, but this is mine. [link]
- [Skip-Tech — be careful what you back](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/889/skip-tech-—-be-careful-what-you-back/) - I've have three separate conversations about QR (Quick Response) codes, which lead me to wonder if there were at last reaching some kind of mainstream use or at least critical mass. If you've not come across them, they're a two dimensional bar-code (conventional barcodes are only one dimensional, the width of the black and white
- [O2 New Street Birmingham Insurance Rip-Off](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1664/o2-new-street-birmingham-insurance-rip-off/) - 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 (and it won't cost me much once I recycle the old 3G - and the battery was dying). I decided to stay with O2,
- [Hashtag usage — a survey](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/885/hashtag-usage-—-a-survey/) - I'm very interested in the motivation behind uses of hashtags on Twitter — I have a feeling that they are more created than searched. I would be very interested to see Twitter Search stats — to see how many people actually look at collections hashtagged content rather than just pump them out because it seems
- [One Sunday, and Saturday, with Sidie](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1663/one-sunday-and-saturday-with-sidie/) - I really can't put my finger on where I first came across Frank Sidebottom, logic would dictate that I'd have spied him on one of his regular appearances on Number 73 but there aren't any memories I can dredge up. I know I watched it every so often, but apart from the theme tune there's
- [What a Social Media 'Expert' needs to know](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/881/what-a-social-media-expert-needs-to-know/) - Another amusing bit of backlash against 'social media experts' from b3ta's monekon who's 'day job' is as a web developer. It's funny, even if I wonder where he's getting the money bit from, it aint like that round this way. As I see it we (web developers and social web types) work on the same
- [The Passion of the Cripes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/865/the-passion-of-the-cripes/) - If you've watched an England game on telly this World Cup, apart from a feeling of ennui matched only it seems by Emile Heskey as he spends another match mostly inhaling the pitch, you'll have gained two things: The knowledge that what the England team lack is passion, monotone decide-to-be-Irish pundit Andy Townsend will have
- [Clever politicians are using the social web to make humanity scaleable, says Jon Bounds « Labour Uncut](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/880/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 I wrote for Labour Uncut. [link]
- [Looking ahead at open, public data- Digital Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/879/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 the provision of services to marginalised groups? It is certainly possible to imagine challenges to services to refugees and asylum seekers or gay teenagers
- [Globalisation? Hmm](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/876/globalisation-hmm/) - 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 City University) chairs a lively debate with guests including Pete Ashton… assessing lifestyle changes implied by new technological tools in the new wave of
- [We know where we are, and is that about all?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/866/we-know-where-we-are-and-is-that-about-all/) - Mapping is about boundaries and scale, watching the recent BBC series about the history of the map you could see how — once the powerful were commissioning — that the placing of boundaries and the scale of each territory (often exaggerated) were the focus. And boundaries were one of the things that open data advocates
- [So just what is Five Minute Mentors? | We Share Stuff](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/860/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](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/859/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 for a new, and very promising looking political blog. [link]
- [24 hours of culture](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/854/24-hours-of-culture/) - Birmingham is currently bidding for the UK's first City of Culture title (this is a dreadful out-of-date link, but DCMS don't seem to be hot on explanation), we're down to the final four and the bid has to be in very soon. I've done some consultancy on the bid's web and digital presence, more of
- [We've won a Webby (almost)](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/850/weve-won-a-webby-almost/) - While it's not made the final shortlist of five, there's still a bit to be proud of as Twitpanto has been made an Honoree (US spelling) in the 2010 Webby Awards in the Net Art category. As that shortlist includes big budget projects like BBC Blast, I don't think we've done badly seeing as it
- [The State of the Internet Operating System - Tim O'Reilly](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/847/the-state-of-the-internet-operating-system-tim-oreilly/) - Tim O'Reilly on the web as a platform, moves toward "the cloud" aren't the half of the debate – there's a battle for who will control the low level services on the web just as much as the desktop. [link]
- [NYC Wifi](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1661/nyc-wifi/) - Some time ago I spent a a while collecting the wifi network names I saw while on my travels around Brum. It's an interesting insight into the minds of those who set them up. In New York for a week and without being able to afford to use 3G on my phone I was sniffing
- [Haircut Menu](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1660/haircut-menu/) - Haircut Menu, Broadway on Flickr - Photo Sharing!. Spotted in the window of a barbers on Broadway (hence poor reflection and that). I'll have a number 24 please.
- [Hashtags, A new challenge to idiots](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/799/hashtags-a-new-chalenge-to-idiots/) - Apparently the Olympics suffer from 'Ambush Marketing', meaning that if they don't stop other people doing adverts that are a bit like they have something to do with the event then the official sponsorships aren't worth as much dosh. It's all about scarcity, just like how TV rights are only worth so much if you
- [Dead Trees](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/806/dead-trees/) - As if I didn't have enough to do I'm working towards launching a magazine. Not just me, my good friend Danny Smith is my partner in this foolhardy enterprise. We're both of the opinion that there are a lot of good writers that don't have the opportunity to stretch themselves — and that commercial magazines
- [The curious case of Masal Bugduv](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1659/the-curious-case-of-masal-bugduv/) - The curious case of Masal Bugduv: a made up Moldovan footballer is "about to sign" for Arsenal, Liverpool and Reading(?) but is the work of a fine prankster.
- [Football and cats](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/797/football-and-cats/) - I always think that you can explain almost anything in terms of football or cats, and those of you who have seen me talk with probably of heard about one or the other — what I'm really doing is using smaller examples to explain big concepts. Football has given me another great example over the
- [Hashtags and the desire to own and organise](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/792/hashtags-and-the-desire-to-own-and-organise/) - One of my favourite books on social technology is 'Everything Is Miscellaneous' by David Weinberger — a book about the power of disorder, that's disorder in information organisation rather than the more visceral milk bottles, petrol and rags sense. It's a book that will leave your head bursting with the potential of information, its sharing
- [Know your place](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/790/know-your-place/) - I'm speaking at this next Wednesday, although how much freelancers have to learn from the way I work I'm not sure (maybe it'll be what not to do). Know Your Place (which sounds a bit Frost Report to me) "Find out first-hand how freelancers in the world of illustration, photography, writing, design, PR, Publishing and
- [Cat News In Briefs](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1655/cat-news-in-briefs/) - The Sun publish News in Briefs, which is simply-written right-wing content supposedly said by topless model. So Jon Hickman thought it would work with boobs swapped out for kitties… Friday, January 22nd - HOLLIE, 22, from Manchester HOLLIE is furious that we?re shelling out for a battery of crackpot laws by Labour. She said: ?Whoever
- [Huge list of tools for visualising data](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/789/huge-list-of-tools-for-visualising-data/) - When people talk "mash-ups" they often really mean interesting ways of viewing data. This is a huge list of mostly free tools for doing that visualisation. [link]
- [Dandies and Fops of the British Isles](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1654/dandies-and-fops-of-the-british-isles/) - With huge inspirational thanks to a drunken discussion with Pete Ashton, Fiona Cullinan, Michael Grimes, Mark CyBrum and Alex Hughes (I think, I was drunk…) I present an identification chart to all of the well dressed and non-so well intentioned members of society. Dig the lovely pencil work:
- [RSC Friends](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/787/rsc-friends/) - Pleased to see the RSC Friends (a subscription group who are fans of the RSC) starting to use their blog. I did a day of training with them last year, most were very new to the idea of blogging but enthusiasm for their subject is carrying them through. They're planning to use it a little
- [There are more Questions than Answers](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1653/there-are-more-questions-than-answers/) - formspring/bounder
- [Wordpress MU for BEN PCT](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/780/wordpress-mu-for-ben-pct/) - That hail of acronyms is my way of announcing that the new site for the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust that I've been consulting on is now live to the public. It's based on a Wordpress MU (multi-user) installation, which will allow the team to very quickly set a new site live for
- [My new music blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1652/my-new-music-blog/) - fuckyeahobscuretunes where I'm going to try to post an obscure tune a day.
- [Bonus Cats](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1651/bonus-cats/) - I've started a new tumblog, it's for collecting instances of "bonus cats" in the media or it real life. A bonus cat is an unexpected cat in a medium where the cat is not the focus, eg the cat on roof on Corrie titles, or a cat that lives in a pub. The site is
- [Twitpanto 2009 — The Sequel](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/775/twitpanto-2009-—-the-sequel/) - After proving that online pantomime could work last year, I wasn't sure that I wanted to repeat the trick — but eventually the lure of doing it again with the experience of how it went before proved too much. It does take a long time to organise, and I wanted to do something more complex
- [Twitpanto 2009](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/771/twitpanto-2009/) - Last year I wrote and "directed" (what I believe to have been) the first proper piece of drama on Twitter — Twitpanto. I still think it's the only time that attempts to integrate theatre with the social web have gone further than people copying and pasting their lines — or awful "chose what happens next"
- [Memes at WxWM](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/555/555/) - SxSWi (South by Southwest) is a big conference of "interactive media" types in Austin Texas. WxWM is a slightly smaller and much more hastily organised (but brilliant and fun) gathering held last weekend in Birmingham (the West Midlands…). There was lots of great stuff, which I may well blog about later, but first the self
- [My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1649/my-twitter-quiz-hell-prospect-magazine/) - idlewild had a song called 'Text Mesaging is Killing the Pub Quiz' - this is a merry dance on its corpse, and we must have one. - My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine.
- [The new Whuffocracy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/766/the-new-whuffocracy/) - The idea of rule by those with the most social capital is explored by Cory Doctrow in his novela 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom'. It doesn't end well, and also considers a future in which the amount of social capital — or 'whuffie' — each person has is easily polled as everyone is
- [Investigative Journalism](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1648/investigative-journalism/)
- [It's coloquial, mate](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/764/its-coloquial-mate/) - Lots of good clean fun on Twitter this morning where Paul Miller (@rellimluap) pointed to an "Australian Fix My Street". It's just a mock-up, created at the Canberra govhack hack day, but it's great — mainly because of it's title: A lovely dose of self-aware humour "it's buggered mate" — which I think is an
- [Birmingham Music Map](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/759/birmingham-music-map/) - 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 and related culture. One idea I came up with was to map people's music emotional attachments. Not just musicians or venues or bands, but
- [10 local government social media myths](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/758/10-local-government-social-media-myths/) - Nice bit of mythbusting — most of which apply to all sorts of situations: [link]
- [Why might you need social media help?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/752/why-might-you-need-social-media-help/) - I've always struggled to explain what I do for a living, I help people with social media — in varying ways. Why would they need help? Without going into every example for individual cases — which can take a huge amount of time to be anything more than the most general — I think an
- [Make things](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/749/make-things/) - I've recently worked on the social media coverage, on the day but also a few "wrap up" pieces, of the Hello Digital Festival in Birmingham. There were interesting talks, I found those outside my areas of expertise and interest (the Innovation in Gaming panel especially). Sion Simon's address, which I didn't have time to concentrate
- [What does hyperlocal mean? And what does that mean for news?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/747/what-does-hyperlocal-mean-and-what-does-that-mean-for-news/) - Local is local for different people for different reasons — some to do with legislature, economics, transport, facilities, people, even "community" (another word with little definite meaning). Local in newsgathering has been based upon technologies (eg transmitter placement) or economies of scale (how many towns can a newspaper serve on the same staff?) — but
- [Data Visualisation](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1647/data-visualisation/)
- [C&binet on the future of local news](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/744/cbinet-on-the-future-of-local-news/) - I spent a fascinating couple of days down in that London at an gathering of those interested in the future of local news — organised by Sion Simon (Minister for Creative Industries) at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, who are hoping to have got some useful ideas for future legislation (the Digital Economy Bill)Â
- [Credit cards and store cards: an official translation](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/743/credit-cards-and-store-cards-an-official-translation/) - Corinne at Simply Understand has been voluntarily translating consultations into understandable English for about a year — even crowdsoursing as to which were the most important to give their time to. This great work has obviously been noticed by the team at BIS who have asked her to produce a version of their Credit and store
- [Bounded groups - fast changing overlapping networks](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/661/bounded-groups-fast-changing-overlapping-networks/) - You may have heard of, and I've mentioned before, the Dunbar number (which reflects the limit of the number of people with which you can maintain social relationships). You can supposedly cope with around 150 people, but this seem doesn't to tally with our online experiences. It seem that we can hold many more relationships,
- [Passive Agressive Email Marketing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1645/passive-agressive-email-marketing/) - Got this today from CoTweet (which I like, it's really the only CRM service for Twitter): "CoTweet is not for everyone. It's designed for teams who are managing the front-line of the real-time web for their organizations. It's for people committed to engaging customers in authentic two-way conversations, rather than just broadcasting messages to followers.…
- [West Wing — it's the Manics for the over 30s](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1644/west-wing-its-the-manics-for-the-over-30s/) - Not that the Manics aren't now for the over 30s too. Think about it, long complicated sentences that struggle to fill the available time, politics references you don't get first time — AND Bradley Whitford looks a bit like James Dean Bradfield.
- [Geo Attention Mapping by Bookmarking](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/733/geo-attention-mapping-by-bookmarking/) - It's something I've been going on about for a long time, but as an exercise in explaining it quickly I entered it as a proposal in MySociety's Call for Proposals 2009. Here's what I wrote: Describe your idea: A new delicious tagging plugin that also harnesses the power of location services — so that it
- [Maptivism: Maps for activism, transparency and engagement : crisscrossed blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/732/maptivism-maps-for-activism-transparency-and-engagement-crisscrossed-blog/) - "It is estimated as much as 80% of data contains geo-referenced information. So, a lot of information can be displayed through maps. Digital maps allow easy ways to present large amounts of data and reduce complexity." Nice introduction to some mapping concepts, with examples: [link]
- [Are hyperlinks still hyper enough?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/692/are-hyperlinks-still-hyper-enough/) - It's the link economy, it's the foundation of the World Wide Web, it's the reason for the funny "aitch tee tee pee" that still confuses people when reading out URLs, but is the hyperlink dying? Or at least falling into dull maturity? Let me explain: I've been a bit fluey this week and haven't been
- [Greenbelt Talks mp3s](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/695/greenbelt-talks-mp3s/) - For your downloading pleasure: [audio:http://bounder.podomatic.com/enclosure/2009-09-06T16_19_49-07_00.mp3]Birmingham [audio:http://bounder.podomatic.com/enclosure/2009-09-06T16_19_49-07_00.mp3]11-11-11 [audio:http://bounder.podomatic.com/enclosure/2009-09-01T08_14_37-07_00.mp3]Memes
- [Greenbelt 09 - Memes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/690/greenbelt-09-memes/) - This is my third talk, it's an amalgam of this talk on memes from WxWM and this one on internet culture. I can't get the videos to embed, but think you can probably guess what's happening anyway: I'm from the internetsView more presentations from Jon Bounds. The festival may have better quality mp3s available (recorded
- [Greenbelt 09 - Birmingham: It's Not Shit](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/687/greenbelt-09-birmingham-its-not-shit/) - 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 Not Shit View more presentations from Jon Bounds. The festival may have better quality mp3s available (recorded from the mixing desk) I'll post links
- [Greenbelt 09 - 11-11-11](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/684/greenbelt-09-11-11-11/) - Does a festival want to hear about my theories of conversational pyschogeography and how I coerced people into spending eleven hours on a bus that stops where it starts? Quite a few people did, and even stopped to ask questions at the end. Here are the slides and my recording of the audio for the
- [The Future of Reality TV](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1642/the-future-of-reality-tv/) - Channel 4 have announced that they're giving up with Big Brother after the next series — although a dedicated web show for 2011 would be my guess — they've tried fiddling with the format, bunging more and more people in, making more and more stuff happen. They've cut the "my god, who wants to watch
- [How PR works](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1641/how-pr-works/) - I think we know this already, "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002. Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are
- [Lists and aggregators, do it for yourself](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/680/lists-and-aggregators-do-it-for-yourself/) - Yahoo started as a list of "cool sites" on the web, the founders categorised all the stuff they found on a site called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" — they just linked to things they liked. As web search was in it's infancy (remember Lycos and Alta-Vista?) people liked the idea
- [Le Nombrilisme](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1640/le-nombrilisme/) - [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6115666[/vimeo] Le Nombrilisme from bounder on Vimeo. A little film I made for this.
- [Did success peak in 2004?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1639/did-sucess-peak-in-2004/) - One of the quirks of news reporting that amuses me most is when things are "hailed a success". It a lovely phrase to report on all sorts of projects, especially where the success or failure conditions weren't laid out before-hand or, in my suspicious mind, for projects that the numbers show weren't that successful at
- [Greenbelt blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/679/greenbelt-blog/) - 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 mainly doing Birmingham and psychogeography, with a little bit of internets thrown in. [link]
- [You are not your brand online — and especially not on Twitter](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/670/you-are-not-your-brand-online-— and-especially-not-on-twitter/) - Yes, good interaction on the social web is all about personality. But. Brands aren't people, they don't have friends, desires, dislikes. They don't have time off. People do. So if you've decided that a Twitter account for your brand is the way to go, think very hard about the separation between YOU and THE BRAND
- [Goverment Dept. Twitter Strategy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/664/goverment-dept-twitter-strategy/) - Neil Williams, head of corporate digital channels at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), has turned BIS's Twitter strategy into a generic template Twitter strategy for government Departments. It's a fascinating document, and very useful and extendable to other organisations (with tweaking). Basically this sort of thing (or thought about strategy at the
- [The End of the Line](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1638/the-end-of-the-line/) - When I organised the 11-11-11 eleven hours on the eleven bus day I didn't make it too clear to people that it was art — it tends to put people off. But I've had a slightly different version of the idea, one that's simultaneously easier to get involved with and has a wider remit. The
- [Hyperlocal News Wire](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/645/hyperlocal-news-wire/) - 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 of investigation and experimentation that I've been able to find the time to do thanks to Will Perrin and his hyperlocal blogging initiative Talk
- [Open data may need to change the way data is collected and stored](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/643/open-data-may-need-to-change-the-way-data-is-collected-and-stored/) - 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 care about parking fines, but because of the opportunity to see some of the huge chucks of data that we're all pressing for release
- [Blogging and Pyschogeography](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/641/blogging-and-pyschogeography/) - My talk at Moseley Barcamp, based on this post about Conversational Psychogeography. Moseley BarCamp - Blogging & Psychogeography from bounder on Vimeo. Audio by the award winning Rhubarb Radio & also available here. Listen to all the other talks here. A wonderful day, thanks to everyone who either came, spoke or organised (Shona and the
- [Sweary News](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1636/sweary-news/) - I and she do a radio show, The Big Paws, on the award winning Rhubarb Radio. This isn't a plea to listen to that (although please do), but to give a little focus on a bit of the show that you may not have heard. The Sweary News is the news, but sweary. It's funnier
- [Are MPs happy?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/638/are-mps-happy/) - And don't worry this isn't going to be a rant about expenses. At Moseley Barcamp I gave a presentation about 'conversational psychogeography' and the potential for an explosion in data analysis of emotions and place. It was a very broad overview and I continually admitted that real research needed to be done (I'd love to
- [Random Acts Of Reality :: Rebuttal](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1635/random-acts-of-reality-rebuttal/) - "I was somewhat perturbed. Actually I was flaming furious. You see, despite the mistakes, it also implies other things." Random Acts Of Reality Probably a much better example of what I was taling about here.
- [Will Perrin on Digital Britain](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/634/will-perrin-on-digital-britain/) - Someone I did get to talk to at the Digital Britian was Will Perrin of Talk About Local — a new project to : " give people in their communities a powerful online voice. We want to help people communicate and campaign more effectively and influence events in the places in which they live, work
- [Not interviewing Lord Carter](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/632/not-interviewing-lord-carter/) - 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 Fazeley Studios for Rhubarb Radio. In the end it didn't happen, the Minister wanted a break — that's fair, and to be honest his
- [Digital Britian Launch in Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/630/digital-britian-launch-in-birmingham/) - Tomorrow I'm going along to the Digital Britain event in Birmingham at the ICC: "the first opportunity for regional experts to review the report’s contents and to quiz Lord Carter directly on its recommendations." Rhubarb Radio are covering the event live, and I'll be doing something (not sure what yet) as part of that coverage.
- [Save Our Sounds - Audio Map](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/629/save-our-sounds-audio-map/) - The BBC World Service is creating an audio map of the World, with user submitted sounds. No tagging unfortunately, and the description box is likely to be nudged towards the descriptive rather than the emotional but some interesting stuff to be had nonetheless — let's hope the database is opened up. [link]
- [Midlands Media Awards People's Choice](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/627/midlands-media-awards-peoples-choice/) - Big City Talk is up for the Midlands Media Awards People’s Choice Award. The awards are to "recognise an individual or group that has used social media tools to make a difference". The Brum Bloggers Social Media Surgeries are also on the list, as is the 4am Project. [link]
- [Guido Fawkes and his blog comment policy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/625/guido-fawkes-an-his-blog-comment-policy/) - Although his political blog is often a place for sniping and argumentative comments (following perhaps in the style of the posts), this is a very clear piece of work. It sets out in a friendly (as friendly as the blog gets), conversational, tone just what is and isn't allowed in the comments on order-order.com. While
- [I'm like Moses, but for Twitter - Paul Carr lays down his 10 Commandments | Technology | guardian.co.uk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1634/im-like-moses-but-for-twitter-paul-carr-lays-down-his-10-commandments-technology-guardiancouk/) - "Commandment Nine: Thou shalt not retweet compliments This phenomenon I really don't understand, especially not when it's my British friends doing it (Americans get their usual shamelessness pass). So someone complimented you or your business on Twitter? Great! I'm pleased for you, I really am. But RT'ing the compliment? You might as well stand in
- [WxWM2 Audio](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/623/wxwm2-audio/) - Thanks to the wonderful guys at Rhubarb Radio (where I also do the Saturday breakfast show, plug plug) the improvised talk on my personal journey towards communities online from WxWM2 is now available as audio. Not only is it the full talk, and good quality, but you don't have to look at me waving my
- [WxWM2](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/621/wxwm2/) - A week or so ago I did an impromptu talk at WxWM2 (a gathering of the social media interested) in Brum — it was very much an unconference format so I wasn't sure I was going to say anything at all. However a slot arose and I talked for about 20 minutes about how I
- [Richard Herring bypasses "broadcast" with new show](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1633/richard-herring-bypasses-broadcast-with-new-show/) - "a new sketch/stand up show that I am going to be doing on Monday nights in the autumn at the Leicester Sq theatre and which will be released on iTunes. It's called, "As It Occurs To me" and it's going to made up of things I have thought about that week and reconstructions of stuff
- [Is this 'unique' or are the media keeping people dumb?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1632/is-this-unique-or-are-the-media-keeping-people-dumb/) - 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 reverse graffiti, they — mistakenly one would assume — used it on a monument (that it's a monument isn't immediately obvious, if you don't
- [BrumEmoMap](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/619/brumemomap/) - A wonderful and quick mash-up of Twitter and Flickr data, mapped with Yahoo, BrumEmoMap is a great example of the first thread of my Conversational Psychogeography idea. It allows people to tag place with emotion by using tweets or Flickr photos: Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! While it isn't doing anything with the data — yet
- [Conversational Psychogeography — mapping real life with the social web](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/612/conversational-psychogeography-—-mapping-real-life-with-the-social-web/) - Psychogeography can be sort of explained as the geography of emotion, the relation between place and feeling. The first attempt to formalise it was in the 50's by various Lettritsts and while they were concentrating firmly on the urban (and architecture in particular) the idea was something that continued and was further worked on by
- [LocalGovCamp](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/613/localgovcamp/) - I'm attending LocalGovCamp, and I'll let the blurb explain: "LocalGovCamp is an unconference for local government. Taking place on 20 June 2009, at the Fazeley Studios in Birmingham, it will be a gathering of people interested in how local government needs to adapt to a world of social networks and data sharing." I'm planning to
- [My interview with David Shrigley](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/611/my-interview-with-david-shrigley/) - It seems a long time since I interviewed one of my favourite artists, but it's out now in the latest issue of the great Fused Magazine. [link]
- [Seventeen things that people are actually saying when they retweet others - meish dot org: life, unfolding](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/610/seventeen-things-that-people-are-actually-saying-when-they-retweet-others-meish-dot-org-life-unfolding/) - "Retweeting (that is, repeating someone else’s tweet, with attribution) has emerged from daily twittering habits and has become part of Twitter’s cultural vocabulary. The idea of rebroadcasting something interesting/funny you’ve spotted isn’t new, and the custom of acknowledging your sources isn’t particularly revolutionary either, but what is interesting is that not all retweets (RTs) are
- [Yahoo's When isn't so hot on where](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1631/yahoos-when-isnt-so-hot-on-where/) - Supposedly "hyperlocal" thing from Yahoo, hasn't quite got the "local" bit, yet. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
- [Better environments, Better lives](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/609/better-environments-better-lives/) - I'm doing a little bit of blogging on this site, with Nick Booth, kicked off by a conference, it’s all based around the theme of environmental justice. The idea is to encourage debate on how people can "breathe new life into the poorest environments, from neglected rivers to brownfield land sites, ensur[ing] environmental improvements are
- [Cultural Mapping - interactivecultures](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/608/cultural-mapping-interactivecultures/) - A post I've written about a trip into academia, a cultural mapping symposium at Liverpool University. The guys at BCU were kind enough to sort it out for me, it really had my head buzzing with new map-based projects and ideas. Much more to come on this I think. [link]
- [Commentable Classifieds](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/605/commentable-classifieds/) - Here's a quick idea I had during a discussion at JEECamp: Papers have long been the place people made "announcements" — births, deaths and marriages — they still see this as an important service and revenue generator. It is however being fast made redundant by Facebook — where not only is it easy to make
- [‘Safe hands’ Stott fails to inspire - so far | Puffbox.com](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/604/safe-hands-stott-fails-to-inspire-so-far-puffboxcom/) - Wise words as ever from Simon about the appointment of the Government's new Director of Digital Engagement. [link]
- [Twitter Replies](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/599/twitter-replies/) - A good while ago I wrote a long post about problems with the Twitter @reply system — Twitter it seems have been trying to fix this, but causing problems (see #fixreplies). I may humbly suggest that the now updated post is worth a read.
