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Don’t mention the goat

If you see Paul Henry around Brum – but you might mention that there are now five classic Crossroads episodes online to watch.

We’ve just had the first of the Council’s Birmingham Bulletin newsletter emails. It says the ‘mid month’ emails will “will focus on jobs and news and ‘end of month’ emails will include activities and events”. In reality it’s got a link to the jobs website and links to three news stories – not so much information, more a gentle reminder that you signed up. Hmmmmmm, let’s hope it gets a bit more content.

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The council’s website is slowly dragging itself into the 90s* with an email alert service. Pop along to birmingham.gov.uk/bulletin and sign up for alerts on events, jobs, press releases &c. *Actually, content-wise the site is top notch, navigation and the monolithic look should improve when the new Content Management System comes online later in the year.

sites of interest

The new website for the Town Hall & Symphony Hall launches this morning (developed by locals Made Media). It looks pretty stylish, but the real interest is under the hood where it is doing all sorts of funky stuff – tag clouds, personal home pages (no logging in required) and the best thing personalised RSS feeds. You should never miss a show again – and DEVO, Ray Davies and Andy Williams coming up at Symphony Hall all deserve a watching imho. Go have a play – it’s one of the best venue websites I’ve seen.Another job by Made Media is the Fierce Festival website which is cool and groovy – and should help you pick out the events you want to attend.

up yer Brum :: promoting the best of Birmingham on the web

We all love Birmingham, well at least we think that it’s not shit. And there’s a lot of great Brum stuff that you might never get to hear about – we can’t be everywhere (although we try) and some stuff might not be to our, very distinctive, tastes. What we need is some kind of way that everyone gets the chance to promote their favourite things about Brum… what we need is www.upyerbrum.com You can submit a web link to upyerbrum for any story which shows Birmingham’s true greatness. If others agree their votes will push the story to the top of the pile. Links could be a written story, a film, podcast or photo. You may have seen it on the BBC or a local newspaper site, on a blog or a school site, even written it yourself and put on the web. All that counts is that it shows something great about Birmingham. You can get voting and submitting, or just pop along to see what’s top of Brum’s pops. For those that get the whole web 2.0 thing it’s very much like digg – if you don’t give it a try. It’s fun!

get ont’internet, yer bard

Play Shakespeare is a new, brill, online Shakey resource. And as we know the sonnets only work right in a brummie accent

we’re big fans of Moseley and King’s Heath’s web 2.0 councillor Martin Mullaney’s talent for getting people involved with politics – his direct communication on the web, and in particular on youtube has got people interested in the council who you never would have believed would be. Even if it is only local taggers scribbling “Marin Mullaney sucks diek” (literacy campaign anyone?). It seems that Martin’s latest moves, to cut back laurel bushes in a park to combat ‘anti-social behaviour’ (as the Liberal’s newsletter put it) has upset a few more people. He’s been sent threatening letters, and a not nice ‘sign’ has appeared by his house. (Here it is reported quite sensationally on ‘the Stirrer CAMCORDER COUNCILLOR TARGETED OVER GAY ORGY VIDEO) I’m not sure this one’s totally related to the park, for the ‘sexually liberated’ a sign using the word paedophile seems a little Daily Mail, and the sign is written in marker-pen by someone who looks like they’ve had a little bit of practice. As Brum Blog says, the gay orgy-angle, while difficult, seems to be the most news-worthy. It also comes over a month after he first posted the video – but he’s posted others...

digital birmingham – all naughts, no ones

if you popped along to digital birmingham‘s marquee in Victoria Square (to celebrate their first birthday)- as did my other half’s parents – you may well have been impressed with ‘our new digital age’ and all it can do. Visitors got to play with their Wii (hem hem) and find out a little more about podcasting, amongst other techno-marvels. No doubt you’d have come home drenched in leaflets, for all sorts of services and about a wide variety of subjects. Good. I’m glad someone’s trying to open up a few minds. Not good, however, is one particular leaflet “The Guide to Broadband at Home” (published by digital birmingham themselves). It’s littered with advice that is at best dumbed down (its definition of downloading is almost a perfect definition of streaming, for example) and at worst woefully out of date and inaccurate. If you had no idea to start with, you’d be even more confused. Some examples: (from the glossary) “Netscape Navigator. Software. One of the most popular browsers for accessing the world wide web”. not since about 1990 it hasn’t been. There’s no mention of IE, let alone Firefox, if you were trying to access the web you’d be...

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