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Planning your journey online can be useful, save time and money if you do it right (and if then the busses actually turn up of course) so kudos to Network West Midlands for promoting that. In a bold marketing move, they’ve got for a poster campaign all over the city to promote planning your journey online without mentioning where one might do that. Small posters and large billboards: No web address, URL, app, QR code, nor mention of any of the three online journey planning services they promote at all. Brave egalitarian move, or oversight (all of the posters they’ve got that promoting offline things like bus-passes do have their web address on)? Bold, brave. Er, Centro?

It’s that time of next year again, when in a flagrant attempt to pay for all the incidental costs of B:iNS we unleash the Birmingham:It’s Not Shit Calendar on the suspecting public. It is, we’ve seen calendars in the shops. As always it features 13 shots of real Brum, with no spin and only a tiny few adjustments in Photoshop to try and make it look warm in the summer months (well did you try getting pictures of the sun this year?). While it isn’t all pretty, it at least isn’t 12 shots of canalside living. It includes, the beach under Spaghetti Junction, Mr Egg, The Pantomime Horse Grand National and you can see tiny versions of the inside pictures here. We’ve got two versions for sale from Lulu.com, a full height version at £12.99 (cover pictured) and a slightly cheaper folded version at £7.99. Both include all your Bank Holidays, as well as a few special B:iNS chosen dates and anniversaries. (There’s also one in our Cafepress shop might be cheaper with the dollar exchange rate being over 2-1, have a look see what you think. This one doesn’t have special dates, just normal holidays.) It’s a perfect...

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Andrew Dubber started a blog about whisky not so long ago, he then merged it into his personal blog, but he’s started to get offers of free stuff. Makes you think, or at least it makes me think. I turned down the offer of some advertising on BiNS this week, as it was the type that could make the site look as it it was recommending all sorts of weird stuff (loans probably) , neutrality comes at a price however. So thinking of ways to help pay for the site (google ads don’t pay much at all), I thought I’d throw it out to you lot. We’ll be doing the regular calendar this year, and I’ve found a UK supplier so that might get a few more sales – but would (for example) people be prepared to buy a BiNS book? Or is there anyone out there who’s got a product that we could heartily endorse, so we wouldn’t feel bad about advertising it? Or I might just start a blog about primark socks, or some other daily expense. ;)

Phalic logo award : Originally uploaded by bounder. Western Union Money Trasnfer have been trying to engage the local Sikhs with this poster i think – unfortunate coin-pile-character-turban interface tho. One for b3ta‘s phalic logo awards… birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk

I hate brmb, it’s nothing personal, I hate most commercial radio stations. However, someone in their marketing department has their finger on the pulse and have made the most of new trend for reverse graffiti. Spotted on Holloway Circus (affectionately known as the ‘Pagoda Island’ according to Five Live) this morning. God knows what V-day is – Valentines Day? some crappy competition which humiliates some poor listener or even puts their health at risk?

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