- [Missing out on Twitter conversations - is the network straining at the limits?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/445/missing-out-on-twitter-conversations-is-the-network-straining-at-the-limits/) - I have a twitter problem. It's not addiction, despite recently breaking the 3,000 tweet barrier, nor is it that I keep seeing the Fail Whale (not seen him for a while, and miss the old non-fish). It's the increasing number of gaps in conversations. At times I'm finding it like ambient networking with Norman Collier.
- [Alan Bennett on TV: nostalgia laced with insight and subversion ...](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1630/alan-bennett-on-tv-nostalgia-laced-with-insight-and-subversion/) - Nice historical round-up of Bennet's TV appearances. - Alan Bennett on TV: nostalgia laced with insight and subversion ....
- [Meme culture and how it builds community](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/596/meme-culture-and-how-it-builds-community/) - On Friday I gave a talk to Pete Ashton's Metapod Connect course. It was a gentle introduction to how memes can work on the web, and how the culture around them creates other (some would say…) more useful things too. This is a recording of the the talk (complete with the odd giggle, a few
- [I can has burgerwastage](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1629/i-can-has-burgerwastage/) - We had burgers for tea last night. I had veggie, Jules has meat. I always get astounded by how little meat burgers are when cooked, so I thought I'd record it: Veggie not shrinking, of course. And just so you can see how much the meat ones do shrink:
- [11 route, frame-by-frame](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1628/11-route-frame-by-frame/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! YooouuuTuuube sort of cascades You Tube vids frame-by-frame across your browser. Hypnotic.
- [Susan Boyle Swine Flu Sex and MPs](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1625/susan-boyle-swine-flu-sex-and-mps/) - Local MP Sion Simon (finding his way on Twitter) ReTweeted a (vaguely amusing, but not ear-shatteringly funny) witicism: "I’m not saying Susan Boyle caused swine flu. I’m just saying that nobody had swine flu, she sang on TV, people got swine flu.” It's about Now Show standard, topical, smirk-worthy rather than a belly-laugh — what
- [FLOSS Manuals](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/593/floss-manuals/) - A project to provide open source manuals to open source software. Excellent stuff. [link]
- [Act now to save the hinternet](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/587/act-now-to-save-the-hinternet/) - This week's news that Yahoo are to close and shut GeoCities (one of the first free hosting sites on the web) could be a big disaster for the amount of knowledge available online. Yahoo aren't offering any options to transfer the sites to new servers, nor any redirection service — this has the potential to
- [The Twitterlizer & Digital Inclusion](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/583/the-twitterlizer-digital-inclusion/) - Last week I used a Sweetcron installation, a red pen, some cardboard and scissors to build The Twitterlizer (excuse the American spelling). It aggregates mentions of the phrase "digitally included" from across the social web, YouTube, flickr, 12 seconds, blogs, Twitter — especially Twitter, if you're logged in to Twitter it will even tweet for
- [Simply Understand, translating Consultations](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/582/simply-understand-translating-consultations/) - Corinne Pritchard voluntarily translates into Plain English various consultations put out by government. In this blog post she explains here reasons and motivation. Oh that this weren't necessary, but Corinne does a fantastic job: "There's more to the story than this, as a lot of my personal motivation comes from how much bright, articulate people
- [A false sense of literacy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1624/a-false-sence-of-litteracy/) - Nice piece in the NYT about how there's a system for chosing ten of the thousands of letters sent daily to ol'Bazaa Obama to actualy reach him: “We pick messages that are compelling, things people say that, when you read it, you get a chill,” said Mr. Kelleher. I think a random ten would be
- [Media Skills Masterclass with Creative Republic](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/580/media-skills-masterclass-with-creative-republic/) - This coming Tuesday (21st April) I'm one of the speakers at a "Media Skills Masterclass" for the creative industries. I'll be talking about the differences between getting mainstream media to talk about your product and building conversation around it online. In particular: "why listening to "the internet" is more important than publishing". There with me
- [Birmingham - Open (Data) City](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/579/birmingham-open-data-city/) - Interesting news about central government funding for Birmingham to pilot opening up city council data online, could be excellent news if it doesn't get too bogged down in process and uses the "open" idea for everything it does. I have high hopes. [link]
- [Geotag the Internet - my rejected 4iP project](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1620/geotag-the-internet-my-rejected-4ip-project/) - Continuing this week's them of rejection (a bloke could get paranoid), I've just heard that my (more in hope than expectation) 4iP project has been knocked back. If you don't know what 4iP is then a quick look at their website should help, if you don't care then it doesn't matter (basically, funding for "public
- [ Wire And Punk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1619/wire-and-punk/) - "Wire were always at odds with the rest of the late 70s punks. In today's extract from Wilson Neate's 33 1/3 book on Pink Flag, we find out why"The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | On Wire And Punk: An Extract From The 33 1/3 Book On Pink Flag
- [Fiction](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1618/fiction/) - I don't write fiction much, haven't for years, but I decided to see if I could knock something out for Tindal Street Press's Roads Ahead compilation. The brief was simply a "substantial short story", which I took it on myself to write overnight — as tight to the deadline for submission as possible. Turns out,
- [A degree about Facebook, Twitter and Bebo](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/576/a-degree-about-facebook-twitter-and-bebo/) - I was going to write a long post in defence of Birmingham City University's new MA in Social Media after it got an inevitable, but still sad, "shock horror" response from the press (eg. in the Telegraph), but luckily David Stuart has already done that for me: "Being able to use blogs, social networks, twitter,
- [Do we mean "social" or do we mean "conversational"?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/572/do-we-mean-social-or-do-we-mean-conversational/) - I've never been entirely happy with the term "social media", to me it doesn't seem to describe anything — it was a term that sort of stuck for the want of anything good to describe the "whole sort of general mish-mash" of people communicating online. "Social" is a particularily meaningless word, or actually what I
- [Thomas Payne - father of blogging](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/568/thomas-payne-father-of-blogging/) - I was going to write a huge long blog post about this, and I still might, but inspired by Nick Booth - here it is as just a statement. If Guttenburg's press is the Internet, Thomas Paine is the stirings of the social web. And you're invited to flesh out my theory for me...
- [Google's magic anus](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1617/googles-magic-anus/) - Created by the way Google has stitched two of its Street View panoramas in Smethwick, take the advert for a filum and a moving bus and, oops:
- [Life in Lozells, another good local blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/565/life-in-lozells-another-good-local-blog/) - 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 March 2007, and is an invaluable resource for local info — but Kate is interested in building more of a community around it, generating
- [Google Street View fly-by](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1616/google-street-view-fly-by/) - Using a route planner for Google Maps, and a screen capture app to capture the screen. This is sort of what it would look like to drive from King's Heath towards the town centre — the route was going further, but there were gaps in which roads were covered by Street View.
- [Google 'censor' cute overload, but not the FSM](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1615/google-censor-cute-overload-but-not-the-fsm/) - This is the back end of my car on Google Streetview - notice how the "privacy" of my car has been maintained by the blurring out of the number plate (waste of time if you ask me, especially as next door's number plate is viewable). The back of my car is adorned with adornments, you
- [First cat on Google Streetview UK - and it's Felix from next door](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1614/first-cat-on-google-streetview-uk-and-its-felix-from-next-door/) - I thought I'd got myself on the the Google Streetview, but they must have taken photos going both ways up our road. They did capture young Felix from next door. I'm loving going round spotting things, more soon.
- [The17](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1612/the17/) - I've just had a email inviting me to be in The17 for a "performance" in April (St George's Day). I'm stupidly excited.
- [Good causes, but didn't it used to be funny?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1611/good-causes-but-didnt-it-used-to-be-funny/) - It’s a box-ticking, event-telly-by-numbers mentality, and it made for the most tedious and unsatisfying Comic Relief Night since…the last one. These jamborees are not getting any better as they get older. They’re not getting any better as you get older either. The silliness of their - and your - early years is long gone. Likewise
- [Danny Smith on when comedy is "just a bit shit"](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1610/danny-smith-on-when-comedy-is-just-a-bit-shit/) - "Wehn is a German fella that’s looks like a cross between a scrotal sack and a sock puppet made by an abusive uncle, and his entire act rests on his nationality, and our own racist perceptions of it. Now some of you are thinking “Wow, his act must be a post-modern critique of nationalist perceptions,
- [Cat 'eat' crunch three ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1608/cat-eat-crunch-three/) - In my continting series of photos on the packets of cat-food: Brekkies is a once mighty brand fallen to the odd appearances in Wilko, and this tabby has felt the sting of every rung of that ladder on the way down. He's landed on his feet, but you can see the upward glance to the
- [Tetoris](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1606/tetoris/) - it's 'HD' Tetris, impossible. - Tetoris.
- [What New Yorkers Like and Don't Like About Their City - Interactive Graphic](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/552/what-new-yorkers-like-and-dont-like-about-their-city-interactive-graphic/) - The New York Time pulls together all sorts of crime, education and satisfaction data for the city onto a map - it's a shame that you can't overlay and correlate different data sets, but it's interesting nonetheless. [link]
- [Cat-eat crunch two - bargain edition ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1605/cat-eat-crunch-two-bargain-edition/) - So, we've established that cats on the packets of cheap brands of cat food don't look too happy. But can we prove the correlation by delving deaper into the bowels of cheapness. To that end I took a trip to a store that prides itself on nothing more that its low price — B&M Bargains.
- [We were on the radio](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/595/we-were-on-the-radio/) - And it was loads of fun, I'm sure we made loads of balls ups but I'm too scared to listen again to it. You can tho' (if you like):
- [Campaign for Real Heritage](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1604/campaign-for-real-heritage/) - Are you fed up with "officials" deciding what's important? Do you wish that history wasn't just written by the winners? The losers, the outsiders, the real people have history too. It deserves recognition, YOUR history deserves a blue plaque. So now it can have one, the Campaign for Real Heritage will place a plaque anywhere,
- [An interview with an anonymous blog commenter by Joanna Geary](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/551/an-interview-with-an-anonymous-blog-commenter-by-joanna-geary/) - Jo, Development Editor of the Birmingham Post, talks to Richard who "regularly comments on The Birmingham Post blogs under the pseudonym “Clifford” and, it is fair to say, has developed quite a bit of a reputation as a curmudgeon. But, despite his criticisms of The Post, he has stuck with us even when we didn’t
- [Straight 8, super 8, gr8](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1603/straight-8-super-8-gr8/) - "Entries are now open for this year’s Straight 8 competition. For those of you not in the know, Straight 8 invites filmmakers to make a film on a single cartridge of super 8 film and enter it undeveloped and unedited to the competition (with an original soundtrack). Then you just sit back and wait to
- [Me on Midlands Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/544/me-on-midlands-today/) - They spelt my name wrong, actually prompting me to buy johnbounds.co.uk to point here too, but here is the feature on Midlands Today in which I briefly, er, featured: Thanks by the way to all those whose Twitter brains I picked beforehand for what to say too.
- [What did I just join again?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1600/what-did-i-just-join-again/) - I noticed today, not sure how long it's been going on, that you can now (if you're an admin) change the name of a Facebook group. You didn't used to be able to, which is one reason there are so many groups with typos or spelling mistakes in the names. I thought this was a
- [Online Protest - does it work?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/534/online-protest-does-it-work/) - The answer: yes, sometimes and sometimes in conjunction with offline activity. Does offline protesting work? Sometimes. I've done a quick interview for BBC Midlands Today about online protesting, they're interested because Birmingham's LDV van maker is campaigning for government help and while the situation is continuing the company are using a blog as well as
- [Some thoughts on good meetings - Jon Hickman's posterous](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1599/some-thoughts-on-good-meetings-jon-hickmans-posterous/) - "love the fact that "good meeting" is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying "er"." I did have a good meeting with Mr Hickman the other day, too. - Some thoughts on good meetings - Jon Hickman's
- [Local government shouldn't be on Facebook](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/533/local-government-shouldnt-be-on-facebook/) - Interesting post by Simon Wakeman, where he puts into words what many have been thinking about how organisations (non-governmental too) use Facebook "I don’t think councils should have a presence on Facebook for themselves as a council. I think it’s the wrong approach and I think it misses the point about the way people interact
- [Chinese Twispers](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1598/chinese-twispers/) - No recriminations or anything, just an interesting thing that happened this morning on the Twitter. I was listening to Radio Five when the sad news that David Cameron's son had died broke. This sort of "news" is normally queue to turn off radio and TV, as there's nothing to be said, but they'll insist on
- [The miner and the copper](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1597/the-miner-and-the-copper/) - Great piece of writing, about t one of the abiding images of the 1984 miners strike - "Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer. But what happened to the two protagonists?". There's also a bit about it on Inside Out, BBC1, 7.30pm 24/2 in Yorkshire, if it appears
- [RSS as legislation](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/532/rss-as-legislation/) - Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought reports that the US Government's new Stimulus bill requires that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS, it's not just unstructured text, but will have to be reusable data. This is a real big deal for standards of data disttibution and re-use. [link]
- [Tea Fu](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1596/tea-fu/) - Tea Fu is the ancient art of persuading others to make you a cuppa. Most often practised in dwellings, the Tea Fu master will use psychological tricksterism as tea always tastes better when someone else has made it. The true master will also attempt workplace Tea Fu. I've made a little twitterbot (using twitter search,
- [Jimmy Hill Verses The Jam](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1595/jimmy-hill-verses-the-jam/) - The other thing we used to do, instead or at the same time as making books, was testing out the capabilities of Flash — by making things like this: From the Wray Archive, animation by me (well the chin bit), flash-ness by Gavin, music by Weller via Motown, chin by Jimmy Hill.
- [Friends and sweary flash](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1594/friends-and-sweary-flash/) - Almost ten years ago, I was working at friends of ED — a web design book firm. The imprint is still going, but is owned by an American publisher rather than two brothers who set up shop in Acock's Green. For a couple of years it rode the "creative" wave of flash design, which in
- [What made me weird](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1578/what-made-me-weird/) - I know I'm weird, most people are but it takes a bit of self awareness and a sort of forthright bravery to admit it. Inspired by this blog post, here's five things that made me weird: Monty Python — or the realisation that humour didn't need to be dumb at least. It's probably the 'Marxism
- [Half Map Half Biscuit ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1593/half-map-half-biscuit/) - A map of everywhere mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Genuis psychogeography.
- [Paul Bradshaw gets Twitter to help do a radio interview](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/530/paul-bradshaw-gets-twitter-to-help-do-a-radio-interview/) - About Twitter of course. What's interesting is not so much how people are very easily able to guess what "the media" with ask about Twitter — but how the responses to the questions varied so widely. Ask people whey they use LinkedIn or Facebook and it's all about "friends" or "business contacts", Twitter is just
- [4 chan](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1592/4-chan/) - Chris Poole, a.k.a. moot, is the creator of 4chan.org - the Washinton Post explores how come he doesn't make any money. Something I can associate with.
- [The quiz that wasn't](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1590/the-quiz-that-wasnt/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch Twestival in Birmingham was so packed with fun that I don't think anyone got time to do the quiz that I'd prepared. So, I present it here - no entry free but you can still donate to Charity:Water if you like. It's here as a PDF: twestival quiz Why not have
- [Radio Free Horse Shit For The Garden](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1589/radio-free-horse-shit-for-the-garden/) - If you like the Two Ronnies your first thought when using the word Rhubarb is probably "manure", but no more. At least until they run out of themes and end up doing a gardening-with-poo based show, Danny Smith et al's Rhubarb Radio show puts all effluent fertilizer thoughts out of my head. It replaced them
- [Why "geeks" aren't helping](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/492/why-geeks-arent-helping/) - Of course people who know about computers or other technology are helping others, and trying to help others to understand what they know — you've only got to pop along to a social media surgery in Birmingham to find that out. And now Manchester people are doing a similar sort of thing too (great!) —
- [Cat-eat Crunch?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1588/cat-eat-crunch/) - Our cats are quite particular about what they eat, they like Whiskas or Felix and only certain flavours, but I'm always on the look out for something to give them a bit of variety. Today in Somerfield I was casting my eyes down the cat food aisle and noticed something. Normally cat food shows a
- [Bad Science needs help, or at least link love](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1587/title/) - Ben Goldacre has had a nastygram from LBC 97.3 and “Global Radio” over posting audio of what he describes as "Jeni Barnett’s MMR scaremongering". If you're in a position to help, it would be appreciated. - Bad Science needs help, or at least link love.
- [Stephen Fry stuck in a lift](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1584/stephen-fry-stuck-in-a-lift/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Stephen Fry is stuck in a lift. Now will this cause Twitpic as much touble as the plane in a river? TwitPic - Share photos on twitter
- [Charlton and the "reallies?"](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1583/charlton-and-the-reallies/) - TV critic and now TV star Charlie Brooker is on Twitter, he calls himself CharltonBrooker, you can tell it's him no-one else could get enough bile into 140 characters. He's an old-school computo-phile (he used to write about computer games, and indeed the computer magazines of the eighties were a fabulous breeding ground for journalists),
- [Freedom Town](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/487/freedom-town/) - Freedom Town is in Sierra Leone, but it's also the name of an art project connecting schools in Birmingham (UK) with schools in Freedom Town. It's being run by the education department of Birmingham's Town Hall & Symphony Hall, along with a local artist and will feature the associate musicians of the organisation. The aim
- [iPhoto sees people everywhere](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1582/iphoto-sees-people-everywhere/) - I've been playing with the new iPhoto '09, it's major selling point is face recognition — it attempts to spot faces in your photos and keep a record of who's where. It makes some brave attempts, but doesn't always make it: First it spotted a face in Bearwood High St. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Then
- [The Bounder](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/485/the-bounder/) - I've moved my personal blog from this site to thebounder.co.uk, which is a Wordpress MU site that I've been using to store quick projects. WordPress MU (Multi User) is great for quickly setting up blogs (or sites) and very powerful in regards to controls over those blogs from a central interface. I used Sandbox to
- [onBirmingham - let's try local news on Twitter](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/482/onbirmingham-lets-try-local-news-on-twitter/) - Twitter is now pretty much established as the place where news can break most quickly — when news happens it's becoming more and more likely a Twitterer will be somewhere nearby, or be one of the first to hear it. But unless it's huge World news whether you hear it quickly (or at all) is
- [Momus on Matt McGinn](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1579/momus-on-matt-mcginn/) - Scottish songwriter and aesthete Momus on Matt McGinn — "communist, atheist, republican, and perhaps Scotland's most interesting satirical songwriter" [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hUogk0VhaQQ]
- [DIYcity: reinventing your city by building web apps](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/481/diycity-reinventing-your-city-by-building-web-apps/) - A very interesting looking site, that wants people to try and test their ideas about using the web to help improve our living spaces. "Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps - we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to
- [Putting up goal nets as a metaphor for life](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1576/putting-up-goal-nets-as-a-metaphor-for-life/) - "Some clubs are fearsomely well organised. They have pegs and a mallet to anchor the net down at the back. They have a chair or a ladder to attach it in the corners, and they have velcro strips to attach it to the crossbar where inevitably the hooks had been torn away by years of
- [Will Jonathan Ross break Twitter?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/480/will-jonathan-ross-break-twitter/) - My latest blog post for the Birmingham post explores what happens when a social network goes mainstream - invariably it stops working. [link]
- [Ze Frank's new blog on online partcipation projects](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/479/ze-franks-new-blog-on-online-partcipation-projects/) - Ze Frank has long been the master of mass participation on the internet, if he's involved with something you can be sure that all the barriers for people to join in have been broken down. He's started a new blog with "notes and advice to someone like me" — which is you if you're going
- [Creative Review on London's new Design Committee](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1575/creative-review-on-londons-new-design-committee/) - "this new Design Advisory Panel will feed into the Design Advisory Forum and will be managed by Design for London, which now sits within the London Development Agency’s Design, Development and Environment Division. Got that? I would hate to be responsible for all the tea and biscuits for that lot. Most design committees are a
- [Problems with nightclubs](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1574/problems-with-nightclubs/) - Apart from the prices, the awful music, the clientelle… "The guy who stands in the toilet all night. I don't like it, there always usually african and get abuse from drunk people. I also sometimes just want to get out of the stinking mens toilet as fast as possible but can't because I can't dry
- [TwitPanto  - Dracos.co.uk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1573/twitpanto-ndash-play-dracoscouk/) - Wonderfully clear version of the twitter panto, pulled together on the fly by a wonderful person. Narrator in pink, cast in blue, backchannel behind you… [link]
- [Feed Me - RSS isn't an option, it's a must](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/454/feed-me-rss-isnt-an-option-its-a-must/) - The Birmingham Post recently published a 'list of shame' of local bodies that don't make their information available by RSS. It's pretty damning, and Birmingham City Council are one of the worst offenders — which a Brummie worries me (and is why I use them as an example here, but it's a problem everywhere, with
- [Hamster On A Piano Eating Popcorn](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1577/hamster-on-a-piano-eating-popcorn/) - Hamster On A Piano Eating Popcorn (via Laughing Squid)
- [Lifestreaming](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/453/lifestreaming/) - I'm trying out a new bit of software called sweetcron - it's a blogging platform of a sort, but it really built for collecting together all the little things you do around the web; things bookmarked on delicious, shared on tumblr, tweeted on twitter. I don't expect that one built as a "lifestream" collecting all
- [30 Ways to Shock Yourself](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1572/30-ways-to-shock-yourself/) - 30 Ways to Shock Yourself Originally uploaded by bre pettis Illustrations from the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern
- [MJ Hibbett - The Advent Calendar Of FACT](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1570/mj-hibbett-the-advent-calendar-of-fact/) - YouTube - The Advent Calendar Of FACT
- [I can't work out if it's a lot](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1569/i-cant-work-out-if-its-a-lot/) - Skitch.com > bounder > Google Reader (1000+)
- [ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook Reader](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1568/manybooksnet-free-ebooks-for-your-pda-iphone-or-ebook-reader/) - I've got a Sony eReader — and I've quickly eaten through the free "classics" that come with it and a number of CC licensed works. Rather than buy books I've start on this site — there are 22,303 eBooks available and all free. [link]
- [Got their number](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1567/got-their-number/) - What's shocking about watching the "live feed" of questions and answers from 118 118's "ask anything you like service", isn't the illiteracy and stupidity of the questions — that's a given — but the illiteracy, stupidity and plain ignorance of the answers: Is it a or b? No. Top line from second hit on google.
- [The only photo tips you'll ever need](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1566/the-only-photo-tips-youll-ever-need/) - "Here’s how to be a photographer: If you follow these steps, you CANNOT fail at getting an art show at a shitty gallery in the city somewhere, and unless you have terrible breath you WILL get laid. If you can’t follow these steps, you will be a BAD PHOTOGRAPHER which is like being bad at
- [Outer Circle Psychogeographical Report](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1565/outer-circle-psychogeographical-report/) - I spent eleven hours on the 11C bus on the 11/11/08. This is a psychogeographical report, it's not a tale of the trip nor an attempt to map or really delve into areas along the eleven route. I'll get to that later, I think. I'm not interested in mapping this, only in the most general
- [Legends of Darts](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1564/legends-of-darts/) - "Duncan Norvelle "Chase me Chase me" fame, has joined with John Lowe, Eric Bristow and the King of Bling, Bobby George, to provide a format that had the audience laughing and clapping with delight."Legends of Darts
- [The Darwin Awards 2008](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1563/the-darwin-awards-2008/) - Including Zoo keeper drowned in elephant shit: Darwin Awards 2008
- [Shouldn't laugh](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1562/shouldnt-laugh/) - But if they tried to "set fires" and flood the place at the same time I'm not surprised that it didn't work.
- [Second Life and the Marxist theory of alienation (Dave's Part)](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1561/second-life-and-the-marxist-theory-of-alienation-daves-part/) - Religion,’ Marx wrote, ‘is indeed the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself or has already lost himself again … It is the fantastic realisation of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. ‘The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of
- [Signing up for the 17](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1560/signing-up-for-the-17/) - Signing up for the 17 Originally uploaded by H4NUM4N I normally hate photos of me, but this is a really good one by hanuman, and the other half — Jules — looks great.
