14May/12

Are you in a happy place?

14 May 2012social media, social media work, twitter, web development worklocation, physchogeographyJon Bounds

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 itRead More…

16Dec/10

How Christmassy are you feeling?

16 December 2010my projects, portfolio, social media work, web development workchristmas, sentiment analysisJon Bounds

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.Read More…

29Sep/10

Is Birmingham Happy?

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

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

17Feb/09

The Big City Plan – Part 3 – How

17 February 2009blogging, Conferences & Talks, good practice, my projects, web development workbig city plan, birminghamuk, online consultation, wordpressJon Bounds

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 onlyRead More…

16Feb/09

The Big City Plan – Part 2 – Why

16 February 2009good practice, my projects, social media, web development workbig city plan, birminghamuk, council, online consultatioJon Bounds

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 throughRead More…

16Feb/09

The Big City Plan – Part 1 – Constructive Activism

16 February 2009blogging, good practice, my projects, portfolio, social media, social media work, web development work, writing workbig city plan, birminghamuk, online consultation, power of informationJon Bounds

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 MediaRead More…

31Jan/09

Freedom Town

31 January 2009my projects, social media work, web development workBirmingham UK, Freedom Town, Symphony HallJon Bounds

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 departmentRead More…

30Jan/09

The Bounder

30 January 2009my projects, web development worksandbox, thebounder, themedevelopment, WordPress MUJon Bounds

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 quicklyRead More…

12Nov/08

Cole – Raine Chartered Surveyors – WordPress theme and customisation

12 November 2008web development workdevelopment, wordpress themeJon Bounds

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 aRead More…

25Sep/08

New site for the Birmingham Conservation Trust

25 September 2008my projects, web development workbirminghamuk, cms, design, my projects, new site, wordpressJon Bounds

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 thatRead More…