James Thornett The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC, my employer.
Posts Tagged ‘birmingham’
Birmingham Local Blogs Wire
Following my recent post on Will Perrin’s Talk About Local initiative, Jon Bounds has pushed ahead and created a Birmingham Local Blogs Wire by feeding a selection of blogs about Birmingham through Yahoo! Pipes. You can read all about the thinking behind the Birmingham Blog Wire here. Robin Hamman (@cybersoc) and I spent many an [...]
Christmas in Birmingham
Take 4 of the cheapest disposable cameras available in Sainsbury’s, which happens to be a model in the Sainsbury’s Basics range, cover the viewfinders with plenty of parcel tape, scratch the front of the lens on two of the cameras with a wire scrubber and on the other two use fluorescent highlighter pens to colour [...]
Moseley Folk Festival 2007
The second annual Moseley Folk Festival took place in Moseley Park this weekend. Lots of fun was had by all and the it remained dry until 7.30pm on Sunday evening which isn’t bad going considering the summer we’ve had. I found it particularly noteworthy for a number of, quite different, reasons. It was the first [...]
B29, step 1
It’s been a while since I’ve actually set up a new website and I’d forgotten how many things there are that need doing. However, www.birminghamb29.com is getting there, slowly!
Birmingham, B29
After living in the B29 postcode district of Birmingham for a cumulative total of around 8 years now I’ve always been struck by the amazing diversity in landscape, wealth and general surroundings. Recently an idea had been growing to get out there with my camera gear and spend a few months attempting to document this [...]
NeighbourhoodFixIt.com: Local problem solving
I’m breaking a golden rule now and moving away from the world of cider, football, music and photography to mention something slightly more worthy, but definitely just as interesting. Tom Loosemore has posted an introduction to new civic society site Neighbourhood Fix-It on his blog at Tomski.com. Enter a postcode (e.g. B5 7QQ) and track [...]
Concert on a stick
Marketing genius, a guaranteed money-earner, and a damn fine souvenir as well. Anyone who watched Barenaked Ladies‘ play live at Birmingham Academy last night was able to leave the gig with an mp3 copy of the entire set, including Boothby Graffoe‘s superb support slot. For a mere £20 I now have a delightfully branded 256Mb [...]
Satchel Blue on iTunes
Andy‘s already beaten me to the big announcement, but for those that don’t already know… Birmingham based band Satchel Blue (yes, that’s us!) now have a track available to download via iTunes, and theoretically other music download stores, for 79p. Download here. This technically means that if enough of you purchased this track we could [...]
Let it snow, let is snow (etc…)
From a sunny day at the beach to a snow covered winter landscape in just a few days – isn’t weather absolutely fascinating. It’s no wonder that we spend the majority of our time talking about it. It did also provide the opportunity for me to take yet another photo of Selly Park from (roughly) [...]
Ye Olde Record Shop
There I was (or rather, here I am) vacantly gazing around this enormous wealth of information called the web and trying to work out if there is anything of particular interest or importance going on around me that I need to pay attention to when, oh, shock horror, I read a post on recently launched [...]