- [The hinternet, the internet we're missing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/449/the-hinternet-the-internet-were-missing/) - There's a new digital divide, a fissure opening wider and wider as the social web makes encroachment into most forms of information. You may have heard of the 'darknets' — unseen networks of computers for filesharing — networks you're only allowed onto if you're trusted not to give the game away. What I think I'm
- [Live blogging from the bus](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/447/live-blogging-from-the-bus/) - I spent over 11 hours on the bus on Tuesday, and got off exactly where I got on. It was art, and I live blogged the whole way. I was also twittering and streaming live video to Qik. It was all part of the project I've been doing over at elevenbus.co.uk. I was really surprised
- [Conduct the Proms - BBC Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/428/conduct-the-proms-bbc-birmingham/) - Temporary interactive for BBC Birmingham. The game allowed the public to 'conduct' an orchestra, by waving a baton at a video screen. The faster they 'conducted' the faster the orchestra would play – or if they 'conducted' too slowly the orchestra would grind to a halt. If they're too out of time for too long
- [Be on Radio at BBC Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/426/be-on-radio-at-bbc-birmingham/) - A permanent exhibit developed for BBC Birmingham's Public Space. 'Be On Radio' is a multi-screen touchscreen experience where users pick a radio station and programme (based upon those broadcasting from BBC Birmingham) and then have a minute to 'broadcast'. The touchscreen acts as a radio desk - with faders and cueing buttons - while instructions
- [Cole - Raine Chartered Surveyors - Wordpress theme and customisation](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/420/cole-raine-chartered-surveyors-wordpress-theme-and-customisation/) - Another site built on Wordpress as a back-end, the Cole-Raine site features brochure pages as well as a fully featured property finder database and article library. The site was built to a design specification supplied and went live in a little under a month from first contact. The property finder was developed using Wordpress' existing
- [Ladder Consulting - bespoke Wordpress theme](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/417/ladder-consulting-bespoke-wordpress-theme/) - Gavin Wray designed this elegant website for management consultancy Ladder Consulting, which I then turned into a Wordpress theme. The site contains a blog, as well as a number of hierarchical pages which are all controlled by Wordpress' easy-to use CMS. The site looks great in all browsers and is very accessible to all.
- [New site for the Birmingham Conservation Trust](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/333/new-site-for-the-birmingham-conservation-trust/) - I've just set the new site for the Birmingham Conservation Trust live. I've advised on how it could work, and done the final coding and design. The Trust is a charity that tasks itself "‘to preserve and enhance Birmingham’s threatened architectural heritage. … to promote an enjoyment and understanding of the city’s historic buildings’". Most
- [BiNS — where too much of my time goes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/403/bins-—-where-too-much-of-my-time-goes/) - Birmingham: It’s Not Shit has been serving up the not-so-ugly truth about Britain’s second city since the time of its failed European Capital of Culture bid in 2003. It continues to attract visitors and publicity, and has become one of the foremost online presences in the area - offering news and comment to as wide
- [Fakebook — what would you put in?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/315/fakebook-—-what-would-you-put-in/) - I working on a site (which I can't reveal yet, it might not even see the light of day) that is basically a fake social-network, populated by characters that don't exist. The main point of it will be the feeling and story generated by the characters and thier interactions, but it's important to get the
- [Black Country Up - Facebook App and more](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/397/black-country-up-facebook-app-and-more/) - I developed and promoted a Facebook application in support of the Black County Urban Park bid for the People's Lottery funding. The application was simple, but showed support in the user's profile an provided direct voting links. I also produced a myspace or blog badge that did the same for other websites.
- [Podnosh — podcasting and blogging](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/395/podnosh-—-podcasting-and-blogging/) - Podnosh.com - a podcasting service - is a site that I designed and developed. The original brief was for a site that allowed uses to build their own podcast channels from the programmes published - they would do that by building a keyword, author or tag search. This was implemented but is still to be
- [Up Yer Brum — social news for Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/392/up-yer-brum-—-social-news-for-birmingham/) - upyerBrum.com is a social news site, that allows users to vote on stories and links collected from across the internet. The front page shows popular stories as well as content tagged "upyerbrum" across the web for users to vote upon. It interrogates Flickr, YouTube, Technorati and del.icio.us APIs to do so - pulling out relevant
- [Orwell and his chickens](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1559/orwell-and-his-chickens/) - There was a great plan this year to publish George Orwell's diaries, 50 years after the event, as a blog. We don't learn a lot about the inner thoughts of the great man, but we do know just how well his chickens were getting on:
- [Twitter 101, Part 4: Tips for Being Successful on Twitter](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/379/twitter-101-part-4-tips-for-being-successful-on-twitter/) - Being "sucessful" on a social media service is a bit of a lose term, but this post has some good points to consider especially if you ae thinking of tweeting for an organisation. [link]
- [Rory Cellan-Jones on not being fooled by 'surveys'](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1558/rory-cellan-jones-on-not-being-fooled-by-quotsurveysquot/) - Rory rightly dismisses a press release that uses an 'survey' and twists the results so as to appear newsworthy. "So, while I'll admit that I've occasionally fallen for this kind of stunt in the past, I'm going to resist it this time. But don't be surprised if you pick up a paper this week and
- [The global village, it's not shit](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1551/the-global-village-its-not-shit/) - No, not related to Mike Whitby's awful meaningless slogan, but the very real sense that — in online parody at least — we're all pretty similar. At BiNS I got an incoming link from a blog site in Wellington, New Zealand, called "the Wellingtonista". It seems to be doing similar things to what I do on
- [What Robin Hood can teach buisness about social media marketing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/337/what-robin-hood-can-teach-buisness-about-social-media-marketing/) - It's not to give to the poor (although that would be nice) nor to forsake trousers for green hose, I'm not thinking about Hood's actions but the history of the legend itself and how it evolved. I've long been obsessed with the origins of the Robin Hood legend, as well as the continuing theories on
- [British Red Cross and its online "street teams"](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/376/british-red-cross-and-its-online-street-teams/) - Bands have been using "street teams" for some time - unpaid fans that spread the word amongst their mates in return for something exclusive (priority tour bookings, the odd badge, that sort of thing). It's a clever extension of the Fan Club, where the fans get to feel involved and the band get some marketing
- [I can see our house from here](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1550/i-can-see-our-house-from-here/) - I can see our house from here Originally uploaded by bounder Google Earth for the iPhone is a stunning application - new photos of Birmingham too, as we hadn't moved into our current house on the previous pics and there's my car on the drive.
- [Social Media Classroom](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/370/social-media-classroom/) - A free system to create social media in the classroom - available to download - that includes "integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. … curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos." It's based on Drupal, which I
- [Momus on Tea](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1549/momus-on-tea/) - It's worth reading what Momus has to say on most subjects, and this includes lots of PG Tips Chimps videos too. [link]
- [What I did on my holidays - Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1548/what-i-did-on-my-holidays-birmingham-post-lifestyle-blog/) - Stupidly long blog post about what I did when I went to Pisa last week. It's difficult to write about another country without decending into 'mad foriegners' mode. [link]
- [tiny music machine lost in Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1557/tiny-music-machine-lost-in-birmingham/) - Dunkirk on Vimeo
- [Duff Man Parties Bella](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1547/duff-man-parties-bella/) - Recently spotted in Italy, I was shocked to discover that Duff Beer is real.
- [Push or pull?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1546/push-or-pull/) - I've just come back from a few days in Tuscany, we stayed in Pisa where there isn't a whole lot going on (nice — we went to not do much) apart from visiting the leaning tower. Once you're there, it's obligatory to pose as if you're interacting with the round leany thing. The odd person
- [Mark Steel - Video Lectures Online](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1545/mark-steel-video-lectures-online/) - Free downloads of some of Mark's TV lecture series. The man may only really do one joke ("see this thing of historical or political importance, it's a bit like when you lose your shoes isn't it?"), but he does it with panache and is possibly the only person who I find myself never disagreeing with.
- [Blog Action Day - Poverty - Can Social Media Help?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/367/blog-action-day-poverty-can-social-media-help/) - October 15th, is Blog Action Day. The concept being to encourage blogs around the world to all write about one issue on the same day - hoping that through the various niches (social media types, big shoes, ZX Spectrum nostalgia) the message will reach as many people as possible. This year the theme is poverty.
- [Ctrl, Alt, Del Tea Set](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1556/ctrl-alt-del-tea-set/) - swissmiss: Alt, Ctrl, Del Tea Set
- [The Top 51 Episodes of Red Dwarf](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1544/the-top-51-episodes-of-red-dwarf/) - Propper Red Dwarf geekery. [link]
- [The King](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1543/the-king/) - Skitch.com > bounder > Facebook | Confirm Requests
- [MPs and the blogosphere](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/340/mps-and-the-blogosphere/) - I was at the Tory Conference this week, as part of a supposed "charm offensive". The most interesting hour was a chance to see and hear the most famous right-wing bloggers talk amongst themselves.
- [Blog Action Day - Free Social Media Advice for Community & Voluntary Orgs in Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/353/blog-action-day-free-social-media-advice-for-community-voluntary-orgs-in-birmingham/) - Blog Action Day is a call for as much of the blogosphere as possible to write about a specific issue on the same day - October the 15th - coming at the topic from your own blog's angle. Last year's topic was the environment, this year it's poverty. Birmingham-based bloggers have decided to hold a
- [Passion and the business case for blogging](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/352/passion-and-the-business-case-for-blogging/) - Great coverage of whether "passion" for the subject is important in blogging. My take - yes of course it is. [link]
- [Is your toilet breeding Communists?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1555/is-your-toilet-breeding-communists/) - Neatorama » Blog Archive » Cold War Ads
- [Oops](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1542/oops/) - Oops Originally uploaded by bounder It still worked fine, apart from getting little glass splinters in your fingers (when surfing the web) and your ear (if answering a call).
- [The Faith Tones:](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1554/the-faith-tones/) - The Faith Tones: "Jesus Use Me" LP cover - Boing Boing
- [Access Hulu.com From outside the US](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1541/access-hulucom-from-outside-the-us/) - Usefull tutorial fom Tinkernut.com that shows how to use a tool meant to secure access at wireless hotspots to fool the IPTV service. Will have to try this out, unfortunately it's in the most useless of tutorial formats - the video. I'll get to this when I'm really desparate for a dose of The Daily
- [Community management the Flickr way](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/339/community-management-the-flickr-way/) - Great little article about how the flickr team manage thier worldwide online community. "The job always comes down to finding the fulcrum in the teeter-totter, the balance that benefits both the individual and the community," [link]
- [American Estate Agents](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1540/american-estate-agents/) - If you're gratefl for nothing else in this world, give thanks that the UK doesn't have the personality cult thing going on for Estate Agents. British ones are bad enough, with their BHS suits, Wella hair products and small red cars - but at least we dont' have to deal with these: [link]
- [Danny Smith shaves a Batman logo into his chest hair](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1539/danny-smith-shaves-a-batman-logo-into-his-chest-hair/) - Everyone thinks it's going to be hair surrounding bat symbol, but it's the other way round. Photos and instructions should you want to do likewise. [link]
- [YouTube - Doctor Who: What are you doing here?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1552/youtube-doctor-who-what-are-you-doing-here/) - YouTube - Doctor Who: What are you doing here?
- [The International - you can find anything on the interweb](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/374/the-international-you-can-find-anything-on-the-interweb/) - I was just looking a website for an unsigned bands competition (Festibull), which got me thinking about bands I've been in. The longest running and most interesting was 'The International' — we didn't gig much, but we were completely out-of-time modish art-rock. We used to have a practise room next to Mistress (very metal) and
- [Brilliant Spectrum-based photo story](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1534/brilliant-spectrum-based-photo-story/) - retrogeek » Blog Archive » School For Software
- [Fused - Student Issue - How to avoid students when drinking](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1533/fused-student-issue-how-to-avoid-students-when-drinking/) - An article I wrote about "how to avoid students" in Brum — for a magazine aimed at them. [link]
- [At Cape York - Group of Arctic Highlanders and Seamen of the Expedition](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1532/at-cape-york-group-of-arctic-highlanders-and-seamen-of-the-expedition/) - At Cape York - Group of Arctic Highlanders and Seamen of the Expedition Originally uploaded by National Maritime Museum Third guy from left, back row — cardboard cut out?
- [toaster 'prints' on bread](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/498/toaster-prints-on-bread/) - Electrolux Design Lab08 Scan toaster Originally uploaded by electrolux_social Only a concept at this stage, but what a concept!
- [Round and round it goes - twitter -> blog - > twitter echo chamber](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/331/round-and-round-it-goes-twitter-blog-twitter-echo-chamber/) - Further proof, if proof be needed, that pushing blog posts to twitter (and vice versa) creates nothing but echo. In this instance the only tweet archived from "yesterday" is the tweet announcing the previous day's tweets (and so on and so forth): Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! A nothing perpetuating itself, filling up the internet and
- [The year 2525: Were Zager & Evans right?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1531/the-year-2525-were-zager-amp-evans-right/) - Martin Belam cooly assesses Zager and Evan's quality of prediction. [link]
- [Wordle is worth a thousand pictures](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1530/wordle-is-worth-a-thousand-pictures/) - Wordle will take a bunch of text, or a feed and create word pictures like this: Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Not only can you chose fonts, colours, layout styles and number of words, it animates in a really nice way as the pictures build. Loveley
- [How to podcast using your mobile phone - The London Biker](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/330/how-to-podcast-using-your-mobile-phone-the-london-biker/) - Ex collegue of mine Matt Cashmore is about to blog motorbiking to Russia for charity, some of which he'll be doing as audio by phone - here's his handy guide to doing just that (the phone thing, not the motorbiking): "Sound simple doesn’t it. Just find a way of leaving a message on something like
- [When good feeds go bad](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/325/when-good-feeds-go-bad/) - An old PA football story somehow finds itself published as new news on This is Croydon - to the ire of commenters. The very funny ire. Read the comments from the bottom-up to get it chronologically. [link]
- [TV blog fun](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1529/tv-blog-fun/) - Smashing Telly is a TV blog that unlike Watchification, finds and embeds content from around the web [link]
- [Hello sailor](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1528/hello-sailor/) - Jodie Silsby has produced the Portsmouth Vernacular Map. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! A lovingly created map of Portsmouth with roads replaced by local phrases (there's also a dictionary). Super, it almost makes you want to move there. Apparently London is next for the treatment — come do Birmingham instead please. (via D'log)
- [The Nation's Favourite](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/359/the-nations-favourite/) - The Nation's Favourite Originally uploaded by diamond geezer
- [YouTube Comment Snob](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/324/youtube-comment-snob/) - Firefox extension that hides comments on YouTube by grammar, spelling and punctuation. It's a very good way of filtering the dreadful and purile comments that litter YouTube. [link]
- [Giant firefox made of flowers](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1538/giant-firefox-made-of-flowers/) - Guggenheim museum Bilbao Originally uploaded by mcbozburger At the Guggenheim museum, Bilbao (or is it a cat?).
- [Bill Drummond - The Manager](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1526/bill-drummond-the-manager/) - I've been reading KLF-er and artist Bill Drummond's new book 17, it's fascinating in it's surface honesty and deeper ambiguity as is most of his stuff. In it he mentions a video he shot, supposedly instead of doing what Alan McGee told him to do (make a promo for a single from his obscure album
- [It's not what you like](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1525/its-not-what-you-like/) - I've just finished reading a excerpt from Haruki Murakami's book about his obsessive running, and in particular a 100KM "ultramarathon" he completed (it's taken me a while to get round to, it was in the Observer in July). He's been one of my favourite authors in recent years, but something has disturbed me about finding
- [Get your Tweets back on SMS (probably)](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1524/get-your-tweets-back-on-sms-probably/) - I've been experimenting with different ways of getting twitter notifications by SMS now twitter has turned that off in the UK. If you search "RSS to SMS" on Google you find Pingie - which seems to offer the ideal solution. It will send text updates from an RSS feed (and you can get a feed
- [Twitter and SMS, maybe it can help them find that elusive revenue model](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/318/twitter-and-sms-maybe-it-can-help-them-find-that-elusive-revenue-model/) - UK Twitters awoke to a email this morning telling them that updates by text were no more (follow the reaction on Twitter itself). Unlike in the US where the standard has been to pay to receive texts, Twitter has been stumping up the cost of updating UK subscribers. That, according to Twitter has become a
- [Famous Scenes from Spectrum Football Manager History](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/346/famous-scenes-from-spectrum-football-manager-history/) - After Through the Wall, and a dodgy (by which I mean rubbish) text adventure called Planet of Death (of which no record exists), one of the first games I played on my ZX Spectrum was Football Manager. It was slow, written in BASIC, and the amount of control you had over the success or otherwise
- [Kingswood Warren: The end of an era | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/317/kingswood-warren-the-end-of-an-era-pda-the-digital-content-blog-guardiancouk/) - Nice piece about the BBC's "research mansion", doomed to closure and the dispersal of some incredibly talented people. [link]
- [bubble wrap calendar](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1536/bubble-wrap-calendar/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Very therapeutic — Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day. via
- [Tony Blair is Ali G](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/344/tony-blair-is-ali-g/) - Supposedly shocking "leaked" memo by Tony Blair to some of his New Labour buddies makes the Mail: Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Shocking, to me, as the fool uses the word "dissed" without apparent irony.
- [Dave Gorman has tech support woes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1523/dave-gorman-has-tech-support-woes/) - Googlewacker and America crosser Dave Gorman has being trying to sort his broadband out this week — he's written up two accounts of his dealings with BT tech support: I kept hearing the following phrase: "Your case has been escalated to the complex faults team but due to a system error the task has failed."
- [Wibbly Wobbly Jelly on a Plate](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1535/wibbly-wobbly-jelly-on-a-plate/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! JELLO TIME .COM - by Rafaël Rozendaal
- [Public Information Films](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/310/public-information-films/) - I know they've become quite the retro-cliché, but Public Information Films are a fine example of Government agencies passing information directly to the public – without spending an awful lot of time and effort second guessing the media. And I've just found an archive online — that you can watch, download, and use (subject to
- [MyNeighbourhood — crime mapping and a survey](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/307/myneighbourhood-—-crime-mapping-and-a-survey/) - Launched today in the West Midlands, MyNeighbourhood.info is a official version of those map mash-ups of crime statistics that have been produced for some time now. The interface isn't the most intuitive (in fact I'd call it downright unfriendly), and the mapping window is tiny: Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! It's also difficult to see the
- [Flickr's new revenue model?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1520/flickrs-new-revenue-model/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! No seen this before.
- [WordCamp UK 2008 presentation - WordPress is not a blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/306/wordcamp-uk-2008-presentation-wordpress-is-not-a-blog/) - Using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) link
- [We don't have to write anything - Perfect Path](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/302/we-dont-have-to-write-anything-laquo-perfect-path/) - Lloyd Davis on why PR people have to think differently when dealing with bloggers - "I'm not thinking "I wonder what to write by the end of today to fill that page?" I'm thinking "How can I find enough time to write about all the things I'm excited about"" [link]
- [WordPress for iPhone](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1519/wordpress-for-iphone/) - Just testing the WordPress iPhone app. More info. Had one instance of a bug that meant you couldn't get back to the draft post after trying to select a category. If that happens you lose your post. No spell check. It is a ton better than any customised web interface I've seen, but not quite
- [The moral web](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/300/the-moral-web/) - At WordCampUK over the weekend I found myself increasingly thinking about the moral questions that relate to how we behave on the internet. Not the same questions about whether we're nice to each other, or lie or steal, that's just a virtual version of the real world — more just how far you're willing to
- [Watching me Jon Bounds, Watching you Google Street View Car](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1518/watching-me-jon-bounds-watching-you-google-street-view-car/) - Google Street Map Car - Moseley, Bimingham UK Originally uploaded by bounder While I'm sitting working, what should I see out of the corner of my eye than the Google Street View Car. Breathlessly excited, I rushed to get my camera — luckily I'm in a cul-de-sac so I knew it was coming back. I
- [Charlie Brooker on SEO](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/293/charlie-brooker-on-seo/) - Charlie Brooker on SEO ""Search engine optimisation", it's known as, and it's the journalistic equivalent of a classified ad that starts with the word "SEX!" in large lettering, and "Now that we've got your attention" printed below it in smaller type."" link
- [8-bit hippy shit](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1517/8-bit-hippy-shit/) - I've spent a good hour or so reading the brill History of Lamasoft by the Yak Jeff Minter himself, and then reliving some of his spectrum classics. The great Psychedelia especially. "I called the program a "light synthesiser", and advertised it as a new, non-competitive form of entertainment... no enemies, no killing, just light and
- [Geeky Picture Quiz](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1516/geeky-picture-quiz/) - I wrote a quiz for WordCampUK, the picture round is 20 "famous people" to identifiy — I thought it was worthwhile to pop it up on the net. So here it is (PDF link) - answers are on page two, and link to somewhere on the net that should explain who they are if you're
- [The voice of pikachu](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1522/the-voice-of-pikachu/) - [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iAUXdDO_NgM]
- [Retro To Go: Dr Who Tardis wardrobe](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1506/retro-to-go-dr-who-tardis-wardrobe/) - , pretend you're the doctor by nipping in and out of this self-assembly canvas construction, with the added bonus of a single rail inside for your space age clobber. Make a K9 out of a waste bin and some old wire and you'll be ready to conquer the galaxy. link
- [the internet: a series of tubes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/15/the-internet-a-series-of-tubes/) - .flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the internet: a series of tubes, originally uploaded by bounder. This has been in my brain for some time, ever since i heard of the original 'series of tubes' comment. i sorta wanted it to look
- [Win a Sony PS3 and support young homeless people](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/16/win-a-sony-ps3-and-support-young-homeless-people/) - dixons (who have renagued on my wii preorder) are trying to do some good by running a charity compo to win a ps3 - link from here: Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting - Win a Sony PS3 and support young homeless people have a go at dixons' website - i bet they manage to
- [end of history](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/17/end-of-history/) - it's just taken me a few hours to write a 'review of 2006' for Birmingham: It's Not Shit. I always worry about upsetting someone, but I've tried to be nice. Birmingham: It's Not Shit - 2006 review of the year
- [toast by post](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/18/toast-by-post/) - or actually it isn't the follow-up to the brilliant "sausages in a jiffy" mail-order breakfast business that a friend of mine conceived (but never carried out). it is a brilliant toast-based charity version of the million dollar homepage thing.
- [PenguinoTV - Bran Flakes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/20/penguinotv-bran-flakes/) - okay, it's a happy feet plush toy dancing to Snuff - but it's a great way to kill a few minutes: YouTube - PenguinoTV - Bran Flakes
- [Ninja kittens win](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/21/ninja-kittens-win/) - gowwwan! BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ninja kitten band win Coke battle
- [SWILL](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/22/swill/) - my other half's new blog: SWILL. We'll see how long it lasts ;)
- [Save the Internet!](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/25/save-the-internet/)
- [the blogging virus](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/27/the-blogging-virus/) - I don't seem to be able to stop blogging. Not much here, I grant, but there's the B:INS blog (which has really been running in one form or another for about 4 years), The Kitten Channel (which is mostly pictures of kittens), and a new one which I'm not going to link to until it
- [up yer Brum - it's Digg for Brum](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/28/up-yer-brum-its-digg-for-brum/) - up yer Brum is my latest project, the idea originally was simply a sort of 'Brum Blogs' aggregator, but it's got a lot more complicated. The front page shows items on the web (technorati, dell.icio.us, flickr, youtube )tagged 'upyerbrum' - as well as the most popular links already submitted - and lets people vote on
- [Cool, Fab, gear?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/31/cool-fab-gear/) - Can't help thinking that the interweb has got it a bit wrong on google gears (the offline/online storage tool, that will for example download all you feeds in Google Reader to read when offline) - they all love it. But most of the praise in the blogs, Ben Metcalfe etc., has come from people who
- [Mindblowing use of social media](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/32/mindblowing-use-of-social-media/) - This talk is a fantastic demo of a use of Photosynth & Seadragon, which could let socially-shared and tagged photos build near real-looking virtual environments. Microsoft (indeed!) has a couple of demos up running, including one in collaboration with the BBC for their How we built Britain series. Doesn't work on OS X as yet,
- [Safari on Windows?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/33/safari-on-windows/) - Apple - Safari 3 Public Beta A move I don't fully understand - I've recently and reluctantly switched from Safari to Firefox on OS X due to the poor way it handled some javascript heavy sites, what it had going for it was tight OS integration. On Windows, hmmm.
