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Global city, local arse?

One of the most thought provoking blog posts on the new Birmingham Post site is one from Pete Ashton, on “our”, marketing phrase “global city with a local heart”. ”I’m not sure “local” is the right word for that though. “Healthy heart” maybe but the locality of the organ seems pretty irrelevant if its arteries are clogged with gunk.” It’s the sort of thing I’ve missed from Pete since his Brum Blog became his gig guide and well worth a read.

The new Birmingham Post site has just this second gone live – superficially it’s similar to the Mail’s recent makeover, but more blue, in more than one way (like the fact that the title bar says “local news, Birmingham City FC and more”). The Post team have really worked hard on making the site a real website, rather than just the paper on the web – so I’m expecting good things. They’ve even had the good sense to get a few local bloggers on the case. Yes, me – but the best first blog post award (of the few I’ve read yet) goes to… Nah they’ll get big-headed. Go check them all out.

Birminghamposteditor’s Weblog

Birmingham Post Editor’s Weblog is the slightly corrected title to what they’re calling “Birminghamposteditor’s Weblog”. Marc Reeves (Editor of the Birmingham Post) has started a blog – it’ all shiny, virginal and new – go post the first comment.

Birmingham Post Exhibition, originally uploaded by kate&drew. A set of pictures celebrating the Post’s 150th anniversary (or at least the anniversay of one of the papers that was eventually subsumed into it). It’s between Centenary Square and the Library

What do you think the Birmingham Post website should be like?

Easy answer, we know, is nothing like it is now. Ever since Trinity Mirror failed to sell off the Post and Mail – then decided to keep it – it’s been sort of inevitable that they would get new websites, the icBirmingham thing being part of the a larger chain of regional websites for other (now sold) titles. Post journo, and blogging convert Joanna Geary is on the team that’s going to think about how it should work – and she’s soliciting comments. So, it’d be rude not to…

The Great Bull in the Birmingham Post today!

Fans of BiNS artwork The Great Bull can get a printed copy in today’s Birmingham Post. In a colour double-page spread no less! Hopefully Bounder will be on Radio WM at around 6pm to talk about it too. Also, BiNS readers, can you spot the deliberate mistake in The Great Bull?

fame vs power

Jasper Carrott has been announced as the second person to join the Broad St Walk of Stars (icBirmingham) which we can only surmise makes him the second most famous Brummie (out of those willing to turn up the the paving ceremony) – he’s not in the Birmingham Post’s 50 most powerful people in Birmingham tho’. The top 50 list is very much a behind the scenes power-broking list – and you’d be forgiven for not knowing who some of them were. Some are quite random (does Ed Doolan really wield that much actual power?), some are friends of BiNs (Hi Mr Stirrer, Adrian Goldberg), but the problem with power (if this has any real connection to reality) is that it comes with great responsibility – lets hope they all know how to handle it. I’ve never liked the idea of an elected mayor – if we had one they’d surely leap to the top of the list – but with so few of the ‘powerful’ having an electorate to answer to, I’m coming round to the idea. Fascinating fact, did you know that the singer of the Guillemots was a brummie?

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I’ve been meaning to do a quick mention of the Birmingham Post’s blog for quite a time. While the different authors are obsessed with political gossip, sport, and oddly charity cricket matches between directors of Birmingham based companies, that seems about right for the Post. What was moving me to comment tho’, was the distinct lack of comments – was it about visibility, or moderation, or did the Post not get the ‘conversation’ part of blogging? What really irked me was the couple of times I felt moved to comment, with a point or a vain witticism, they never made it. I was beginging to think that they wouldn’t allow any comment that wasn’t explicit agreeing with them. That was until the borderline ironic post about irony (bear with us, intellectual the Birmingham Post) about the Broad St Walk of Fame really riled a reader. Line after line of abuse and a complete list of dates for Chas and Dave’s new tour. (SATO had actually first seen the story on upyerBrum, so the first bit of his comment is cut+pasted from there, which explains the odd word like EDIT appearing – you can’t rant like that twice…) Go and...

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