- [A Flash Of Inspiration #1 - TV on the Radio](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/34/a-flash-of-inspiration-1-tv-on-the-radio/) - Niche perhaps, but niche broadcasting is the future - especially when it comes so easily and re-uses content. Stuck in traffic and about to miss Big Brother I thought - why isn't the TV on the radio? We could listen to programmes that are already done with audio description (you can find the channels right
- [A Flash Of Inspiration #2 Social Ethical Shopping](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/36/a-flash-of-inspiration-2-social-ethical-shopping/) - I've had this idea for a while, but want to get it down on 'paper' so people might be able to take the idea and sort it out. I could probably hack together the software side myself (not quickly, it's a big job), but there's a huge need for hardware and legal back-up to get
- [The people that disapear](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/35/the-people-that-disapear/) - At least two people I've spoken to - and a few others I've heard from - say that their facebook profiles have disappeared. They are unable to log in and their friends tell them that they've disappeared from contact lists and group memberships. The problem with facebook being a data black hole (data goes in,
- [Facebook noise pollution starts already](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/37/facebook-noise-pollution-starts-already/) - One of the reasons that Facebook has taken off so much recentley is that, I think at least, it's a grown up social network. Even if a lot of the activity (throwing sheep, poking) is so childish the real names, real people ethos helps keep down spamming, trolling, and one hopes eventually racism. So I
- [When free is a bad deal](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/42/when-free-is-a-bad-deal/) - In my daily trawl of everything relating to Birmingham that appears on the interweb I came across this story about a programme to provide community groups with websites, called E Voice and run in conjunction with Digital Birmingham. Sounds like a great deal, but I had reservations. I sent the link off to Nick Booth
- [Moving](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/49/moving/) - There's never a good time to do it, but I guess a Saturday might be as good as any. In light of what I say a lot about "ownership" of your online identity it seemed a bit odd that my blog was hosted over at blogger, where of course I owned the content but not
- [BBC IPTV and other TLA and FLAs](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/51/bbc-iptv-and-other-tla-and-flas/) - Apparently, (I say apparently as the news is mostly coming in from 'scare' stories from the papers) ISPs are going to cause trouble if the BBCs catch-up TV service takes up too much of their bandwidth. Mary Turner, CEO of Tiscali UK says, “The internet was not set up with a view to distributing video.
- [How not to let blogging take over your life](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/54/how-not-to-let-blogging-take-over-your-life/) - Problogger has some tips on how to segregate your blogging from the rest of your life, and on how to keep "the conversation" on a civil level. Be Careful What You Wish For - 5 Lessons to Learn from Robert Scoble
- [Online video doesn't just have to be diet coke and mints](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/55/online-video-doesnt-just-have-to-be-diet-coke-and-mints/) - The Tate have launched Tate Player a range of rare film and audio files from its archives online. Artists in conversation as well as archive video pieces - including some classic Gilbert and George. Sadly not embedable, but fully RSSed up.
- [A difference between blogging and journalism?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/57/a-difference-between-blogging-and-journalism/) - In this post on the Guardian technology blog - Ad blocking is theft, so block Firefox instead | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - the computer editor Jack Schofield not only admits to not having any corroboration for the story "it seems some site owners are retaliating by blocking Firefox. (I've not found one myself.)" and
- [Touch me, where?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/61/touch-me-where/) - I signed up with a trial of Crazy Egg (which does 'heatmaps' of your webpages to see where people clicked), just to see what it's about and let it lose on the main page of BiNS for a day or two. It seems a really powerful tool - though it might be useful to have
- [When your mum joins Facebook](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/72/when-your-mum-joins-facebook/) - Along with politely declining requests to grow gardens, throw sheep or cause upset by ordering disparate friends and acquaintances by strict order of preference, I now have something else to worry about when it comes to Facebook - that my mum will get a direct feed of everything I mention or do. Facebook seemed to
- [Cityware - blurring the online/offline](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/73/cityware-blurring-the-onlineoffline/) - Via Auntie Not available in Brum yet, so haven't tried it out. Think it would have gone mad at the Moseley Folk festival where the blogging community seems to have been out in force.
- [The addiction of tweaking](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/78/the-addiction-of-tweaking/) - As I mentioned previously, I have been thinking of how to reduce the split between the main site and the blog of Birmingham: It's Not Shit. I've long been aware that some people visited the blog exculsivley, and those that chanced upon the main page rarely clicked through to the blog - in a way
- [More tweakage](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/82/more-tweakage/) - I've just finished altering the front page of our kitten blog site, The Kitten Channel. It's always aggregated Flickr pics and YouTube vids tagged kitten, but where it used to also try for Zooomr pics and Google video it now pulls in blog posts and sites (Technorati and delicious respectively). This was because I felt
- [Up your end - how to geotag your blog posts (and what you can do with the information)](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/85/up-your-end-how-to-geotag-your-blog-posts-and-what-you-can-do-with-the-information/) - I've just let other people see my new project up your end, (amazing what popping a url in your facebook status can do) which is a little toy for geographically mapping Birmingham things on the interweb. It uses geotagging, and here's a little explanation of how it works. Other people's feeds Although some sites, such
- [Bebo, the social drinking website?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/90/bebo-the-social-drinking-website/) - With the current news story about the two young tennis pros suspended over their social networking profiles, it struck me as odd that: the basic tenant of not putting stuff online you aren't happy for anyone to see hasn't got through and they they were using Bebo. Danah Boyd did some interesting thinking on social
- [Two point three update](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/92/two-point-three-update/) - I've just spent an hour or two (Saturday morning would be the quietest time for traffic to my blogs) updating this blog, BiNS and The Kitten Channel to the new Wordpress release 2.3. No major problems, but it is still squeaky bum time. The Google sitemap generator plugin requires an upgrade to verion 3.0, and
- [Corporate blogging, UGC and everything in moderation](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/96/corporate-blogging-ugc-and-everything-in-moderation/) - Here's a few pointers I've gained over the last few years, both from blogging personally, but also running the web presence for organisations. I worked as Web Officer for one one that had had some legal problems in the past, due to content posted on a forum they ran - it's their case and advice
- [Writing offline, link lack incident](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/99/writing-offline-link-lack-incident/) - I've been doing slightly more writing for paper publications than would normally be the case over the last few weeks. I'm out of practice, and not just with the idea of hitting a word count. I found it most irritating to have to explain things within the text rather than just hyperlinking to more information
- [DC United](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/113/dc-united/) - The Washington Post has a top-ten blogging tips article, which is a good start for any new bloggers - interestingly they seem to have talked to people who blog in and about Washington itself. A more interesting approach than the usual 'super-blogger' advice. I don't agree with their ideas on Nominating Yourself for Awards, which
- [iPhone, blogger's delight?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/117/iphone-bloggers-delight/) - Just a quick post to see how easy blogging is on the iPhone, and yes I am showing off. On Wordpress I had to switch to code mode to actually write the post, but otherwise everything seems to be normal. The predictive text is great, better if you don't actually look at your mistakes -
- [What should newspaper websites be like?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/119/what-should-newspaper-websites-be-like/) - I've just posted most of this over on BiNS - as it's a response to the question of what a new Birmingham Post website should be like - but I thought there were enough good, more general points (for any news organisation, or blog, even) to hack a version here too. There are people that
- [How do you get people to vote online?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/122/how-do-you-get-people-to-vote-online/) - I'm doing a little bit to help the Black County's bid for £50 million of lottery funding - encouraging people to vote in The People’s £50 Million Lottery Giveaway. The idea is that there's an online and telephone vote, and one of four projects gets all the dosh - I've mentioned that I don't much
- [Speechification, your Radio 4 filter](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/128/speechification-your-radio-4-filter/) - Like Radio 4? Love the hidden gems, the quality speech radio, but frustrated with the idea of having to sift through the rest of it? Speechification offers to: point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Finding your own personal relevant and interesting
- [Can paid-for podcasting work?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/131/can-paid-for-podcasting-work/) - The only podcast I'd ever have considered paying for, Danny Baker's All Day Breakfast show, has ended after an acroimonious split with (I'm asuming) Wippit. It, and even more distressingly for me, the free football-ish Baker and Kelly are no more - Danny Baker has writen of his distress with the situation on their blog:
- [What geotagging needs ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/132/what-geotagging-needs/) - MediaShift Idea Lab . Tapping the Potential of Geotagging | PBS For Geotagging functionality to be anything more than a cool widget, it must also... * Let users to define and save multiple areas of interest. * Support physically defined regions. * Account for more than just the hyper-local or the global scope. * Incorporate
- [How local are you?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/160/how-local-are-you/) - I spend a very interesting and informative night at the first Birmingham Bloggers meet-up. It was interesting as the people who turned up were connected only in that they wrote (or really liked) blogs and they lived near enough to Birmingham. So blogs and Birmingham was the main conversation that seemed to emerge. Which kind
- [The Big Picture](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/163/the-big-picture/) - Since leaving the BBC at the start of the month I've been working on an incredibly interesting project that is trying to build a huge photo album of the West Midlands* in 2008 - The Big Picture. The Big Picture is a project for Arts Council West Midlands, being run by Audiences Central (who have
- [BBC profiles on Facebook](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/172/bbc-profiles-on-facebook/) - It's understandable that companies want to use Facebook to promote stuff - it is after all very big - and with almost a half of BBC staff on there, it's obvious that they should use it to promote services, programme and events. What is annoying is when people who don't understand social networking blunder in.
- [Wifi Networks detected in Birmingham So Far This Year](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/206/wifi-networks-detected-in-birmingham-so-far-this-year/) - Since I've had my iPhone I've become interested in the names people give their wifi networks, the way that the phone brings them up for you as you walk around made that inevitable. So I took to writing them down - I found that I was interested in what it said about the thoughts of
- [Lifestream, but don't tell me twice](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/107/lifestream-but-dont-tell-me-twice/) - With people barely having a thought we don't in some way publish to the interweb there's continuous chatter about information overload. I've always been of the opinion that I'd rather have all the information there was, leaving it up to me to pick what I wanted and what to ignore. It's this that leads me
- [I vow not to 'crosspost' with social media ](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/217/i-vow-not-to-crosspost-with-social-media/) - I will not use twitter, tumblr or my facebook news feed to announce a new blog post. Who's with me? [EDIT] I also vow to keep twitter and Facebook statues separate. (Thanks Si, although that's a harder one). The reason is that I don't want to contibute to the "background noise" I describe here.
- [Geo-attention data - places you care about](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/224/geo-attention-data-places-you-care-about/) - I've been experimenting with my.loki.com, which aims to automatically update your position in the world (and it's scarily accurate), it will also share that information with other web services if you allow it. FireEagle from Yahoo is to offer the sharing too, if not the automatic stuff. It's helped me think around a topic that's
- [Beerhunter - geo-mashup art (and booze)](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/228/beerhunter-geo-mashup-art-and-booze/) - This and other mapping at CR Blog.
- [Facebook Mail](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/235/facebook-mail/) - Now (I know it's been doing it a while) that Facebook sends the text of messages to your email, it really needs to do something whereby a read-receipt marks it as read in FB itself. Having to do that manually to messages I've read is just one more annoying thing that is meaning I use
- [Live microblogging a book](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/237/live-microblogging-a-book/) - I did something quite strange and possibly annoying for anyone who follows me on twitter today. I tweeted a very-piecemeal book "review" of Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. It wasn't my idea - it was Paul Bradshaw's and I'd be surprised if he didn't do a much better and more interesting job (I fact
- [Flickr video, keep it short](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/239/flickr-video-keep-it-short/) - Flickr finally inched out video hosting today, for pro users only and only up to 90 seconds. To tell the truth it's not something that I've been calling for – it's not as if there aren't enough video sharing sites on the web. Flickr is the web-geeks' photo sharing site of choice due to it's
- [Have you heard of these things called newspapers?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/248/have-you-heard-of-these-things-called-newspapers/) - Tired of newspapers doing intros to blogging: "it's sort of like an online diary..."? Here's a nice turnaround - Meet the newspaperers - For those of you who don’t already know, newspapers make up a significant portion of topical written content in the UK and are fast becoming a vital part of the newsgathering process.
- [Tweet the vote](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/253/tweet-the-vote/) - Birmingham City Council progressively decided that they would livestream their local election results, which was more of an invitation than us politically-interested twitters needed to provide a 'backchannel'. Having decided to base round the hashtag #brumcc (a few test tweets fired off as people voted in the day), it all kicked off around 10.25 with
- [Can you Get Satisfaction from your local Council?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/255/can-you-get-satisfaction-from-your-local-council/) - I've been quietly impressed with Get Satisfaction, which is sort of best described as a "social customer service" site. Twitter and some other big-name players on the internet use it for their official support channels - the idea of the site being that employees of the companies join in with discussion of "problems" that people
- [Perhaps one day they'll admit it](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/259/perhaps-one-day-theyll-admit-it/)
- [Flickr spam - on the increase?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/261/flickr-spam-on-the-increase/) - I've had a lot of comments recently, mosty from this girl (using various names). While Flickr respond quickly to spam reports (much more quickly than any other customer service requests) that's not really the point. There must be something they can do to stop registration of these spam accounts - maybe not allow people to
- [New feature wishlist for Google Reader](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/263/new-feature-wishlist-for-google-reader/) - I've been thinking some more about the whole, information overload, autogenerated echo, crossposting thing. I've come to the conclusion that I don't want RSS feeds aggregated for me on yet another web service, I don't want every feed from every person and have to filter them out (and for duplicates). In short I want all
- [Choice, power and sticks](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/275/choice-power-and-sticks/) - I've just come back from The Big Debate (part of the New Generation Arts Festival), a cosy couple of hours listening to talk on the subject 'Digital Uptopia — more power or powerless?'. As is the way of these things the proposition was skirted round by most. The lack of a digital naysayer on the
- [Is it bin day?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/277/is-it-bin-day/) - Does anyone want to help make a quick website that could answer this eternal question, and perhaps spread a bit of environmental advice as it goes? Along the lines of isitChristmas, but obviously localised by Post Code, the site would offer RSS and iCal feeds of whether it's bin day for you — with reminders
- [Is Birmingham A Second City? The Big Brand Debate](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/283/is-birmingham-a-second-city-the-big-brand-debate/) - I'm on the panel for this debate on Wednesday, organised by Birmingham Future, with Ian Taylor, commercial director of Marketing Birmingham and David Clarke. I doubt there'll but much internet talk, although PR really is very much about the social web these days. Is Birmingham A Second City? The Big Brand Debate Wednesday 25 June
- [WordCamp UK Ticketing Goes Live](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/284/wordcamp-uk-ticketing-goes-live/) - Tickets are now on sale (at £35 or £70 if you're feeling philanthropic) for the two days of Wordpress geekery that will be WordCamp UK. It's to be held at The Studio (formerly the Orange Studio) just off New St in Birmingham. Saturday and Sunday 19th & 20thof July I'll be there, hanging around the
- [Crossposting, more people are coming round](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/286/crossposting-more-people-are-coming-round/) - Ariel Waldman on crossposting with social media: Recently, there has been a rash of one-size-fits-all services that aim to provide a solution to “managing” various sites like Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Jaiku and Facebook all at once. As with most of my rants, they begin on Twitter and then trickle their way into a blog post
- [Twitter engagement for organisations](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/289/twitter-engagement-for-organisations/) - This post is prompted by the Birmingham twitter "community"'s reaction to what some saw as unethical and "anti-social" behaviour on joining twitter [edit: as the guys from Artsfest say in the comments below, it wasn't an official account. It's now gone.] by the local council's yearly arts festival, um, artsfest. In short, upon (laudably) starting
- [Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web (and other people muddying the waters)](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/290/tim-berners-lee-on-the-future-of-the-web-and-other-people-muddying-the-waters/) - Sir Tim Berners-Lee has a Mac, he doesn't use Skitch though, or Adium, in fact his menu bar was free of clutter when I saw him talk at NESTA on "The Future of the Web" (it was webcast [edit now up here], this isn't it but the content of TBLs talk was similar). I suspect
- [Practising what I preach](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/294/practising-what-i-preach/) - Prompted by Mark Steadman's comment on one of my many blog posts on the evils of crossposting, I've turned off the tweet digests that were (to be honest) overwhelming the nonsense blog of mine that is /ramblings. Mark said: "What’s your opinion then of WordPress plugins - like the ones on your own site -
- [WordCamp UK is coming 19th — 20th July](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/295/wordcamp-uk-is-coming-19th-—-20th-july/) - If you're interested in the super, open source, thingy WordPress — I hate to call it a blogging platform as you can do so much else too — you could do a lot worse than come to WordCamp UK next weekend. There are a host of talks, but it'll be a great opportunity just to
- [iPhone 2.0 — nightmare](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/271/iphone-20-nightmare/) - I tried to upgrade to the new iPhone, I was up at 8am trying on the O2 store last week — it crashed, it was slow, and when I finally got to order there was absolutely no confirmation. Turns out I got a text yesterday saying that my order was received after stock ran out,
- [Links for 9th July](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/292/links-for-9th-july-2/) - /Message: Twitter Spam: What Can We Do? - "Could we somehow take advantage of our network to help Twitter find and eliminate spammers even quicker?" Idea about auto reporting, but twitter could do it without reporting ? if a user is blocked by a %age of people the follow shouldn't they just go
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1515/tweets-for-today-158/) - 12:11 thinking about writing up yesterdays' Tim Berners Lee talk — do i write up the talk, or the ideas? they're very different. # 12:44 #brumbloggers how does Thur 24th Aug grab you for a meet-up? # 15:07 rambling blog post on Tim Berners-Lee talk yesterday is.gd/P80 I now _think_ i understand the Semantic Web,
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/269/tweets-for-today-157/) - 12:11 thinking about writing up yesterdays' Tim Berners Lee talk — do i write up the talk, or the ideas? they're very different. # 12:44 #brumbloggers how does Thur 24th Aug grab you for a meet-up? # 15:07 rambling blog post on Tim Berners-Lee talk yesterday is.gd/P80 I now _think_ i understand the Semantic Web,
- [Links for 9th July](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/291/links-for-9th-july/) - Whispering grasses, your ISP may not be on your side - Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog - From my Birmingham Post blog: A quick take on the Virgin "three strikes" letters situation, including a fairly good quip about Windsor Davies
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1514/tweets-for-today-156/) - 22:18 blogging on train FAIL. Went through a tunnel whilst publishing and now the post is tuck in published-but-not-there limbo. # 12:11 thinking about writing up yesterdays' Tim Berners Lee talk — do i write up the talk, or the ideas? they're very different. # 12:44 #brumbloggers how does Thur 24th Aug grab you for
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1513/tweets-for-today-155/) - 21:57 watch out tinyurl.com/6osp69 # 23:05 I have declared isbrumhappy www.upyourend.co.uk/isbrumhappy an experiment in "social media phrenology". A new science I've invented ;) # 23:22 Bed. That London tomorrow, may take in the Tate before the Tim Berners Lee talk, or just pop to Elvisly Yours on Baker St- elvisly-yours.com # 12:48 in covent garden.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/265/tweets-for-today-154/) - 09:08 has anyone got through the O2 iPhone update process? # 09:30 O2 FAIL skitch.com/bounder/xegi/o2-mobile-phone-upgrade # 11:43 f-ing o2 f-ing royal mail f-ing everybody # 14:39 all 3G iPhones for upgrade out of stock upgrades.o2.co.uk/maintenance.html wankers, been trying since 9am # 14:52 gave up and ordered moo business cards, I still have a plan for
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1512/tweets-for-today-153/) - 09:08 has anyone got through the O2 iPhone update process? # 09:30 O2 FAIL skitch.com/bounder/xegi/o2-mobile-phone-upgrade # 11:43 f-ing o2 f-ing royal mail f-ing everybody # 14:39 all 3G iPhones for upgrade out of stock upgrades.o2.co.uk/maintenance.html wankers, been trying since 9am # 14:52 gave up and ordered moo business cards, I still have a plan for
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1511/tweets-for-today-152/) - 17:51 Great Euro2008 clip is.gd/LXz spanish team conga through a German interview after the game (singing y viva espanya) # 11:16 I has a concept: social Internet phrenology. I'm gonna feel the bumps, somehow # 15:38 think i've come up with the model for an "audio youtube" that would stop music copyright people having a
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1510/tweets-for-today-151/) - 23:43 do non of the production staff watch This Week? Andrew Neil's jacket looks like it's covered in glitter. # 10:18 'Privacy International' are trying to stop Google Street View in the UK, is.gd/LKI arseholes #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1509/tweets-for-today-150/) - 19:39 Some excellent lolitics.co.uk this evening # 21:25 Wii Fit uses Miis you've created to liven up its games. So I spent 30mins dodging pandas' head kicked at me by Bill Oddie in an Inter strip # 08:10 over at identi.ca/bounder anyone else? Could it be that distributed twitter? # 10:03 took the cats to
- [Links for 2nd July](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/287/links-for-2nd-july/) - /Message: Ariel Waldman on One Size Does NOT Fit All - "I for one am going to login to Facebook, Jaiku, and Pownce, and turn off the cross posting from my Twitter world. I am going to keep the Brightkite cross postings to Twitter though, which I think actually makes sense." See, it's a _moral_
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1508/tweets-for-today-149/) - 18:38 I'm thinking about getting some gigantic business cards A3? in order to rail against the (admittedly cool and cute) unbiquity of the Moo # 21:49 For those with eyes, it's… watchification.com (the TV speechification.com). yay! # 13:55 parked in the metal car park. I love it #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 1st July](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/285/links-for-1st-july/) - Technovia: Sound and fury, signifying nothing - "I'm just going to stop posting things that I think add nothing. If I have something to say, I'll stop, think about it, maybe post it when I've dug into it a little more. " Excelent moral stance. Exclusive Peek At Nrme: Location-Based Twitter, Without The Noise -
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1507/tweets-for-today-148/) - 22:25 quiz FAIL # 00:06 bed is welcome. Cats are in. I must read more poetry. # 00:25 have just bought lolitics.co.uk # 09:09 a aeioux great, can you let me know when you've changed front page? thanks # 10:36 The Big Picture has got enough photos to break the World Record, thanks to everyone
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1521/tweets-for-today-147/) - 08:17 I has a chumby. Yay. # 10:03 Last day for adding photos to The Big Picture (flickr users go to the organiser and tag all your images "bigpicture2008", please) # 16:42 nut-job email - I" am looking on your site for the post code for Birmingham Bus station, please can you advise as site
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1502/tweets-for-today-146/) - 09:14 Irridecent penguin shaped thermos has arrived in post. Don't remember ordering it, did anyone send it to me? # 13:04 wondering if I should bother to wire up music for outside especialy or just turn speakers up loud. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1501/tweets-for-today-145/) - 05:36 cats are up early today, so of course am I. No point sleeping now bin men will be here in ten mins. # 08:43 Mullaney's Central Library plan is.gd/H8c beware I told him about Google Earth yesterday, he'll be city planning all day and night #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1500/tweets-for-today-144/) - 21:13 Birmingham Future 'debate' was odd, I'm still definately "outside the tent", no-one laughed at my penguin joke # 21:30 Gobble gobble # 22:26 LOL magnets make you glad you bought a steel coffee table. Magntes ftw!!1!1 # 23:02 oh and Socrates. He's got a medical degree. And Camus, and Neils Bhor. # 23:08 although
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1499/tweets-for-today-143/) - 18:40 is gmail down? # 18:46 nope seems to be ultra-slow interweb on Virgin cable, had to go to 3G to send some mail… # 09:46 piece of mine in the Post propper (and only one flightly metaphor subbed out), being a Central Library appollogisgt snurl.com/2ok75 # 12:05 Gordon Brown's intonation (like his premiership) is
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1498/tweets-for-today-142/) - 00:32 gay hairdressers from the future. FTA!!! Woot # 10:14 We may have to start having bloggers meet-ups at venues without beer. Feel shoddy and have to do some TV at 12 # 15:19 Facebook SPAM from a text link company, LinkLift. Another compelling reason to leave # 16:12 Thanks all for the saynoto0870.com linkage.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1497/tweets-for-today-141/) - 12:52 have a meeting in hockleythat will probably finish at about 5, if i head strarght to the Flapper (about 5.30 i guess) will anyone be around? # 17:18 just got to the flapper. Sitting outside. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Miss Baskerville T-Shirt](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1496/miss-baskerville-t-shirt/) - Miss Baskerville T-Shirt "Each Typewoman is created entirely with type (letters, punctuation, ligatures) in the typeface of their namesake and sit atop a pattern created with the same. No letterform has been skewed, stretched, flipped or any other bastardizing technique — just scaling at rotating. So the letters are pure as the driven snow!"
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1495/tweets-for-today-140/) - 23:49 Teh loz continues loldeirdre.tumblr.com/ # 09:44 as the lolcats would say TEH Who live at leeds. perfect soundtrack to mapping Brum Post Office Closures # 12:56 Mullaney FM, I so want to listen but I have to go to Lidil. No spoilers please # 15:18 Mullaney FM is good, could do with not playing
- [Yeast based cultural (ha pun!) assessments](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1494/yeast-based-cultural-ha-pun-assessments/) - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! I'm completely indifferent to marmite, or vegemite, although I quite like twiglets (which are nought but stale marmitey wotsits). I don't love it or hate it. I do hate people who say "I'm like marmite me, you either love me or you hate me", mainly because the sort of people who
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1493/tweets-for-today-139/) - 22:17 christ # 23:05 Tim Burgess. I call wig. # 23:08 syrup, Irish, toupe, crown topper, actually it's a mop dyed with boot polish # 11:05 brum arty types: Bull Drummond's manhole thing was meant to be today, the17.org now says august. Anyone know owt about it? Where? When? Etc # 11:59 ARRRrrgh! Twhirl is
- [The power of repetition](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1505/the-power-of-repetition/) - Do not watch this youtube clip if you dislike the idea a a comedy sketch featuring the work c--- a few hundred times, do watch it if you want a US TV/political satire giggle: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euu_DMhsXQo] (via)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1492/tweets-for-today-138/) - 18:00 twittering Teddy Ruxpin : video 2pointhome.com/teddy and twitter.com/Teddy2PointHome/ # 20:47 who knew Newt's mate was imaginary? Were there Sixth Sense style clues I missed? # 20:51 commentator has just said that the german manager is "no-one famous". Quite well known in Germany at least. # 21:06 Commentator "it's not Scholari's fault that his team
- [Links for 20th June](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/282/links-for-20th-june/) - Hell is other people's status updates, what Sartre forgot to tell you - Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog - By latest Post blog, exploring the fatigue of connectedness. I post it here as unless you are an RSS subscriber the blogs on the Birmingham Post site are somewhat burried.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1491/tweets-for-today-137/) - 19:27 in the Dubliner. Coldplay are on, and shite. # 12:53 Labour MP Keith Hill corpsing durring a speech, who knew "short sea shipping" was so funny? tinyurl.com/6avxtx # 17:25 www.thebrowncorporation.com/ cardboard bogs called "shit box". the world of marketing has sunk to a new low # 18:00 twittering Teddy Ruxpin : video 2pointhome.com/teddy and
- [Britain's logo](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1504/britains-logo/) - Is this really Britain's logo? Must only be used abroad, as I've never seen it. Found along with loads of other international ones (some of which I have seen) at: Cidade dos Logos . (via)
- [Links for 19th June](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/281/links-for-19th-june/) - Twittering Teddy Ruxpin - I've got a Nabaztag which can speak your RSS feeds to you, but these guys have lashed up a Teddy Ruxpin to speak tweets.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1490/tweets-for-today-136/) - 18:31 Midlands Today - "They called him 'fat' and it was followed by an expletive", just say "fat bastard" Nick and Suzanne don't skirt around it # 18:42 Midalnds Today are doing a feature about 'the crazy running man' snurl.com/2jy9n — BiNS style fun, or laughing at the metally ill? # 19:31 Do I want
- [The past, but wriggley](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1503/the-past-but-wriggley/) - Those with photosensitive epilepsy might not want to see what joshua heineman is doing to old timey American photos, but the wiggly 3D effect is one for everyone else. Go see (via).
- [Links for 18th June](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/280/links-for-18th-june/) - The Humphrey Awards 2008 - The Humphreys are a competition - run as part of WordCamp UK (Brum 19&20th July) - to find the WordCamp UK's favourite blogs and includes categories for favourite blog theme design, favourite blog content, favourite single blog post and favourite Plugin.
- [Links for 17th June](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/279/links-for-17th-june/) - Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) - Boing Boing - Cory Doctrow on the AP's foolhardy stance on quoting "Welcome to a world in which you won?t be able to effectively criticize the press, because you?ll be required to pay to quote as
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1489/tweets-for-today-135/) - 20:10 attempting two games at once again. # 20:51 there should be some kind of rule to make sure people with stereotypical names play for the correct country. Gomez for Germany? No. F # 21:08 all English players should be called G.K. Smith or J.G. Smith or the like. All Welsh players should be called
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1488/tweets-for-today-134/) - 19:23 Finally found a use for Picture-in-Picture (2 footy matches). waiting for the game to start and Corrie is in the corner. Lister? Kim Marsh?? # 21:38 blimey. How did they do that? Turkey lu(r)ky #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1487/tweets-for-today-133/) - 22:03 Today I learned of what can only be described as "Mullaney FM" # 08:51 I do like ScribeFire. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1486/tweets-for-today-132/) - 19:55 put yer hands up for Dirk Kuyt # 21:01 yesssssssssssss # 21:41 Off to Moseley. Give us a shout if you're about # 11:50 Trooping the Colour, fantastic misshapen bearskin hats. Definatelt a bloke in drag interviewing the Guards in Afganistan (Caroline Wyatt) #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1481/tweets-for-today-131/) - 19:04 off to party on the balcony at the rotunda. Would rather watch Austria v Poland I think. # 20:15 heard much more pro 23rd than anti. Suggestions for a new city centre venue to try? #brumbloggers # 22:17 watching rotunda the band play halfway up the rotunda ( the building) which I'd fucking awesome
- [Links for 13th June](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/278/links-for-13th-june/) - Birmingham Bloggers Meet up Monday 23rd June at The Flapper | Paradise Circus - "No agenda, no fixed time (turn up and leave when you like on ?Monday Evening?, just a social ? unless you know/want different." All welcome, just bring a smile.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1480/tweets-for-today-130/) - 20:31 anyone up for building a site called "is it bin day?" tinyurl.com/63ntnx # 21:32 Scolari to join Chelsea, not unexpected but hell of an odd time to annouce # 21:38 Swiss off # 21:43 “12 nude, middle aged, mostly out of shape, jewish men, discreetly covered by cats!” workingclasscats.com/?p=148 I'll get my coat #Squidged
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1479/tweets-for-today-129/) - 09:29 off to a meeting that has the word 'brainstorm' in the title. would much prefer the phrase "have a think about" #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Scanner plays Beethoven](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/489/scanner-plays-beethoven/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tatiU2ha0] (Ta Neatorama)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1478/tweets-for-today-128/) - 19:05 push notification for aps on iPhone? wow if it works # 19:57 "The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. The maximum price around the world is $199 USD" drool # 20:28 should have been three. Come on de oranje # 22:29 "3G iPhone will be free on an 18 month
- [Links for 10th June](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/276/links-for-10th-june/) - The Omni Group - OmniFocus for iPhone and iPod touch - "Using your location, OmniFocus can create a custom list of actions to complete nearby. Buying groceries? OmniFocus can show you the closest grocery store and create an instant shopping list." interesting
- [Spock Monkeys](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1485/spock-monkeys/) - Cottage Linen Sock Monkeys:Sci-Fi Sock Monkeys
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/236/tweets-for-today-127/) - 11:50 off to #bigdebate are there enough people there to do the #massdebate joke? # 12:43 good wireless, at #bigdebate. Good cos therw's no phone signal # 12:47 #bigdebate digital uptopia doesn't preculde real life does it? # 12:50 #bigdebate, good turn out. i'm still not sure what the question is tho' #Squidged out by
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1477/tweets-for-today-126/) - 19:20 watching on tv. Dissapeared up it's own bum? Maybe. # 20:18 watching world cup clips show on itv 4. How has 1990 footage aged so badly, it's almost indistinct. Suspect bad copies, worse compression. # 20:48 against Peter Jones I think we all want the Gremlins to win, don't we? # 21:03 it's big
- [2girls1cup cake](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1468/2girls1cup-cake/) - 2girls1cup cake at NinjaPenguin 2.0 Originally uploaded by pinguino
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1476/tweets-for-today-125/) - 10:24 our cats are not allowed out of the front door (nasty cars aout there), but a similar ginger kitten has moved in over the road causing panic # 10:58 writing about busses — bus culture links welcome # 11:52 deleted 400+ gmail contacts yesterday afternoon. This morning… they're all f-king back. Do not, Do
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1475/tweets-for-today-124/) - 09:28 how can you be anonymous? there's always whois lookup? # 09:57 first time I've had a shave since wisdom teeth op — lack of beard reveals it still looks like I'm eating a toblerone # 10:12 twitter basically doesn't work in the browser, and 30 api requests an hour isn't enough for twhirl -
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1474/tweets-for-today-123/) - 11:48 cat on a snooker table: tinyurl.com/5el5z5 #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1473/tweets-for-today-122/) - 11:04 feel shitty today, painkillers make me drowsy as hell, swelling worse. no flyover or climate changey stuff for me. have fun if you go #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1472/tweets-for-today-121/) - 18:20 out of hospital. Look like half a hampster with right side of face swollen. Sorry for not live tweeting surgery. # 10:54 gorgeous, pointess, inspirational colorflip.com/ #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [hampstr lnk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1483/hampstr-lnk-5/) - Stuff your cheeks with: This is Object
- [Links for 29th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/274/links-for-29th-may/) - Paradise Circus - "an island of love and friendship for Brum-ish blogging, web and social media types" - a space for organising/talking about/ meetups (and whatever else we like).
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1471/tweets-for-today-120/) - 23:11 have bought paradisecircus.com — bloggers it;s up to you #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1470/tweets-for-today-119/) - 10:01 geroge lamb is back on 6music (and soon to be ruining BBLB) thank god for speechification and podcasts # 13:32 Brum Bloggers - weather forecast is not good snurl.com/2b1n3 thunderstorm twixt 4 and 7. Back room of Prince of Wales good for peeps? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1469/tweets-for-today-118/) - 21:40 i think i can hear the Lord Mayor's spectacular fireworks. Feel sorry for people watching them in the rain tho' # 10:01 Martin Feeman is not a good DJ, he isn't George Lamb tho' which is great # 13:06 colonic irrigation seems to be becoming a flood in manchester. just heard of a 3rd
- [Links for 27th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/273/links-for-27th-may/) - Siobhain Butterworth: Scratching the record and digital footprints | Comment is free | The Guardian - "The most common reason given for these requests is that the offending item appears near the top of a list of search results when the requester's name is put into a search engine."
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1461/tweets-for-today-117/) - 18:53 just put push-bike on eBay. It was a mistake to buy with no gears and pedal back braking in hilly-as-hell brum. farewell ride to Small Heath # 22:55 just showing twitter off. Do the hello thing # 09:52 just getting up. Might go to Soho House, it is indoors, being a house. Good weather
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1460/tweets-for-today-116/) - 18:43 xfruits is now updating rss to blog more often than once a week. great. tweetsonthetrain.wordpress.com and tweetsonthebus.wordpress.com yay! # 21:03 I'm the prince #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1459/tweets-for-today-115/) - 18:06 soooo f-king angry at stupid people # 18:53 real life loldeirdre www.flickr.com/photos/loldeirdre/2513600241 next thing you know we'll be following her around with placards # 21:08 malta with a Russian themes entry? # 21:23 blogs.birminghampost.net/news/2008/04/checkout-desk-woman-and-saddam.html#comment-4437 sorry meant to link direct to here # 21:39 demark having a cockerny knees up ftw # 21:51 #eurovision Spain's
- [Links for 23rd May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/268/links-for-23rd-may/) - Official Google Maps API Blog: geo search 2.0: Data In, Data Out - "Geo Sitemaps: Sitemaps are a protocol that bots use to index content from websites. Last year, we announced the ability to include KML/GeoRSS files in regular sitemaps just like a normal web resource."
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1458/tweets-for-today-114/) - 20:51 #askthedriver can you drive a complete circuit of the eleven route without having to have a break? # 14:05 Why don't Man United parade around Sutton Coldfield where all thier fans are? (easy jokes dept.) # 15:14 just finished writing a nice story about urban fox cubs, they are vey cute tinyurl.com/5mb2mq #Squidged out
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1457/tweets-for-today-113/) - 22:34 rotunda film marvelous expect gushing coverage # 09:21 No beach this year, the Bull Ring are building a cruise ship tho' snurl.com/29w4v # 14:10 I really like that Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" so I thought I'd post a link to it on YouTube snurl.com/29x4x #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1456/tweets-for-today-112/) - 17:57 tinyurl.com/5n6vx7 great news, Danny Baker back to football phone-ins #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweetmeme scammed](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/267/tweetmeme-scammed/) - Tweetmeme was one of the first services to check Twitter for links, and collect popular ones — sort of an automatic Digg. It's been a noisy, if good, way of seeing "what's hot right now". But today, most of the links were like the one above. Maybe we're seeing some of the reason behind all
- [tetris mirror](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1467/tetris-mirror/) - de do do do de do do do do do, do do do do do do do do do. That's us doing the Gameboy tetris music btw. Via Retro To Go
- [Testing Twitterfone](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/266/testing-twitterfone/) - Twitterfone is a new (beta) service that intends to let you tweet by phone — set yourself up and when you call a (national rate) number and leave a message it should transcribe and tweet it for you. I'm having a go: I said: "Is twitterfone capable of recording and transcribing a Brummie Accent?" Twitterfone
- [Links for 19th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/264/links-for-19th-may/) - FAVRD « Twitter Apps - "If you see Twitter as a venue for public relations or marketing, or as an audience eager to hear news of a post on your ?blog?, ? or if you consider yourself a web strategist, ?it?s very unlikely the things you say on Twitter will show up here
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1455/tweets-for-today-111/) - 10:31 Surface Unsigned have a lot to learn about online PR. snurl.com/29k6t And the original: snurl.com/29k73 # 12:01 Moseley Golf Club have withdrawn their appeal on alotment planning decsion. Go pea growers in your battle against plus-fours # 12:20 Think I'm probably in love with Isobel Campbell. Another great album. # 12:56 Meshugga Beach Party
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1454/tweets-for-today-110/) - 13:21 a lol, tinyurl.com/5de53x # 13:25 They are trying very hard here not so say "Walsall Smells of Shit" tinyurl.com/67tght # 13:42 "Hull City" is the only professional English football team where you can't colour in any of the letters #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [A LOL](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1453/a-lol/) - moar funny pictures I almost burst in the hurry to make this one.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1452/tweets-for-today-109/) - 11:22 Rant time. my email address has "jon" J O N in it twice - how do people manage to start emails to me "Hi John"? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 14th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/262/links-for-14th-may-2/) - emergent game «?» First Reconnaissance Assignment - emergent game is an art project/game where people chose to be sapiens or ludens - it's based around twitter and other online communication. This is how the ludens reported on their world.
- [truth in website logos](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1465/truth-in-website-logos/) - Well, yes, but only if it was all cat vids. From "Truth In Website Logos" by Streeter Seidell on CollegeHumor (via)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1451/tweets-for-today-108/) - 18:43 twhirl looks much nicer in 'colourless' theme # 20:48 smooth fm have pinched sleavefacing for an advert # 07:43 I know the government are hard up, but someone buy Hazel Blears a foolscap wallet. # 10:09 George Lamb on, Radio off it's the 10am weekday routine. Thank heavens for speechification.com # 16:10 Radio5 "they've
- [Links for 14th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/260/links-for-14th-may/) - The Churner Prize on the BBC news site reprinting AP stories almost verbaitim - Now there?s nothing wrong with the BBC?s churn job per se. The facts are there; the story is told; the reader is informed. ?Here, it?s just a reprint. On the web. Pointless. Next time, just link.
- [snow rolling pandas](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1464/snow-rolling-pandas/) - Yoga Master Originally uploaded by kjdrill See the whole roll over at Cute Overload.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1450/tweets-for-today-107/) - 09:58 The Zutons sound more like Showaddywaddy every time they release a record. # 10:00 George Lamb has won an award, what they dont' say is that he was the only national radio DJ up for it - a public vote thing - he's still ... #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 13th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/258/links-for-13th-may/) - Andy Bull on the future of sports journalism | Sport | guardian.co.uk - Super article on what's wrong with sports journalism, and how maybe technology will help
- [just a summer job](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1463/just-a-summer-job/) - Threadless T-Shirts - It's Just A Summer Job by Mike Sayre
- [Links for 12th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/257/links-for-12th-may/) - Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN - designed to facilitate spatial interoperability and geographic discovery; users can traverse the spatial hierarchy, identify the geography relevant to their users and their business, and in turn, unambiguously geotag, geotarget, and geolocate data
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1449/tweets-for-today-106/) - 18:38 not allowed on the cocks because of my retro blues shirt. # 18:47 not allowed on the cocks because of my retro blues shirt. to the prince. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1448/tweets-for-today-105/) - 11:53 today is officially National Squeaky Bum Day # 13:17 Village in Moseley won't tell me what match they're showing this arvo, twats. Off to the Spotted Dog it is # 15:50 half time blues 1 blackb 0 derby 0 Reading 1, fulham no goals # 16:20 Reading score. We're down, pretty much # 16:33
- [stuff yourself silly](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1462/stuff-yourself-silly/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgbtPmLY6uE] This hampster is really going for it. Via: Neatorama » Blog Archive » Hamster Vacuum
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1442/tweets-for-today-104/) - 15:06 just bought a 750GB network drive - i think my laptop might perform better without those 20GB+ of photos sitting on it # 16:50 hard time zoologopmorphosising my new network drive it's not got an expressive face - snurl.com/287w7 - calling him 'evil caterpillar #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [cup of tea and a sit down](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/478/cup-of-tea-and-a-sit-down/) - A seat, or a bucket…?(via)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1441/tweets-for-today-103/) - 21:56 I'm sunburnt (and as a ginge red, not brown) — it's just not fair. I'm moving to Iceland # 23:34 cow orking, dog orking, cat oking monkeon.co.uk/orking/ #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1440/tweets-for-today-102/) - 19:38 bleeding awful day that doesn't show any signs of stopping - quick lolcat break needed # 21:30 #brumcc dissapointed to discover that our new Lord Mayor doesn't have a handy a nickname as Randal Brew XI - snurl.com/27ri8 see end # 21:32 is it possible to set up getsatisfaction.com for Birmingham City Council and
- [Links for 8th May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/256/links-for-8th-may/) - Extraface » Why I Unfollow People Who Use Hashtags On Twitter - "Ambient metadata ftw!" Extraface is agast at the use of #hastags to provide inline metadata in tweets. It's ugly, but very useful.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/209/tweets-for-today-101/) - 20:59 I've got a Euro 2008 wallchart. Do I put it up now or risk losing it before the championships start. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [CSS Homer](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/477/css-homer/) - No he hasn't been made replacement bass player for the Brazilian posters - it's Homer generated entirely in CSS and slowed down so you can see where all the type-elements go. (via)
- [hamster car in video](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1447/hamster-car-in-video/) - [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlt8u5lF9nY] (in pictures)(via)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1439/tweets-for-today-100/) - 21:10 Grand Designs Live seems to have deliberately removed all the good bits from the concept. Don't put your PowerBook in the mud kevin! # 10:00 George Lamb on, radio off # 10:01 Collings and Herrin podcast it is # 11:10 my wifi doesn't stretch very far into the garden - that's okay , I
- [tech, pop and penguins](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1446/tech-pop-and-penguins/) - The Inquisitr sounds like our sort of site : Welcome to the Inquisitr, a site I haven’t quite come up with a tag line for, but I’ve got Tech, Pop and Penguins on the short list.
- [hampstr lnk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1445/hampstr-lnk-4/) - Stuff your cheeks with: A carrot shaped like.. - That's Life online
- [hampster mobile](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1444/hampster-mobile/) - Brum Brum! (via)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1438/tweets-for-today-99/) - 06:47 impressed with cover it live (coveritlive.com) - now just need something to , erm, cove live #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1437/tweets-for-today-98/) - 21:30 dance thing is very,erm , dancy. # 21:43 dance thing is very,erm , dancy. # 21:43 dance thing is very,erm , dancy. # 14:06 shopping or cuddling Ginger cat? # 15:18 cat cuddled, shopping shopped. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1436/tweets-for-today-97/) - 22:15 Eurovision Live tweeting anyone? May 24th is the final. It's Daft Punk's producer vs a turkey vs some pirates... # 23:55 Boris. Feel a little sorry for London # 23:57 buy that man a comb, # 00:03 #londonmayor fake grass? is there a reason for that? # 12:40 new HMBM album has arrived yay!
- [Links for 2nd May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/254/links-for-2nd-may/) - Scobleizer ? Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Early adopter angst « - Scoble explains well one of the divers for being an early adopter - ?because people understand what I?m talking about here.? Want to annoy me online? Your twelve step programme - Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog - My latest blog post for
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1435/tweets-for-today-96/) - 18:40 #brumcc just found out that the London election won't declare untill tomorrow afternoon —that's good, TV coverage might not be swamped by it # 19:59 just trawled through 6,500 emails c'n'ping stuff out of the body of them. head hurts. Live #brumcc Council elections will be blessed relief # 21:31 #twhirl is having problems,
- [Links for 1st May](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/252/links-for-1st-may/) - The Churner Prize » Blog Archive » Finger it out - The regrowing finger story - it's crap and The Churner prize calls it ?It?s a ridiculous story ? absurd and over-egged in the extreme,? Kay said. ?... an ordinary fingertip injury ... quite unremarkable healing. All wounds go through a repair pr
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1434/tweets-for-today-95/) - 20:01 @twm_driver www.flickr.com/photos/jncarter1962/2081716868/? # 20:44 testing #brumcc hashtag for the election tweeting # 09:09 @paulbradshaw don't think you can get an rss of a search from flickr tag rss onlu # 09:13 @paulbradshaw very possibly, you can get search results through the api # 09:23 #brumcc off to vote in Moseley. # 09:35 #brumcc who
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1433/tweets-for-today-94/) - 18:29 quite s few things going wrong here, mainly large photo-sharing site related. Not sure I'm make blogger meet. May try to come later # 18:35 @markmedia for the 'blogerati', I would guess yes - it can't do that mainstream yet - Guardian.co.uk football reports - hugely popular # 20:37 #flickr uploader is shite. Been
- [i'm laughing really, wwwww](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1443/im-laughing-really-wwwww/) - Night Note: WWWWW Is The New LOL So, weve decided. "lol" AKA "Laugh Out Loud" is dead. Weve killed it. All the cool kids read: Plunkett, McWhertor, me have ditched the "lol." Its kinda hard to type. Well, not that hard, but still. And "ha"? That actually is too hard to type. Were going with
- [Links for 29th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/251/links-for-29th-april/) - is brum happy ? - Site that trawls the Brum-based interweb, and tries to work out if Birmingham is happy or not - updates daily. There's also a twitter bot to follow.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1432/tweets-for-today-93/) - 18:44 @ruthward yay kittens!! # 01:29 @birminghamuk -an emotional wellbeing bot - it searches the brumterweb for signs of happiness or sadness and rates how birmingham is feeling # 11:11 upyourend.co.uk/isbrumhappy checks Birmingham's hapiness from tweets, blogs, etc - update once a day. (recording data too, will do somet ... # 14:10 @anamilgram is that
- [Links for 28th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/250/links-for-28th-april-2/) - Alert: Possibly Related Posts Feature on WordPress.com Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress - "No control. Implied recommendation or endorsement. Inappropriate links. And a lot of confusion for our readers who believe we choose these links or that they will lead to links on our blog related to what we blog about."
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1431/tweets-for-today-92/) - 22:38 @davebriggs you have to follow @hashtags, then just # away # 11:00 just got @birminghamuk - I have a few ideas for how to use this, but any suggestions welcome #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 28th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/249/links-for-28th-april/) - Seven psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts « Online Journalism Blog - "a new raft of complaints as social media addicts adapt to the demands of new technologies and fluctuating social structures." I think I sometimes get twitter rage, but not for those reasons...
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1425/tweets-for-today-91/) - 17:59 @paulbradshaw not sure @peteashton thought so. Maybe it was bad luck for us. # 19:58 the spotted dog is rocking with blues fans singing along to The Queen is Dead # 23:25 @twm_driver can you make tues night for brum bloggers meet?. It's very much all the tweeters and shakers ;) # 11:58 @twm_driver
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1424/tweets-for-today-90/) - 17:41 @podnosh you old silver surfer, you ;) # 19:42 gone björking # 20:09 @davebriggs mine was a bit confused between WPA and WEP # 20:13 trendy wine bar next to Civic Hall has its own cat! FTW!!!1! # 22:55 björk : störming # 23:14 Telly Savalas Looks At Brum. radio four 10.30am tomorrow. Will
- [A Map of Where I've Been](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1423/a-map-of-where-ive-been/) - A Map of Where I've Been Originally uploaded by bounder I stitched together this map of Birmingham - and then rubbed out everywhere I hadn't been. Original map is roughly this area. You'll need to view this one large...
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/196/tweets-for-today-89/) - 18:55 popping to the haresndhounds for a swift half or two with @probablydrunk and @catnip # 21:08 @BhamPostJoanna @podnosh "is the fastest to catch on" # 22:01 why do they have both newses at ten on at the same time? # 09:04 on the bus, seems to be a school trip on here too. #
- [bless you](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1430/bless-you/) - Sneezecount is one man's attempt to count and document each sneeze he, er, sneezes. He's been doing it since July 2007.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/195/tweets-for-today-88/) - 09:16 @bluemilkshake bookrolled? # 09:24 @sixball having #hashbrows? KGC is very nice, full English is probably cheaper at The York Cafe over the road - I doubt you'd get wifi tho # 10:02 #georgelamb hits the airwaves and suddenly the benefits of timeshifting radio become even more clear # 13:19 @dubber a sort of "Cory
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/194/tweets-for-today-87/) - 18:00 @TomScotney that's very very #middleclass ;) (and I suspect you meant it to sound so) # 18:04 are flickr RSS feeds down for anyone else? # 18:27 It's #Flickr 'upload by email' that's down. (although I haven't seen a new cat in my 'all photos tagged cat' RSS feed for a while either) #
- [Links for 23rd April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/247/links-for-23rd-april/) - blogging brings about BBC action network closure « welcome to voluntary simplicity - "BBC?s action network that previously attempted to get like minded people and groups together, has to admit defeat as bloggers take over. The BBC site has been running for five years but can no longer keep up."
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/193/tweets-for-today-86/) - 20:06 @dubber a "roll" surely? # 08:31 twittervision.com/local/unitedkingdom is nice, twittervision.com/local/birmingham would be nicer (they've got london) # 09:31 tech has taken over my brain, just saw an articile about cats at the vatican - read paypal instead of papal # 12:22 Last Shadow Puppets album is a northern Scott Walker album - and as
- [difference engine unboxing](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1428/difference-engine-unboxing/) - You often see blog posts with photos of unboxing Apple's latest gizmo, or other posh hardware you just can't afford. Well you can't afford this either - it's California's Computer History Museum's unboxing of a replica of Charles Babbage's difference engine. (via).
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/192/tweets-for-today-85/) - 20:43 @aeioux not sure with distance and resolution that it would be possible to read anything. cams round town reacting to movement? # 22:04 #rotunda well of course it should have a big advert for coke. Or show the sky on the other side. Rendering it invisible. Or lolcats # 22:23 #rotunda emotional wellbeing beacon.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/191/tweets-for-today-84/) - 13:05 spent 10 mins finding a P2P stream of the blues game (BEN sports is working on sopcast) - wish I hadn't bothered really #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/190/tweets-for-today-83/) - 18:02 @birminghampost go on, you know you want to... www.plesiosauria.com/paddy.jpg # 18:14 @podnosh sillyold hector, hadn't thought it that way - first non-porn cartoon 'p' google images provides, @birminghampost is very modern ;) # 22:18 @paulbradshaw @simviral is woody woodpecker? # 08:52 Off on a jolly boys outing, tweets – if there are any –
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/189/tweets-for-today-82/) - 18:15 @davebriggs Pipe? # 18:42 is @birminghampost just RSS updates? Or will there be more? # 18:47 @birminghampost personalised tweets, i'm in # 20:16 @podnosh can't find it on the site - is that the problem? # 20:50 @podnosh @davebriggs it is indeed drupal - looks like a glitch at google rather than the site
- [Bookmarks for 17th April through 18th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/246/bookmarks-for-17th-april-through-18th-april/) - These are my links for 17th April through 18th April: Wordcamp UK is coming to Brum - Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008 - leaving Brum bloggers and geeks unfeasibly excited. Sign up, or just have a poke around on the wiki. Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb - We're junkies.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/188/tweets-for-today-81/) - 18:11 i'm not on the bus # 18:31 what happens if you're "on the bus" but use spaces when typing ? # 18:57 tweetsonthebus.wordpress.com/ # 19:33 Some integestion remedy has ripped off the OK GO! treadmills video for an advert. Gah. they should get on the bus and complain. # 19:52 @twm_driver think you should
- [Links for 16th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/245/links-for-16th-april-2/) - 27 Thoughts On Blogging For The Artist - 24. You no longer need to live in New York or Los Angeles. See: Hugh.25. Do not work for the good opinion of anyone. Work for joy, wonder and the Lord God Almighty.26. You do not need a signed letter from The American Academy of Arts and
- [Links for 16th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/244/links-for-16th-april/) - Google Geo Developer series - Loads of instructional video from the Google Geo Developer series
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/187/tweets-for-today-80/) - 21:29 Watching 'American Inventor' on Virgin 1 - it's everything a parody of a US Dragons Den should be - bloody hillarious # 09:45 @peteashton have you turned them inside-out to prolong use? # 10:24 thinking upquestions to ask Stafford's Town Crier. # 10:40 @editorialgirl i was offered a free ticket to see that, but
- [Propose by DS](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1426/propose-by-ds/) - Via Neatorama To propose to his girlfriend Tammy Li, Bernie Peng wrote a game (from scratch!) for her Nintendo DS. After she reached a certain score, the screen cleared and a ring dropped down (she said yes).
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/186/tweets-for-today-79/) - 19:36 @peteashton of course @catnip will be jealous i not asked too # 10:44 @joannageary there's an update to AIR available, may sort your #twhirl out # 11:51 @joannageary @tomscotney surelyno more difficulties than marketing Birmingham seems to cause them # 15:55 @dubber spam, unless on a separate ID #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/185/tweets-for-today-78/) - 10:12 @LloydDavis that program (in connection to computers) isn't spelt "programme" # 10:40 @BhamPostJoanna no video for me either # 10:46 @aeioux yes - i can see you # 12:43 @aeioux a city is a machine for living in (with apoligies to Le Corbussier) # 12:49 @aeioux fashions change - there would have been thousands
- [Links for 14th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/243/links-for-14th-april/) - Yet Another Twitter Badge - Twitter Balloon | korelab - nice twitter badge, must find time to customise one TwitLinks: The Techmeme of Twitter? - ReadWriteWeb - Twitlinks. This aggregates the latest links posted to Twitter by tech industry pundits. The end result is a homepage that kind of resembles Techmeme, only without the threading
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/184/tweets-for-today-77/) - 17:59 there's a deli in the prince, plus pete the feet and Barnard. Backgammon club on Tuesdays who'd've think it # 20:17 nice hour or so with @podnosh and others. Trying the junction in mo now for one. # 00:43 fire alarm at the hare and hounds, couldn't be bothered to wait for the all
- [Links for 13th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/242/links-for-13th-april/) - pubs i am near | tomtaylor.co.uk - "inspired by Simon Willison?s wikinear, it uses Fire Eagle to grab your location, storing your credentials in a cookie. The data is sourced from Open Street Map, which was the only useful source of pub data I could find."pubs
- [cat that plays the theramin](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1422/cat-that-plays-the-theramin/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE] (kthanx)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/183/tweets-for-today-76/) - 19:54 @bluemilkshake is it cold in the goose then? # 20:56 @peteashton ooh yes # 21:03 Turner prize idea. "tackle out catalogue" # 01:31 unfortunately the @kevin_rapley files seem mostly to have been recorded avec lens cap #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/182/tweets-for-today-75/) - 18:08 @joannageary tinyurl.com/6fcalw ? # 21:51 just been to marieceleste.co.uk, but there's nothing there # 21:54 there used to be something good bermudatriangle.com but it's disappeared # 21:58 I went to buffet.org.uk - server not found # 22:05 vacuum.au ... empty # 22:11 gravity.mobi is down # 22:14 ub40.co.uk doesn't work # 22:34 safari can't
- [URL-based twitter social-stand-up](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/181/url-based-twitter-social-stand-up/) - I had a little idea earlier this evening, just a little URL-based one liner - so I twittered it. Some of my followers/followees joined in (and thanks to : catnip bluemilkshake editorialgirl graphiquillan kevin_rapley LloydDavis podnosh probablydrunk ) here's the result. Quick lazyweb request, can someone build a twitter conversation reorderer that presents nice -
- [Links for 10th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/241/links-for-10th-april/) - TwitResponse: Twitter + Autoresponder = TwitResponse - Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want. - Could be usefull
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/180/tweets-for-today-74/) - 17:47 ignored a "change your electricty" hawker as I'm busy he banged the letterbox, rang the bell, then waved frantically through the window, git # 17:48 @aeioux not always going to look great - would skitch help? skitch.com/ # 19:13 Retweeting @marcreeves: Blues bosses Karren Brady and David Sullivan have been arrested # 19:18 @probablydrunk
- [screensaver that makes a splash](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1421/screensaver-that-makes-a-splash/) - I wouldn't often recomend paying money for a screensaver - heck there's tons around for free, and by definition they don't go when you're looking at your screen - but this one (which costs $15 to buy) is simply stunning: [youtube:http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=EoZmBjaFWto&fmt=18]
- [Fridgets](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/179/fridgets/) - I'm not one to resist a meme, not when it's as good a statement of intent of use of Flickr's new video sharing as Fridgets, people showing you what's in their fridges.
- [Links for 9th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/240/links-for-9th-april/) - Journalism.co.uk :: Case study: diary of a regional newspaper video journalist - Journalism.co.uk spent a day experiencing life on the front line with the videojournalism team at Wolverhampton's Express and Star.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/178/tweets-for-today-73/) - 19:59 @denitu the verb is to tweet apparently # 21:37 Hoping @peteashton will do his football comentary narrowcasts # 22:58 watching the rerun of the Chelsea game. Can't turn computer on , or I'll see the result. # 09:22 @petelewis i'm not sure flickr is about 'art' as such (it's about 5% cats), but video
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/177/tweets-for-today-72/) - 13:14 @hanuman tried that about a year or so ago, it didn't work too well - maybe they've fixed it # 13:30 @hanuman good - it looked really handy, my phone (N95) was rubbish - got an iPhone now,so now apps for a while # 16:13 @peteashton anything but normal butter/marge/soya bassed spead (my personal
- [Links for 8th April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/238/links-for-8th-april/) - Tweet Clouds - My tweet cloud
- [lego history](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1419/lego-history/) - A photographer from the Midlands spends ages building lego scenes from photographic history. Real Player video.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1416/tweets-for-today-71/) - 09:10 @aeioux I think people would be odd not to start thinking about the content and number of tweets - might not necessarily ramp down tho # 09:50 George Lamb is off for two weeks - the world is a much brighter place # 15:58 attempting to use flickr's organiser to tag 14,000 pics at
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1415/tweets-for-today-70/) - 18:20 @brendadada my tweets are here: www.jonbounds.co.uk/ramblings/ (read from bottom up. Paul did something to collate, will try to find #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1414/tweets-for-today-69/) - 17:46 "tolling as a hazing ritual" not sure on that one # 17:49 p284 first mention of anonymity - that's some going # 17:51 @hellocatfood indeed my bad typing - one handed while reading # 17:57 if the costs of a transaction become too low it loses its power # 18:02 The Digg revolt -
- [please unsubscribe me from your internet](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1418/please-unsubscribe-me-from-your-internet/) - From the great Neatorama: Mike Duncan’s company got this fantastic letter from a woman named Joyce who wanted to be unsubscribed from "his internet" because, she wrote, "My internet gets too full all the time".
- [gaol baby](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1417/gaol-baby/) - Desperate for your offspring to have that 50s American jailbird look? With a bit of country cool thrown in? You need the Johnny Cash babygrow. (via)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1413/tweets-for-today-68/) - 18:35 finished a piece for BBC Stoke, a Post blog post, and some other stuff. Feel like I've _done _ something for the first time in ages. # 23:04 doesn't the town hall look lovely under TV lights? # 23:37 @peteashton yup - thought it was a clever reference to anonymous initially # 23:49 Just
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1412/tweets-for-today-67/) - 10:35 @dubber NZ based proxy server? Only guessing, beeb version works on guessing by your ip address # 11:41 @catnip oh yeah, i gave them your mobile number for that # 11:50 @catnip "stretched my twitbin" it's Carry on Twitter all over again # 14:58 @ChrisUnitt it's nice, what does it mean? # 15:07 @hellocatfood
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1411/tweets-for-today-66/) - 02:29 stayed up way too late cos we'd had an idea I had to implement _right now_ just a little joke site. Will spread link in rlthe morning. # 08:37 Http://www.mithr.co.uk is #twitter for your mum # 10:05 @paulbradshaw what happens when they're longer than 140 charcters? # 11:00 @kevin_rapley @bluemilkshake I thank you, it
- [Links for 1st April](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/234/links-for-1st-april/) - Convert Your Paper to iPaper | Scribd - Free OCR service - wow.
- [the truth about T5](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1410/the-truth-about-t5/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQc_CnecyL0]
- [mithr, twitter for your mum](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1409/mithr-twitter-for-your-mum/) - Does your mum witter on about nothing? Get her on mithr, microblogging for your mum.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1406/tweets-for-today-65/) - 17:39 @DowningStreet - three tweets with same news item this afternoon # 17:53 @davebriggs better than eating there ;) # 19:44 being a naughty schoolkid, apparently. At brim bloggers meet. # 10:40 I think I've just been had, I've blogged a story about Castle Vale getting an olympic event # 11:02 @aeioux have i just
- [mad as hell and not going to take it any more](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1408/mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-any-more/) - photo credit: sun dazed AngryJournalist.com is where journalists get angry. Very Very angry.
- [Links for 31st March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/233/links-for-31st-march/) - Omnisio - splice anc omment online vids - "Annotate and share videos, Create video compilations, Add your own in-video comments Embed on your site or profile" it says. Worth a look.
- [Want to buy a football club?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1405/want-to-buy-a-football-club/) - Is the target market for this really worth using Google Ads?
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1404/tweets-for-today-64/) - 09:06 at the dentist. Waiting for mouth to go numb. Scares the shite out of me. # 09:58 @davebriggs yup done about five. No real issues. # 09:59 finished with pain for today. Unless the bloggers meet turns nasty # 10:37 @livebrum I'll be there very early - would love to see it # 15:46
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1403/tweets-for-today-63/) - 20:33 doing somw WP upgrades. New 2.5 admin is startlingly different # 21:46 @podnosh what's the alternative? # 21:50 @podnosh very very little scope for customisation - a charge for your own css, charge for your url # 21:52 @podnosh and no embeding of flash in posts from what i remember # 21:57 @podnosh although,
- [Fifth Beatles](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1402/fifth-beatles/) - I've thought for a long time that there was a great eposodic book (or possbily radio doc series)Â in having a chapter on each of the peopl that have a some point or another been called the "fifth beatle" - anyone is welcome to have a go, I'll never get round to it. Neil Aspinall's
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1401/tweets-for-today-62/) - 20:18 @probablydrunk i like it # 20:21 @paulbradshaw I think that might really have been the thinking behind google reader # 20:44 anyone fancy joining in blogging at www.hampstr.co.uk/? # 23:51 @catnip tinyurl.com/2vuqlh # 09:53 @BhamPostJoanna think you might have to have different avatars or the two accounts thing might confuse a stupid person (ie
- [Links for 28th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/232/links-for-28th-march/) - cybersoc.com: bbc manchester blog: end of the project is a great starting point - Great round up of the BBC's Manchester blog project - that worked because it was more like how bloggers worked than how the Beeb works (imho). A very good project for traditional media publishers to study.
- [windows the musical](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1394/windows-the-musical/) - code code code is a heart-wrenching paean to lost love, lyrics mostly written in basic.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1400/tweets-for-today-61/) - 19:13 DIY/male grooming - it's the way forward # 09:44 @marcreeves but he did it with a pair of pliers... # 09:46 now over 100 loldeirdres and each one funnier than the last. thanks interweb www.flickr.com/photos/loldeirdre/ # 10:44 @aeioux @BhamPostJoanna only if you all pluck something with tools # 10:59 @BhamPostJoanna does that hurt? #
- [DIY/male grooming live](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1393/diymale-grooming-live/) - bambuser is a service where your can stream from your phone or webcam - live. Today I watched Pete Ashton pull out excess eyebrow hairs. I can't say tweezed, because he used a pair of pliers. You can watch the archive, I'm claiming it was my idea.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1399/tweets-for-today-60/) - 18:33 messing with hashtags - is anyone using #birminghamuk ? # 14:52 @probablydrunk @peteashton now that's something I would watch streaming over the web # 15:41 @jezhiggins it's otterffic #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 25th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/231/links-for-25th-march/) - Imeem Opens Its Massive Media Catalog to Third Parties | Listening Post from Wired.com - Applications created by outside developers using the imeem Media Platform will have access to the entire catalog, which could make for some compelling music-discovery and listening tools. Every photo and video on the site is also fair game.
- [do want](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1392/do-want/) - Via Engadget
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1398/tweets-for-today-59/) - 12:24 @TomScotney it's what your blog is made for... # 13:51 @bluemilkshake and they said it wasn't going on till this evening. dragged me from my bed this morning they did # 14:14 @podnosh oh, The Big Picture - trying to coax some snaps out of our WM public # 14:16 @davebriggs if you don't
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1397/tweets-for-today-58/) - 15:09 Just drove all the way home from Torquay and some idot shunts me in Kings Heath. Not mycar either. shite # 15:16 @podnosh yeah, fine. just pissed off ;) #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1396/tweets-for-today-57/) - 20:09 interweb lack spooked me so much I've sprung for a 3g modem # 11:00 @peteashton there's just too much LOL # 13:16 in Totnes. It's nice, if a little closed. @catnip has bought an accordian #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1382/tweets-for-today-56/) - 19:04 in hotel. The vegitarian option is fish. Free wifi in reception tho. # 00:26 Losing at connect four to @catnip #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [the internet. orange, blackcurrant and lemonade](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1391/the-internet-orange-blackcurrant-and-lemonade/) - The Internet. Orange, blackcurrant and lemonade Originally uploaded by bounder A series of tubes full of pop. Spotted in an hotel in Torquay, England.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1381/tweets-for-today-55/) - 19:34 vampire flick it is then... # 21:34 off for a pint. Vampire fun was had by all. # 22:03 in the prince. Slowest service ever. # 15:06 just past Bristol. On cocodamol and Beck's. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1380/tweets-for-today-54/) - 17:58 Cat Power's 'New Yorl New York' is fabulous, not so much as Alex Turner's Last Shadow Puppets side project tho'. Good tunes. # 19:48 @peteashton and then....? # 20:08 @puceteam anyone? # 09:15 @ChrisUnitt NOTHING needs to be more like mobile phone companies! Why, pray tell... # 11:35 Open data will come, perhaps -
- [Links for 19th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/230/links-for-19th-march-2/) - Companies House Website, Office Hours Only - Bobbie Johnson -
- [super mario mitosis?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/24/super-mario-mitosis/) - Cosplayers created (broke is better, but there wasn't one before) a World Record for the greatest number of humans dressed as videogame characters in London yesterday. It's only 80 which means it must be easily beatable. (via)
- [Links for 19th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/229/links-for-19th-march/) - Twitter Fan Wiki - unofficial Twitter wiki - Lots of links to mashups and info
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1379/tweets-for-today-53/) - 18:15 It would be reall interesting to map migration to different twitter clients - that'd find the "thought leaders" # 00:58 3 solid hours, but finally got @catnip's pc to see the wireless again after vista sp1 update. # 08:57 at QE about having my wisdom teeth out, which is good cos they really hurt.Hospitals
- [the age of the understatement](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1390/the-age-of-the-understatement/) - Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Tuner and Miles Kane of The Rascals are The Last Shadow Puppets – this is the video for their first single. The video is smart, the song epic, swooshing, beat-y and wonderful – can't wait for the album. Link (Via)
- [obligatory arthur c clip](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1374/obligatory-arthur-c-clip/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FFkvhoEfX8]
- [hampstr lnk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1389/hampstr-lnk-3/) - Stuff your cheeks with: 2008 LOLCalendar - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag - This is a free Year 2008 calendar for you to download and print. It's full of cute kitty pictures with ridiculous captions.
- [put this on random](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1388/put-this-on-random/) - Etsy :: catsicle :: geeky ipod cat toy
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1378/tweets-for-today-52/) - 19:48 down the blues # 12:58 anthony minghella dies. # 13:19 @podnosh that sounds like the best opening line to a British middle-clas blues song ever...! # 15:10 @aeioux is there a way FON could be pushed (not free as such, but...) #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 18th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/227/links-for-18th-march/) - Twitter Etiquette | Global Geek News Blog - "it has become clear that some facets of twitter are beginning to annoy people. For the benefit of all twitterers, I have a list of rules for Twitter usage." Not as much as his post appears to have annoyed. I think the automated post thing is right
- [avast me occasional table](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/14/avast-me-occasional-table/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89SrcCHuI90] I know where I'll be buying my furniture. (via)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1377/tweets-for-today-51/) - 19:10 @TomScotney blimey. Wonder how Boris coped with yam yam lsnd # 23:52 @peteashton googlism? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [penguino central](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1387/penguino-central/) - AntarcticM on flickr is lucky enough to work at the South Pole, and she gets to take brilliant up-close photos of the wildlife. So penguins and seals galore
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1376/tweets-for-today-50/) - 22:41 how many doccumentaries can BBC Four show about advertising in one go? If I see the Smash Martians once more.. Where are the PG Tips chi ... #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [how does grecian 2000 work?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1386/how-does-grecian-2000-work/) - photo credit: cote Unlike women's hair dye (and why are they separate products?) and "Just For Men", Grecian 2000 only sells one colour/type. I cannot understand how it knows what colour to die the grey hair, but it does. Magic?
- [passive aggressive notes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1385/passive-aggressive-notes/) - The Passive Aggressive Notes Flickr group is full of the kind of notes left by people in shared houses that are really angry, but too polite to shout.
- [Got one!](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/222/got-one/) - I've been searching for the Holy Grail of social media crossposting – a Facebook status that is a tweet announcing a blog post auto-generated from del.icio.us links – and here is one:
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1375/tweets-for-today-49/) - 09:50 lovely flash twitter contact maper tinyurl.com/3yzwhg # 10:30 @BhamPostJoanna What's the geographical spread of visitors? I'm guessing that "exiles" want this in-depth local footy news? not so hyprlcl? # 10:41 @TomScotney @BhamPostJoanna Not so sure the beeb will last too much longer # 10:49 @TomScotney @BhamPostJoanna @peteahston some enterprising sales-soul needs to set up
- [hampstr lnk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1384/hampstr-lnk-2/) - Stuff your cheeks with: Pi Day » The official web site for Pi Day, March 14th - Pi, Greek letter (?), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535... Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th.
- [i can has news?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1383/i-can-has-news/) - New York's Metroland news weekly knows that it's lolcats you need to tell a story. Turns out lolcats are the story.
- [The 3rd of Twelvember](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1371/the-3rd-of-twelvember/) - The only day of the year that I'm even remotely interested in backwards counter-intuitive date counting such as what the American do. 14/3 is of course π day.
- [Links for 14th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/221/links-for-14th-march/) - Planet Birmingham - Nine webfeeds about - rather than just in - Brum squidged together.
- [twitter friends network browser](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1373/twitter-friends-network-browser/) - Twitter Friends Network Browser gives you a bouncy map of yours (or anyone's) twitter contacts. Throw the avatars around, click to expand the map. (Via)
- [hey nice beaver](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/6/hey-nice-beaver/) - [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgiHvHrOZl8] Australian advert that (I assume) has something to do with women's periods. It's a step up from the five-a-side, rollerblading, shite we would normally see. Via Kitchbitch
- [hampstr lnk](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/5/hampstr-lnk/) - Stuff your cheeks with: Papercraft ceiling cat - Tubbypaws - meow, you can has lolcats. presenting tubbypaws new happy papercraft of the deity of lolcats, ceiling cat.
- [evolutionary dead-ends](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1372/evolutionary-dead-ends/) - Useless Body Parts "From wisdom teeth to ear muscles to male nipples, the human body has a number of "useless" parts. Check out these anatomical extras that humans still have but no longer need." Photo by schoschie
- [show us your tweets](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1/show-us-your-tweets-2/) - Now twitter has gone truly mainstream - you need to show off your ID.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1370/tweets-for-today-48/) - 09:04 @podnosh but where? your tinyurl isn't working for me # 16:24 @podnosh @catnip @peteashton no, but she did make pople think that MArtin Mullaney ran it ;) # 16:31 @podnosh more to the point it's a brilliant way of watching telly #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 12th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/220/links-for-12th-march-2/) - How Google Earth Ate Our Town - TIME - Nanaimo's planning department has, over the past five years, steadily fed Google a wealth of information about its buildings, property lines, utilities and streets.
- [Show us your tweets](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1369/show-us-your-tweets/) - Now twitter has gone truly mainstream - you need to show off your ID.
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1368/tweets-for-today-47/) - 08:04 @peteashton Your taxi friend must have watched us ;) We are shit – it's sort of the point. # 08:14 Updated the fromt page of www.upyerbrum.com/ with a stab at some AJAX. auto-updates mean it's a little closer to that "river of brum" # 10:47 @podnosh no way am I trying that # 11:25
- [Links for 12th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/219/links-for-12th-march/) - Google Code Blog: YouTube APIs for developers and for... iguana enthusiasts - YouTube API? hmmmm Blogging plants - D?log :: blogging since 2000 - ??an open source platform to allow people to design their own blogging robots? LearnHub | Teach and Learn online. - A 'social learning' network ? and even marketplace for tutors.
- [Links for 11th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/218/links-for-11th-march/) - FriendFeedFeed - Too many social newtorking aggregators? Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds! via TechCrunch
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1367/tweets-for-today-46/) - 14:23 And we're back. 1&1 database servers went down, causing much outage. Fixed now # 14:46 Sitting hapily with my ginger cat, I'm writing a spec, he's sleeping on his tail #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1366/tweets-for-today-45/) - 11:45 @kevin_rapley he'd be better of he had a wig tho #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Bookmarks for 5th March through 7th March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/216/bookmarks-for-5th-march-through-7th-march/) - These are my links for 5th March through 7th March: iPhones Human Interface Guidelines - cybersoc.com: translate your twitter feed for a global conversation - Good attempt, using yahoo pipes SmartPlanet.com - News, reviews and video on green and ethical products at - Good start - now get the info via barcode via phone thing
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1365/tweets-for-today-44/) - 19:28 tribute bands. Gah # 20:02 it's abba, the set is very poor # 22:04 bjorn has a beard made by burning the end of a cork. Like when you go to a school fancy dress parade as a tramp. # 22:21 Worst wigs in showbiz. If this us showbiz # 22:28 which side was
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1364/tweets-for-today-43/) - 17:36 @TomScotney has he got a big magnet or something? # 20:36 @peteashton it's not "a bit" drunk any more then. Is your speech being recorded anywhere? ;) # 22:48 @aeioux you did catch her # 23:08 @peteashton is there not a big screen you can make faces at? # 23:17 it's suspiciously quiet. on
- [George Lamb, electro-protest](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1363/george-lamb-electro-protest/) - "He didn't like it up him earlier this week when we did a mass protest. Tried to make out Panic by the Smiths was his favourite record....Really??? Monday @ 11am text your favourite lyrics from "panic" by the Smiths.... "hang the dj" comes to mind email: george.6music@bbc.co.uk text: 64046"
- [Not a virus, maybe not real yet, but very smart](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1362/not-a-virus-maybe-not-real-yet-but-very-smart/)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1361/tweets-for-today-42/) - 20:45 uploading 5,000 pictures to flickr. # 11:20 @BhamPostJoanna a t-shirt with all your usernames on it, that's what you need. Scratch that, it's my new business idea. # 14:08 5000 photos are up. Just need another 8 people with DVDs like that... # 14:47 @podnosh @aeioux don't you think @peteashton would look brill in
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1360/tweets-for-today-41/) - 18:56 @peteashton "Tramp who lives on a mini-roundabout"? That's Wolverhampton surely... #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1359/tweets-for-today-40/) - 18:20 the journallist on the Six o'clock news is wearing jeans - I must be old, cos that doesn't seem right #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 3rd March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/215/links-for-3rd-march-2/) - Trent Reznor 'releases' new album on Pirate Bay - Now that we're no longer constrained by a record label, we've decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in f
- [Links for 3rd March](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/214/links-for-3rd-march/) - The Charms of Wikipedia - The New York Review of Books - "Pop-Tarts are a "flat Cookie." No: "Pop-Tarts are a flat Pastry, KEVIN MCCORMICK is a FRIGGIN LOSER"
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1358/tweets-for-today-39/) - 21:13 missing eurovision. Dj-ing at party. Still, blues scored four. Woot. # 21:13 missing eurovision. Dj-ing at party. Still, blues scored four. Woot. # 21:13 missing eurovision. Dj-ing at party. Still, blues scored four. Woot. # 00:50 who got through to eurovision? # 11:49 Twitter might be good for earthquakes, but not one of you
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1357/tweets-for-today-38/) - 19:02 Collings and Herrin podcast - brill # 23:16 @podnosh must be a tornado #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Links for 29th February](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/210/links-for-29th-february/) - Googlebomb Watch - Site that tracks Google Bombs
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1356/tweets-for-today-37/) - 09:34 @aeioux Is University of Birmingham too watered down by BCU, UCB - should they just go for BU? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Going mainstream](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/211/going-mainstream/) - I was pleased to be asked, and am now one of the Birmingham Post's bloggers on its newly relaunched website. Despite the hallowed environs of the mainstream press it's not a paid gig – so why am I doing it? And more to the point what am I doing in the Lifestyle section? Adding another
- [Links for 28th February](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/208/links-for-28th-february/) - Online Shops for Niche Products / ShopWindoz - Etsy for europe? One stop shop for leather leiderhosen min-dresses and amigarumia at the mo' South By South West Midlands - A group from the West Midlands go to South By South West Interactive. Lucky, lucky, sods, we're not jealous or anything... ;) But seriously, they're offering
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1355/tweets-for-today-36/) - 17:48 @davebriggs So you can group unrealted photos (favouites for example) without inventing meaningless - to others - tags? Not sure # 17:51 @davebriggs Oh and you can add another Title/description to a set # 17:58 @davebriggs Sets on Flickr do seem a hang-over from an old way of thinking. If they weren't already there
- [Bookmarks for 26th February through 28th February](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/207/bookmarks-for-26th-february-through-28th-february/) - These are my links for 26th February through 28th February: GeoPic II geotags your Nikon shots, saves on battery - Engadget - ITN doctors footage - Apparently they dropped advertising into the background of Brits items? Dodgy TweetVolume - see how often stuf gets twittered - a sort of "twitterfight" press complaints commission to investigate
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1354/tweets-for-today-35/) - 17:45 An appreciation of Bernie Clifton on 6Music now. Top listening. # 18:12 @BhamPostJoanna Er, ar you going descriptive for search engines, or headliney? # 18:24 @BhamPostJoanna let's say "We're at 52 degrees North, and that will become important"? # 19:10 @podnosh what an annoying site # 21:33 @bluemilkshake Is it stable enough to blog
- [Dial - a - rant](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1353/dial-a-rant/) - Mark Steadman, of the New Media Junkie podcast has had a great idea - and has just gone out and "f–ing done it" (his phrase). It's Dial-a-rant - a free-by-skype (or normal call charge) answering machine. You phone up, vent your spleen, then go online to claim your bile. You've then got a direct link
- [This is what I'm reading in 2008](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/205/this-is-what-im-reading-in-2008/) - I spent an enjoyable hour or so today talking about blogs in a way I hadn't really considered before. A TV company are hoping to make a programme or programmes based around Reading (no not the Berkshire town) - and had for some reason asked me to contribute to a 'taster' version (I'm, guessing a
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1352/tweets-for-today-34/) - 19:28 @BhamPostJoanna click on a 'section' under the main image - all the colours change.. # 13:04 Spent a chunk of the morning reading out bits of cuteoverload for a TV pilot. I;m guessing pilot might be where it stays # 14:59 @aeioux accountancy and PR? They love talking about web 2.0, but I'm not
- [Links for 26th February](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/204/links-for-26th-february/) - FriendFeed - Not sure if this is interesting - it's a very light social network build on your existing feeds.
- [Links for 25th February](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/203/links-for-25th-february/) - Puffbox on the Telegraph Style Guide - "As you might expect it?s a curious mix of the web-friendly and the conservative (with a small, and probably also a large C)."
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1351/tweets-for-today-33/) - 19:49 @bluemilkshake cut away, leave the badger impression tho'... # 11:03 trawling through Big Picture photos was becoming a chore then - 50' polar bear tinyurl.com/2nyoyk # 13:01 @aeioux Already baking a cake with a file in it #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1350/tweets-for-today-32/) - 18:04 @BhamPostJoanna oops, accuse me of skim reading. I'll try to dig one out # 16:27 L:home=birmingham,uk # 16:34 twitbin won't let me in #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-02-23](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/202/links-for-2008-02-23/) - Wordpress Newsletter Plugin » ShiftThis.net The WordPress Newsletter Plugin allows you to create and manage newsletter creation and mailing list management all within the WordPress environment. - paid for plugin. (tags: blog wordpress plugin newsletter cms) Fahlstad.se » WP-Forum, WordPress plugin (tags: wordpress forum plugin)
- [links for 2008-02-22](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/201/links-for-2008-02-22/) - No pictures, or sound, from Olympic Bloggers posting of sound, moving images, and still pictures is not permitted. This guidelines apply to any Olympic events, including the "sporting actions" themselves, the ceremonies, or any other activities that require an "Olympic identity or ticket."
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1349/tweets-for-today-31/) - 15:14 @marcreeves Hadn't seen it, but the URL wasn't hard to guess. Navigation tabs are a bit ugly, nice clean design otherwise #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Broing Broing?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1348/broing-broing/) - The danger in hanging out with fun, creative, people who you don't necessarily have anything in common with is that you come away with more ideas, and less time to "do" them in. Such is life, and such is what happens to me when I go to a Birmingham Bloggers meeting (I don't hold with
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1347/tweets-for-today-30/) - 19:25 being a birmingham blogger #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-02-19](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/200/links-for-2008-02-19/) - OUseful Info: MyMaps GeoBlogger - Blogging From Google Maps The pipe effectively allows you to use a Google My Map as a "geographical blogging surface". Each marker on the map corresponds to a separate post, or feed item. (tags: mashup maps googlemaps google geotagging blogging yahoopipes georss geocoding yahoo rss blog)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1346/tweets-for-today-29/) - 19:02 Finished messing. Now thinking about how to deal with (what I suspect are) 'offical' SPAM comments . # 14:09 just finished launching The Big Picture # 15:55 @BhamPostJoanna Twitter is "IMing the world" or "The global open-plan office". ;) #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-02-18](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/199/links-for-2008-02-18/) - ICEHOTEL pricelist winter 07/08 if only they didn't only seem to eat reindeer...
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1345/tweets-for-today-28/) - 15:16 making a few changes to the BiNS homepage - and having terrible sinusitus #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-02-17](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/198/links-for-2008-02-17/) - GeoNames RSS to GeoRSS Converter GeoNames "RSS to GeoRSS Converter" reads the entries of an RSS feed and searches the GeoNames Database to find a location for the entry text. If a relevant location is found, its latitude and longitude are added to the RSS feed using the GeoRSS encoding. (tags: georss geo geocoding geotagging)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1344/tweets-for-today-27/) - 17:44 I finally own that Bill Oddie single on John Peel's record label. This makes me suspiciously happy. # 08:37 I'm off to visit Oscar the donkey. # 08:37 # 12:53 seen the donkeys. Now for my sister #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1343/tweets-for-today-26/) - 22:15 I've made a new toy www.flickrfight.co.uk # 22:23 @aeioux someone tags thier images with thier name! ego-tastic ;) # 22:25 Answer to the age old question: tinyurl.com/3xrwq3 # 22:25 @aeioux cats - but the %age is tiny # 22:32 @aeioux Big Picuture only version www.jonbounds.co.uk/bpflickrfight # 22:50 @juniperific no cats? what kind of a
- [links for 2008-02-14](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/197/links-for-2008-02-14/) - Dapper easy RSS (and other content) widgeiser (tags: rss widget) the interruption | DavePress the interruption is going to be a weekly chat between me and someone doing something exciting in social media and web 2.0 in the UK. The first episode is with Paul Johnston of Cisco, who is behind a new web community
- [That's me being furious, that is](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1342/thats-me-being-furious-that-is/) - Fury at matches abroad - Birmingham Mail - thank god that the awful picture of me didn't make the online version.
- [Sometimes you need a little help making decisions](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1341/sometimes-you-need-a-little-help-making-decisions/) - So that's where Flickr Fight comes in. It's a little toy I made to bring the power of Flickr into everyday decision-making - just type in two words and see which one wins. Here's a few of my favourite so far: Daddy Vs Chips Cats Vs Dogs Rock Vs Disco
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1340/tweets-for-today-25/) - 23:31 don't much like the menu on apple tv 2.0 software. too much iTunes, not enough tunes # 10:14 Flickr feeds on apple TV 2.0 are smashing tho' # 11:10 @juniperific two fingers to you too - now what's the iPhone url? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1339/tweets-for-today-24/) - 18:18 I've had to give in and make a BiNS myspace, yuk: www.myspace.com/birminghamitsnotshit # 13:48 any mac screen capture (video) tips? # 13:53 @aeioux cheers - will give it a whirll #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1338/tweets-for-today-23/) - 17:32 NO TO GAM£ 39 #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-02-09](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/176/links-for-2008-02-09/) - Lost negatives of Robert Capa finally end up in New York - International Herald Tribune three flimsy cardboard valises - contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War (tags: photography) alertle It's an RSS readre that pretends not to be
- [NO TO GAM£ 39](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1337/no-to-gam-39/) - Facebook Group Previous RantÂ
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1336/tweets-for-today-22/) - 20:35 I'm spittign mad about the daft Preimer League abroad plan. Mad enough to blog about football preview.tinyurl.com/24qnb9 # 15:56 @davebriggs who's it aimed at are there any little in-jokes you could use? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-02-08](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/175/links-for-2008-02-08/) - Man gaoled for fake Facebook profile I'm against them, but maybe this is a bit strong. (tags: Facebook) Facebook as a Vehicle for Social Change (tags: facebook)
- [Music Fact](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1335/music-fact/) - Mark Ronson is Mike Flowers, and not even good Mike Flowers. Can he please go away?
- [David Gold and friends decide that the concept of league football is over](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1334/david-gold-and-friends-decide-that-the-concept-of-league-football-is-over/) - "It's a great chance for your brand" said David Gold, Chairman of Birmingham City, about the plan to destroy the concept of league football and play one Premier League game abroad per team, per season. "The Premier League, which is the greatest league the world has ever known, is being adventurous, looking forward, looking to
- [links for 2008-02-07](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/174/links-for-2008-02-07/) - Issuu - You Publish YouTube for PDFs - nice interface and embedable widget (tags: pdf web2.0 widget) Google Docs - Forms "Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won’t need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1333/tweets-for-today-21/) - 14:24 @TomScotney try Donarto at www.bostin.net/ (T-shirts)? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Would Microsoft do this?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1332/would-microsoft-do-this/) - Would Microsoft do this? Originally uploaded by bounder
- [links for 2008-02-05](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/171/links-for-2008-02-05/) - 10 tips for integrating your del.icio.us links into your blog It's not a replacement for content, but a good way to share the quick links (tags: del.icio.us blog) MySpace API launches it'll still look headache inducing tho' (tags: API myspace)
- [links for 2008-02-04](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/170/links-for-2008-02-04/) - How to fix comments on newspaper sites - Messy Media "Editors have to own the entirety of their web offering, including the technology. " (tags: journalism online comments newspapers) sprout online flash widget builder - try the beta here. It'a a bit like yahoo pipes, but for rich content. (tags: cool design flash mashup tools
- [You don't need exclusive info to see that team are crap and the shirt ugly](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1331/you-dont-need-exclusive-info-to-see-that-team-are-crap-and-the-shirt-ugly/) - New England Away shirt released - with 'QR' technology: TheFA.com - Keep your shirt on England’s rich heritage is married with revolutionary technology by incorporating a QR (Quick Read) code into the shirt’s label. This effectively serves to bring the shirt to life, enabling fans to access a unique QR website. Upon photographing the code
- [links for 2008-02-02](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/169/links-for-2008-02-02/) - Free Public WiFi - Pogue’s Posts- New York Times Blog Non Virus "viral" Windows thing - it broadcasts the name of the last network you atempted to connect to (when you don't have a wifi connection). Very odd - would be interesting to map the spead of this. (tags: wifi NYT Pogue Windows)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1330/tweets-for-today-20/) - 14:16 has anyone got a photo of the outside of the Pat Kav? Designing a flyer and it's _far_ to cold to go and take one #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Mike Figgis on bus etiquette](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1329/mike-figgis-on-bus-etiquette/) - more here
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1328/tweets-for-today-19/) - 17:03 @philcoyne what goes on at a tweetup? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-01-30](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/168/links-for-2008-01-30/) - Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move Fantastically interesting way to use FB data offsite. (tags: api facebook widgets socialnetworks mashup technology) .htaccess tricks and tips.. part two: url rewriting with mod rewrite. (tags: htaccess apache mod_rewrite web tutorial)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1327/tweets-for-today-18/) - 17:47 RIP Abdul Latif, Lord of Harpole # 09:56 @joannageary Newspaper journalists should write stories. Video is far too shallow a medium, just watch local TV. # 11:43 Actually fairly impressed with the new Evening Mail website tinyurl.com/2d9h3v #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-01-29](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/167/links-for-2008-01-29/) - Download Flickr Pics Windows only (tags: flickr) Introducing Prologue « WordPress.com A twitter like theme for wordpress - now if someone could pull together a Tumblr style bookmarklet posting system, we'd be away... (tags: blogging blogs interesting wordpress twitter microblogging) GreenPrint World Edition "GreenPrint World Edition identifies and removes unnecessary pages or space—like images you
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1326/tweets-for-today-17/) - 15:03 @TomScotney Go on, use it... #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1325/tweets-for-today-16/) - 11:27 had a busy week, not been aware of much. Have I missed anything important? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-01-19](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/166/links-for-2008-01-19/) - MonitorThis Create OPML file across 22 search engines for a search term (tags: rss search opml tools feeds monitor)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1324/tweets-for-today-15/) - 11:59 @davebriggs Mac Mini's are sweet, but when you need to expand it's cable city #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-01-18](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/165/links-for-2008-01-18/) - Flickr: The Commons Huge US Library of Congress flickr account - hoping users will tag to flesh out metadata (tags: flickre metadatam tags crowdsourcing copyright community history photography)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1323/tweets-for-today-14/) - 18:44 Does Twitbin say this to you a lot? "Unfortunately you've exceeded Twitter's maximum hourly requests," # 14:59 I can now shout "I've bloody done it!" every time Adam Hart Davies tries to scare me about my Tax Return # 15:08 @TomScotney: if the docks in Liverpool (whc.unesco.org/en/list/1150) are worthy then I'd say so. It
- [links for 2008-01-16](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/162/links-for-2008-01-16/) - Archant’s Web Editor on geotagging "Could 2008 be the year geotagging breaks through?" It should. (tags: geotagging news)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1322/tweets-for-today-13/) - 09:47 looking for a picture that's recognisably Staffordshire - have you taken one I can use? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-01-14](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/161/links-for-2008-01-14/) - Athens Olympics Sites - domains lapsed Organisers aren't the only ones to blame, old World Cup sites are lost too. (tags: domain event)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1321/tweets-for-today-12/) - 13:16 fed with unrealistic demands. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1320/tweets-for-today-11/) - 13:53 upyerbrum.com. now with added birminghamUK tag goodness # 14:52 Watching the darts, messing with wordpress #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1319/tweets-for-today-10/) - 09:31 looking for nice pictures of the midlans on flickr (not too arty) if anyone has any , pls link me #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1318/tweets-for-today-9/) - 09:22 Torys mistake Birmingham Alabama for Brum, he he: tinyurl.com/yoj8lq #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1317/tweets-for-today-8-2/) - 09:18 Who are 'Crusty Demons' and how are the gigging at the NEC? #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-01-08](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/159/links-for-2008-01-08/) - Friends Reunited to drop sbscription model? ITV is planning to ditch Friends Reunited’s subscription model and associations with ITV (wise move) and make it advertiser-funded. According to Hitwise Friends Reunited was the 14th-most-visited social networking site with a 0.53% share of UK visits la (tags: socialnetwork freindsreunited advertising)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1316/tweets-for-today-7-2/) - 19:46 delicate knife skills required to stick hanpanda money to wall. # 09:16 I'm trying to be disciplined, it's a very odd feeling getting up on a Monday morning to work for yourself. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2008-01-07](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/147/links-for-2008-01-07/) - Prediction Markets as strategy (tags: Geekery, socialmedia)
- [links for 2008-01-02](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/138/links-for-2008-01-02/) - Saudi-Arabia has arrested the country’s most popular blogger for “purposes of interrogation,” has been vocal in discussing corruption and advocating government reform. A Interior Ministry spokesman said al-Farhan was “being questioned about specific violations of nonsecurity laws.” No charges have yet been laid but family members have been den (tags: Geekery freedom SaudiArabia blog) Hoosgot
- [links for 2008-01-01](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/137/links-for-2008-01-01/) - Friends Lists - Facebook | The Facebook Blog "create named lists of friends that you can use to organize your relationships whichever way works best for you. These private lists can be used to message people, send group or event invitations, and to filter updates from certain groups of friends." (tags: facebook internet privacy friends)
- [links for 2007-12-30](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/136/links-for-2007-12-30/) - Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign Nice, and 10,000 full fonts archive (tags: fonts free download design)
- [links for 2007-12-29](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/135/links-for-2007-12-29/) - Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use - washingtonpost.com In legal documents in its case against Jeffrey Howell, who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. (tags: music
- [links for 2007-12-27](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/134/links-for-2007-12-27/) - The Blogfather Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term “weblog” Dec. 17, 1997 and the rest, as they blog, was history. As you can see Jorn hasn’t shaved since 1997, presumably because he’s been too busy blogging. Wired News asked Jorn to share his top ten ti (tags: blogging)
- [links for 2007-12-24](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/133/links-for-2007-12-24/) - Internal Business Social Networking Superb post on business social networking..."a company isn't a single entity at all, it is a group of people who have social relationships and who need some of those relationships to remain hidden." (tags: Media 2.0 Workgroup Geekery)
- [I'm going to spend my Christmas with a Dalek](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1315/im-going-to-spend-my-christmas-with-a-dalek/) - One with a cold, it seems when you listen to this frankly awful, but somehow wonderful Christmas single. Daleks' voices are done electronically (I hope I'm not spoiling the magic there) - not here it seems.
- [That's What I Like](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1314/thats-what-i-like/) - cheese and onion sandwiches and derby chinaware fiddles and jigs, and wogie my dog and aunty vi having a swear taking my dad for a pint or two on a sunday morning stroll licorice pipes and baggy suits, glen hoddle scoring a goal catching a pike and riding me bike, old wooden wheels and a
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1313/tweets-for-today-6-2/) - 19:04 trying to remember what happened in january, for a review of the year # 01:16 have remembered what went on in 2007, it wasn't very funny #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1312/tweets-for-today-5-2/) - 13:35 trying out google reader's 'friends' fubnction #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2007-12-15](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/130/links-for-2007-12-15/) - The Point Have you ever had a issue you wanted to stand up for but figured it would not go anywhere without the support of a larger group of people? Well, now you can test the waters of any issue or problem with the help of The Point. Inspired by the book The Tippi (tags:
- [links for 2007-12-12](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/129/links-for-2007-12-12/) - The Next Social Network: WordPress - GigaOM Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He's started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to "build a social net (tags: blogging links media online socialnetworking wordpress)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1311/tweets-for-today-4-2/) - 18:26 Black Country voting has closed, tidying up apps and badges - with fingers crossed. #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1310/tweets-for-today-3-2/) - 12:57 lol captioning is addictive #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2007-12-09](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/127/links-for-2007-12-09/) - Channel 4 launches tiny widget/mashup competition Create a widget or mashup from two RSS feeds, the winner gets £1500 and two runners up get £250 each. That’s it. (tags: Media 2.0 Geekery)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1309/tweets-for-today-2-2/) - 16:06 @podnosh - sell it you'll make a fortune... #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2007-12-07](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/126/links-for-2007-12-07/) - Public Ap Pages | Facebook Developers News Facebook Canvas ap Pages will be visible to search engines and non registered users. (tags: facebook api work)
- [Review: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Town Hall](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1308/review-the-ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain-at-the-town-hall/) - Who ever heard of a concert starting at the time stated on the ticket?Originally uploaded by bounder Who ever heard of a concert starting at the time stated on the ticket? This is the view of the uke guys doing Splodgenessabounds' 'Two Pint of Lager' - it's the last song in the first half and
- [links for 2007-12-05](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/125/links-for-2007-12-05/) - The Sun's broken RSS still affecting Chipwrapper one month on The Sun don't seem to care about fixing broken RSS feeds - relative URLs anyone? (tags: work RSS newspapers)
- [links for 2007-11-28](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/124/links-for-2007-11-28/) - How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid (tags: article facebook internet socialnetworking)
- [links for 2007-11-25](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/121/links-for-2007-11-25/) - iPhoneSlide - Mobile photo hosting for iPhone users iPhoneSlide is a free service for instantly uploading/blogging about your iPhone photos to Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and more. (tags: blog facebook flickr photos iphone)
- [Craig Johnson is angry](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1307/craig-johnson-is-angry/) - We should be too.
- [links for 2007-11-15](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/118/links-for-2007-11-15/) - Sun Lies and Internet Statistics "Figures released by internet monitors Alexa, reveal her site was only the 242,174th most viewed in the UK – around the same as specialist carp.com.That does sound pretty poor. If you don't know anything about the internet or the UK. " (tags: Music stats)
- [links for 2007-11-13](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/116/links-for-2007-11-13/) - BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Birmingham City | Sullivan wary of website takeover "i don't think that helps me cos I'm not a very likeable person really, I don't come across well" (tags: football website crowdsourcing)
- [links for 2007-11-06](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/115/links-for-2007-11-06/) - myFC.co.uk - closing in on purchase Remember those crazy chaps at myfootballclub.co.uk, who were going to band together for 35 quid each to buy an English football club? It looks like they’re about to pull it off, as they’re in due diligence for the purchase of an as yet unnamed club, a (tags: Football)
- [links for 2007-11-05](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/114/links-for-2007-11-05/) - Social class in social networking People are segmenting themselves in networked publics and this links to the ways in which they are segmented in everyday life. (tags: Geekery)
- [links for 2007-11-04](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/112/links-for-2007-11-04/) - The risks of self-publishing Last week, following deadly events on the Kurdish-Turkish border, a ‘spontaneous’ demonstration occurred in front of the American embassy in Brussels. Blogger and freelance journalist Mehmet Köksal was on the scene when some Grey Wolves (a jingoistic (tags: journalism)
- [links for 2007-11-02](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/111/links-for-2007-11-02/) - Tumblr API just what I've been looking for... (tags: api blog development web tumblr)
- [links for 2007-10-31](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/110/links-for-2007-10-31/) - Disqus - new way of integrating blogs and forums blog plug-in (Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType) that enhances your blog’s comments and integrates it with a fully moderated community forum - every post you make becomes a new thread in your own forum at yourforum.disqus.com. To keep it from not (tags: geek, blog, forum wordpress) Details
- [links for 2007-10-30](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/109/links-for-2007-10-30/) - Strange Attractor on the NUJ new media row "the internet may be posing a threat to the business model that support journalism, and it’s understandable that this causes anxiety. But misrepresenting the reality of that change won’t make it go away" (tags: web2.0 nuj journalism) Open (finds, minds, conversations)...: Citizen regulators: BBC Trust reaches out
- [mess of potage](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/108/mess-of-potage/) - bounder's soup. Soup.io seems to be tumblr with more friend aggregation facilities. All well and good - the bonus feature for those of us that have very many blogs is that you can of course be logged into your tumblr account and your soup account at the same time - leaving two quick bookmark-based microblogging
- [Just one more thing...](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1306/just-one-more-thing/) - Just One More Thing: Columbo Mark Billingham recalls the American TV detective series Columbo, which broke every rule, including identifying the villain in the opening scene, but remained hugely popular. Link good till 3/11.
- [Twenty questions](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1305/twenty-questions/) - I did a quick interview with the Bostin website, if you have five minutes spare and are intrigued by the concept of bjornborgbaggiesbaggies.net then it may be worth your time.
- [links for 2007-10-27](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/106/links-for-2007-10-27/) - Greenslade leaves NUJ because of new media debate NUJ's approach to online journalism forces Guardian blogger Roy Greenslade to quit (tags: journalism web)
- [Hot Manatee on Glass Action](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1304/hot-manatee-on-glass-action/) - Been laughing at this manatee for some time, but felt it needed a touch of synth-pop.
- [links for 2007-10-24](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/105/links-for-2007-10-24/) - Clumsy inclusion of Facebook groups in advertising If Facebook do want to become a platform that can be regularly used for offline marketing, they need to do a bit of work on their URL architecture. (tags: Facebook linking) og Feeds Have Garbage Subscribers Just Like Magazines So also do yourself another favor and read up
- [It really is a lottery, that life business](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1303/it-really-is-a-lottery-that-life-business/) - You may have read about four parts of the UK being up for £50M of National Lottery funding - the catch being that they have to compete again on a ITV televised debate. Doesn't that just seem wrong? We pay, or give the contact to, a large corporation in order for them to hire experts
- [Mighty Boosh Series 3 Transmission Date](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1302/mighty-boosh-series-3-transmission-date/) - Naboo and Bollo Originally uploaded by bounder It's almost definite that it will tx on BBC3 from Thu 15 Nov at 22.30 and then be repeated on the following Sunday. And it will have it's preview online the week before. Boosh News
- [links for 2007-10-19](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/104/links-for-2007-10-19/) - Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages Flickr is launching “Places Pages,” which are dedicated pages that provide users with specific information about places. (tags: geotagging flickr media photography photos tags web)
- [Vinyl countdown](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1301/vinyl-countdown/) - Vinyl countdown Originally uploaded by bounder
- [links for 2007-10-16](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/103/links-for-2007-10-16/) - Potatoes, Onions and Barbed Wire on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (tags: upyerbrum) bbc.co.uk free via The Cloud & Flash video comes to the site Slightly buried:"broadcaster has signed a deal with Adobe to provide Flash video for the whole of the BBC’s video services, including a streaming version of its iPlayer." (tags: media geekery flash
- [links for 2007-10-15](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/102/links-for-2007-10-15/) - Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair: Hooray for mainstream media a list of 9* 8 of the 10 journalists reported to have been flown to and from Moscow by Alisher Usmanov on a Gulfstream 550 private jet and put up at the five-star Kempinski Hotel: Your duty to by a newspaper? a failure by journalists to
- [Select the kittens](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1300/select-the-kittens/) - Microsoft have released a proper cat captcha programme (catcha?). Thanks to the now back, oh how you've been missed, D'log.
- [Camp New](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1299/camp-new/) - This is Sir Norman Foster's plan for FC Barcelona's stadium, the Nou Camp - a brilliant echo of Gaudi's Parc Güell, and it'll all be built around the current stadium. Not only that, it won't cause disruption to any of the team's fixtures - why can't we do architectural renewal like this? Image nicked from
- [links for 2007-10-11](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/101/links-for-2007-10-11/) - Journalism.co.uk :: Geotagging brings personalised online news to Archant Mix this in with attention data and news could be truly personalised. (tags: news geotagging geotag)
- [Something I spotted when queuing to buy a pepsi max and a copy of Private Eye in Tesco on New St today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1298/something-i-spotted-when-queuing-to-buy-a-pepsi-max-and-a-copy-of-private-eye-in-tesco-on-new-st-today/) - Doesn't it look like the fat toungued mockney is on the crapper on the front of in this book
- [links for 2007-10-10](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/100/links-for-2007-10-10/) - CleverClogs: Basics of Attention Profiling through APML APML for the non-geek (tags: apml work)
- [Heavy Trash at The Hare and Hounds](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1297/heavy-trash-at-the-hare-and-hounds/) - Weeeeeeellllll, I'd like to ask you ladiesungentlemun do you feeel allllright Cenyewrockunroll inthuhareundhoundz? Thankyewvurymuch.
- [links for 2007-10-08](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/98/links-for-2007-10-08/) - Green Party Sending out SPAM the Green Party want people to vote for them so they can run a country and be responsible for very important things like national security and your life. Well, I'm sorry that requires knowledge of rules and laws and an attention to detail WAY above that c (tags: SPAM politics)
- [links for 2007-10-06](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/97/links-for-2007-10-06/) - Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules "87% of the usage goes to only 84 applications." This isn't the long tail in action - you've got to be in the top if you want to make money. Unless you rolled hundreds of almost identical, but niche apps. (tags: facebook stats web2.0
- [links for 2007-10-03](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/95/links-for-2007-10-03/) - WordPress Mobile Plugin | Andy Moore preparation for the iPhone (tags: blog wordpress mobile plugin phone) IE and “Operation Aborted” » Clientside Random and annoying IE bug, some Wordpress plugins throw this error - caution advised. (tags: IE, javascript wordpress bug)
- [Thikipedia](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1296/thikipedia/) - Ned Sherrin and Ronnie Hazelhurst in a day, bad time for eighties nostalgists. The Guardian reported that Ronnie wrote "Reach for the Stars" by S Club 7 (although I'm sure that it was a Cathy Dennis /Bloke from Mud composition). Wikipedia said he did at the time of the article, but it wouldn't have taken
- [links for 2007-10-01](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/94/links-for-2007-10-01/) - Alex Schultz: APIs: My First Cron Job with 1and1 hosting cron jobs on 1&1 (tags: cronjob geekery) WhatTheFont : MyFonts find out what that elusive font is (tags: design development fonts)
- [links for 2007-09-30](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/93/links-for-2007-09-30/) - YouTube and Checkout for the non-profit (tags: non-profit)
- [Mailbox - Bang and Olufsen](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1295/mailbox-bang-and-olufsen/) - Mailbox - Bang and Olufsen Originally uploaded by bounder I know they only seem to sell kit to professional footballers (a guy that worked there once told me that that month they'd only sold one system to Lee Hendrie) - but a big advert featuring Ken Bates?
- [links for 2007-09-26](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/91/links-for-2007-09-26/) - Try This - social answers With Try This users can ask a question like, "Where can I get good sushi in Arlington, Virginia?" and the community make suggestions. Users can comment on the item. The community can also vote on the items they like. Users can also search for items in the (tags: SocialMedia geekery
- [Gwen Stefani at the NIA](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1294/gwen-stefani-at-the-nia/) - Gwen Stefani (yes, I know, not my usual thing, a return of a longstanding agreement from the last time I dragged my other half to watch Belle & Sebastian or somesuch) is not averse to using the odd bit of popular culture - in the first half hour she's played songs that piggy-back on Topol
- [links for 2007-09-25](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/89/links-for-2007-09-25/) - Abusing Goodwill On how companies can hover up your online creativity, for nothing. (tags: Media2.0 Geekery blogs flickr)
- [A fucking big duck](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1293/a-fucking-big-duck/) - An f'in big duck Originally uploaded by bounder One of my favourite showbiz anecdotes refers to the wondrous Vic and Bob becoming personas-non-grata on the charity fundrasing circuit after a routine about "a fucking big duck" at a Stephen Fry organised AIDS do. It wasn't the routine, in which they made continued references to an
- [Google Maps with no map](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1292/google-maps-with-no-map/) - James & Joe, a website that uses Google Maps, but not as a map. Overlays as navigation, very cool.
- [links for 2007-09-22](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/84/links-for-2007-09-22/) - Post less to be read more No matter how good your material is, too much of it can cause feed-overwhelm and unsubscribes. Based on input from close to a dozen top bloggers I’ve interviewed, it takes an average of three days for a new post to propagate well in the blogosphere. If (tags: Geekery blog)
- [links for 2007-09-21](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/83/links-for-2007-09-21/) - The HTML Coded Character Set & URL Escape Codes ! (tags: webdesign blogging escape html reference development)
- [Random cat in Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1291/random-cat-in-birmingham/) - It had to happen eventually. I posted a kitten to BiNS by mistake. I got rid, but if you get feeds... well that's why there was a bonus ginger cat in a box for you.
- [links for 2007-09-14](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/81/links-for-2007-09-14/) - Social Graph: Concepts and Issues (tags: article blog facebook socialnetworking socialgraph web2.0 visualization) Facebook as personal brand Not only does it connect people with other contacts, but it also, either intentionally or unintentionally, evolved into a powerful platform for aggregating all online activity to showcase a professionally wrapped package of expertise, personality, network (tags: Media
- [links for 2007-09-13](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/80/links-for-2007-09-13/) - The Daily Mash - FACEBOOK DISTRACTING WORKERS FROM UNDERPAID, SOUL-DESTROYING TEDIUM, SAYS CBI They are calling on the government to introduce legislation that will ban workers from thinking about the slightest hint of a possibility that life may not in fact be a relentlessly nauseating sea of shit. (tags: facebook CBI socialnetworking work) 72 Free
- [links for 2007-09-12](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/79/links-for-2007-09-12/) - idGettr - Find your Flickr ID handy if you're API-ing (tags: api flickr id)
- [Meerkat photographs were a hoax?](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1289/meerkat-photographs-were-a-hoax/) - Oh dear. The meerkat photograph hoax review - which UK newspapers admitted online to being duped? - currybetdotnet - 12 September, 2007
- [Ok I'm halucinating](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1288/ok-im-halucinating/) - Through lack of sleep (24 hours, sheesh) - but my morning cup of tea is making a noise. A sort or electronic bell ring, barely audible, which has now slowed down and sounds like a bell ringing at a deserted train station in a windswept American film. I'm going to drink it and hope it
- [links for 2007-09-11](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/76/links-for-2007-09-11/) - Zamzar - Free online file conversion "Convert anything to anything" it says... (tags: download media tool video convert free)
- [links for 2007-09-09](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/75/links-for-2007-09-09/) - Birmingham awakes on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (tags: upyerbrum)
- [Loldylan](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1287/loldylan/) - Bob Dylan invents lolcats You'll have to click, can't find where in the source the flashcode is hid. Site is incredibly flaky (and sending only worked on a PC in IE7) but it's still very cool.
- [Now I got worry](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1286/now-i-got-worry/) - New Heavy Trash album and a Blues Explosion rarities collection oh, Mr Spencer with this garage rock you are really spoiling us.
- [Pavarotti](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1285/pavarotti/) - A tribute that doesn't include Nessun Dorma in any way.
- [Polyphonic Spree at the Glee Club](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1284/polyphonic-spree-at-the-glee-club/) - EncoreOriginally uploaded by bounder The Polyphonic Spree are indie's worst nightmare, a matching 28-piece army-cult of pure exaltation. The bass player throws rock poses in front of the harpist, the brass section dive out of the crowd for a mosh, the Glee club even take out the seats and relax for once. I wonder if
- [links for 2007-09-04](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/74/links-for-2007-09-04/) - twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter - post RSS to twitter automatically Just trying this out, with Facebook status updates - as I often forget to tweet. (tags: blog feeds hack twitter blogging openid)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1283/tweets-for-today-8/) - 11:39 What do you do when your mum joins facebook? # Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [You know you're spending too much time on the interweb when...](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1282/you-know-youre-spending-too-much-time-on-the-interweb-when/) - You see this headline: Tube network crippled by strike and you don't think London, you think online flash-based video sharing.
- [Our survey says...](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1281/our-survey-says/) - If you've read my rantings on 'survey culture' on the BiNS blog, or heard me go on about it as part of the reason for Talk Like A Brummie Day, you might not be surprised to see me link to this article - which is about how a 'survey' for Veet (which is Imac -
- [links for 2007-09-01](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/70/links-for-2007-09-01/) - Freedom from bad soundtracks on YouTube The group which collects music royalties for publishers when songs are performed in the UK said yesterday it had licensed more than 10m pieces of music for use on YouTube, which was acquired by Google two years ago for $1.65bn. (tags: music video web2.0 youtube work)
- [links for 2007-08-31](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/69/links-for-2007-08-31/) - edublogs: Six points for organisations entering the Live Web you're reading lots of blogs and wanting to leave comments, do you feel you can do on behalf of your organisation? Most people would probably reply 'no'. This is not down to the potential evils of the tool - it's down the culture of the organisation,
- [links for 2007-08-30](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/68/links-for-2007-08-30/) - Odigo - turns blogs to podcasts from The Jeff Pulver Blog (tags: socialmedia accesability texttospeech work blog) The Right Width for Your Blog (tags: Geekery blog layout)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/67/tweets-for-today-7/) - 19:15 got new pumps from japan #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/66/tweets-for-today-6/) - 18:00 wondering if I can unlock my N73 or if eBay is the better bet # 19:04 eBay it is then. Never trust a mobile phone operator #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [links for 2007-08-27](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/65/links-for-2007-08-27/) - Facebook AppMaker, a new tool that the company claims will provide people with a dead simple way to create a new Facebook application. (tags: Geekery)
- [Invisibl social divide](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1279/invisibl-social-divide/) - If even the Wall St Journal gets locats, is internet culture over?
- [links for 2007-08-24](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/64/links-for-2007-08-24/) - Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers (tags: newspapers search work)
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/63/tweets-for-today-5/) - 19:37 gotta new camera - expect videos aplenty #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [You can't have it](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1278/you-cant-have-it/) - Where as I say "gowan then" to people who ask to use my Flickr pics, there's a certain type of people that seemingly don't want you to even see theirs. D_morton (who probably doesn't want the link ; ) ) always puts "You may not use, copy or print my photographic image files without my
- [links for 2007-08-23](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/62/links-for-2007-08-23/) - is Skype's architecture fatally flawed? (tags: Media2.0Workgroup Geekery skype)
- [Go on then, you can have it...](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1277/go-on-then-you-can-have-it/) - Naboo and Bollo decide that INSIDE the couch is funOriginally uploaded by bounder My mate just asked if I had any pictures of the cats with 'green eye' (like red-eye, but for cats) for a book on photoshop he's writing (not these, but one like them he does loads) and I sent him a couple.
- [links for 2007-08-21](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/58/links-for-2007-08-21/) - Steve Yelvington writes a well constructed piece on the evolution of local newspapers: why they never really were that local in the first place, and why they need to rethink that. (tags: Culture, newspapers) Blog Action Day On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind
- [links for 2007-08-19](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/56/links-for-2007-08-19/) - Newbies Guide to Twitter : [chrisbrogan.com] (tags: tutorial web2.0 twitter)
- [Gerkin' Fantastic](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1276/gerkin-fantastic/) - Not often I recommend people going to that London, but... may I draw your attention to the exceptionally rare opportunity to ascend to the top of the Gherkin and to stare down on London from the 40th floor. Only 500 Londoners will get the chance, and you need to be ready on the Open House
- [A Tribute To A King](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1275/a-tribute-to-a-king/) - It's not often you get to read a Marxist appreciation of Elvis: Elvis posed a dilemma for capitalism, but it was not an insurmountable one. Eventually it preserved him as a commodity but destroyed him as a musician. Often this is blamed on “Colonel” Parker. Parker was both incompetent and scared that Elvis might do
- [Oh noes!](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1274/oh-noes/) - Oh noes! Originally uploaded by bounder Remind me to back up my apps when I get back in.
- [Birmingham Beach](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/46/birmingham-beach/) - Birmingham Beach, originally uploaded by MartianMarvin. People can hate as much as they like, I still think that this is an interesting juxtaposition between technology, history and frivolity.
- [The Kitten Channel : All Kittens All The Time](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/11/the-kitten-channel-all-kittens-all-the-time/) - My new website. Lowest common denominator stuff I admit, but pictures of kittens just make you happy. If not try an otter with a bib. The Kitten Channel : All Kittens All The Time
- [My Off the Top Of My Head 50 albums](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1273/my-off-the-top-of-my-head-50-albums/) - Copying an idea here. I deliberately did this quickly, without recourse to my shelves iTunes, or any other electronic means - No particular order, except they are in the order I thought of them. I'm surprised by the absence of The Jam, The Who and any soul - I guess I either couldn't think of
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/50/tweets-for-today-4/) - 21:32 clever wordpress tip #Squidged out by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/41/tweets-for-today-3/) - 21:32 clever wordpress tip #Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/40/tweets-for-today-2/) - 20:25 What's inbetween blogging and social-networking? #Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
- [Tweets for Today](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/38/tweets-for-today/) - 11:40 Struggling with Monday morning, come on World, tell me something good #Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
- [Pie Day](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1272/pie-day/) - Pork Pie In A Bow Tie : originally uploaded by bounder. today is Pie Day.
- [My A - Z](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1271/my-a-z/) - JB Birmingham Street Atlas : Originally uploaded by bounder. See it in all it's glory here I've always thought that roads, like music, crystallize memories. I can't listen to Oasis' 'stop crying your heart out' without shedding a tear, purely because it was used in the closing credits after England got knocked out of a
- [snow falls in birmingham, residents go mad](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/23/snow-falls-in-birmingham-residents-go-mad/) - including us - we were up early to video our cats first experience of the white stuff:
- [NME Indie Rock Tour at the Academy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1270/nme-indie-rock-tour-at-the-academy/) - quick two-word reviews: Mumm-Ra: Thunder cats *** The Horrors: Crap Dammed * The View: Short Cast ** The Automatic: Windmilling Cowbell ****
- [oli](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1269/oli/) - oli, originally uploaded by bounder.
- [Otter stencil in our back yard](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/13/otter-stencil-in-our-back-yard/) - .flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Otter stencil in our back yard, originally uploaded by bounder. banksy might have taken disneyland, but he hasn't got to the wall of our outside toilet yet - we have. it's the logo of the otter
- [kitten avalanche!](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/12/kitten-avalanche/) - Naboo and Bollo, originally uploaded by catnipmusic. we've got two little kittens, it's very scary having to look after tiny creatures. so much i've been setting up a webcam to watch them when i'm out at work - that's pretty sad.
- [Eamonn Walker - from sickness to ER](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1268/eamonn-walker-from-sickness-to-er/) - Eamonn Walker bit bizarre this, i don't normally watch ER - in fact i've only ever watched the very early on with a guest appearance by Ewan McGreggor - i left the telly on Channel 4 after Big Brother tonight to be greeted by a face i thought I new. and damn right if african
- [Indoor Kite Flying](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/9/indoor-kite-flying/) - .flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Indoor Kite Flying, originally uploaded by catnipmusic. After some three or four different attempts - modeling ballons are too heavy and the rude shapped ones don't have enough pull for tissue paper(!) - we finally got
- [Cat face](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/8/cat-face/) - Cat face, originally uploaded by Tom (hmm a rosa tint). best graffito ever. you'll have to tilt your head to see it right. I've been waiting to get a good photo of this door (by the sanctuary in digbeth) for six months or more. they've beaten me to it, but it might still make next
- [KLF's gonna rock you](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/7/klfs-gonna-rock-you/) - with thanks to Pop Justice for the link how good were the KLF? fantastic that's how good. and Bill Drummond is still up to all sorts of fantastic things - check out the penkiln burn website.
- [slam](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/4/slam/) - Rules of Slam Equipment: Football. can be anything from a 10p rubber ball to a proper caser - which will get knackered - best is a fly-away plastic ball, red is best. Wall. Game: Take turns to kick the ball against the wall - if you miss, you've lost. Think there's a supremely addictive computer

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- [More about me](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/about-me/) - Voted the '14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands' in 2008. Subsequently not placed. Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama to be performed on Twitter. Back in 2008 he persuaded a cast including MP Tom Watson to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto: a full length piece of theatre
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- [Dave Gorman](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/dave-gorman/)
- [demo](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/demo/)
- [diary](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/diary/)
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- [dog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/dog/)
- [download](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/download/)
- [Dr Who](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/dr-who/)
- [duff beer](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/duff-beer/)
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- [eat](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/eat/)
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- [grammar school](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/grammar-school/)
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- [iphone 2.0](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/iphone-20/)
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- [kevin toms](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/kevin-toms/)
- [Kevin-Prince Boateng](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/kevin-prince-boateng/)
- [keyboard cat](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/keyboard-cat/)
- [kinematic typography](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/kinematic-typography/)
- [klf](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/klf/)
- [lamasoft](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/lamasoft/)
- [Leaning Tower of Pisa](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/leaning-tower-of-pisa/)
- [lego](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/lego/)
- [letter](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/letter/)
- [lift](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/lift/)
- [limmy](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/limmy/)
- [link](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/link/)
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- [lush](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/lush/)
- [luvvie](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/luvvie/)
- [madness](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/madness/)
- [manics](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/manics/)
- [Map of Birmingham](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/map-of-birmingham/)
- [maradonna](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/maradonna/)
- [mario](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mario/)
- [Mario Cacciottolo](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mario-cacciottolo/)
- [Mark Ronson](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mark-ronson/)
- [marklawson](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/marklawson/)
- [marksteel](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/marksteel/)
- [marmite](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/marmite/)
- [Marx](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/marx/)
- [matt mcginn](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/matt-mcginn/)
- [me](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/me/)
- [meat](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/meat/)
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- [Melchester](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/melchester/)
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- [Michael Grimes](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/michael-grimes/)
- [Micheal Gove](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/micheal-gove/)
- [Mighty Boosh](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mighty-boosh/)
- [minersstrike](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/minersstrike/)
- [mirror](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mirror/)
- [mither](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mither/)
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- [MJ Hibbett](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mj-hibbett/)
- [mod](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mod/)
- [Moldova](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/moldova/)
- [momus](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/momus/)
- [monkeys](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/monkeys/)
- [monty python](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/monty-python/)
- [MP](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mp/)
- [mp3](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mp3/)
- [mug](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/mug/)
- [Murakami](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/murakami/)
- [myprojects](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/myprojects/)
- [n'er-do-well](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/ner-do-well/)
- [nation](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/nation/)
- [New York](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/new-york/)
- [new yourk times](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/new-yourk-times/)
- [New Zealand](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/new-zealand/)
- [newspaper blog](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/newspaper-blog/)
- [next door](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/next-door/)
- [nightclub toilet list rant](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/nightclub-toilet-list-rant/)
- [ninja](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/ninja/)
- [nintendo](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/nintendo/)
- [nintendo ds](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/nintendo-ds/)
- [nipple](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/nipple/)
- [NO TO GAM£ 39](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/no-to-gam-39/)
- [Nombrilisme](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/nombrilisme/)
- [nostalgia](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/nostalgia/)
- [o2](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/o2/)
- [odd](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/odd/)
- [open street map](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/open-street-map/)
- [origami](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/origami/)
- [outsized](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/outsized/)
- [packaging](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/packaging/)
- [panda](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/panda/)
- [panto](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/panto/)
- [paper](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/paper/)
- [papercraft](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/papercraft/)
- [parks](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/parks/)
- [passive aggressive](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/passive-aggressive/)
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- [pele](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pele/)
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- [period](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/period/)
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- [pet food](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pet-food/)
- [pg tips](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pg-tips/)
- [pgtips](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pgtips/)
- [photo](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/photo/)
- [photo story](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/photo-story/)
- [photos](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/photos/)
- [picture](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/picture/)
- [pier](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pier/)
- [pikachu](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pikachu/)
- [pirate](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pirate/)
- [Pisa](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pisa/)
- [platitude](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/platitude/)
- [play](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/play/)
- [Play him off keyboard cat](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/play-him-off-keyboard-cat/)
- [plush](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/plush/)
- [podcast](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/podcast/)
- [pokemon](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pokemon/)
- [ponce](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/ponce/)
- [Pontins](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pontins/)
- [Portsmouth](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/portsmouth/)
- [post](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/post/)
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- [propose](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/propose/)
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- [pub](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/pub/)
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- [quiz](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/quiz/)
- [quiz geek computer](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/quiz-geek-computer/)
- [Radio 4](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/radio-4/)
- [rake](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/rake/)
- [ramblings](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/ramblings/)
- [random](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/random/)
- [rant](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/rant/)
- [Reading Festival](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/reading-festival/)
- [reality tv](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/reality-tv/)
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- [sticker](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/sticker/)
- [stupid](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/stupid/)
- [suicide](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/suicide/)
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- [sweary news](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/sweary-news/)
- [Swine Flu](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/swine-flu/)
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- [t-shirt](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/t-shirt/)
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- [the big paws](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/the-big-paws/)
- [The International](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/the-international/)
- [the jam](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/the-jam/)
- [The King](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/the-king/)
- [The Last Shadow Puppets](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/the-last-shadow-puppets/)
- [the man](http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/tag/the-man/)
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