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What ‘culture’ do you do?

Brum is, as you’ll no doubt be aware, is bidding to be UK City of Culture 2013. The final bid has to be in in May and getting a full picture of what culture is for Birmingham is and important part of it. We’ve already had Cliff Richard and heavy metal ballet suggested — but what do people actually get up to? One idea to capture that is to let everyone contribute to a one day celebration of all Birmingham’s cultural activity. For 24 hours from midday on Friday 23rd April to midday on Saturday 24th anyone can blog anything cultural they’re doing on the bid website (it’ll be at http://birminghamculture.org/blog) — you contribute via email. Anything sent to blog@birminghamculture.org will make the site — pictures video or audio included. I think this is the opportunity to show all that stuff that’s going on that doesn’t usually get publicity — culture is a pretty wide thing; are you watching football and singing? In a book club, out doing some parkour? All three at the same time? From the grottiest punk gig to the, er, soppiest punk gig, it’d be good if someone was there and recording it in some...

Marc Reeves of The Birmingham Post spends a couple of hours talking shop, blogging and council newspapers with Michael Grimes on Sunday Local — the weekly local news show on Rhubarb Radio: It’s intelligent, honest and unafraid — something of media at its best — is it only volunteer-led internet media that has the space and motivation for this?

Please help us, and the Birmingham Music Archive build up a “music map” of Birmingham. We’re looking to map anything; bands, singers, musicians, promoters, managers, venues, record shops, music shops, hangouts, anything that has a “place” and that place in in Brum (or nearby). There are lots of reasons for doing it, mainly that it’s great to have a record of such stuff — we could use it as the basis of research, art, or displays or, well tons of stuff. But there’s something special I want to do with it (’tis a secret) , and I want to be able to do it before the end of the month. June is, as we’ve been going on about, Birmingham Music Month — and it would be great to have a load of this done come July. So, we’ve created a Google map, and started to add stuff to it — and we’d like you to help as much as you can. View Birmingham Music Map in a larger map How to add stuff to the map:

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! The Mayor has a blog after all, it seems. Cllr Michael Wilkes has been blogging sporadically for almost a year. He’s posted a few bits since he became mayor, and let this little tit-bit slip: “I also propose to continue the use of my personal blog to highlight aspects of my civic role for the City of Birmingham. Clearly, once the Lord Mayor’s official blog is up and running on the City Council’s website, I will maintain that, and not this personal blog.” I wonder when that blog will be. Cllr, we’re here to offer you advice should you need it — see you at a Brum Bloggers meet soon? Hat tip, unbelivably, to Forward.

The history of BiNS

Sort of. At WxWM2 (a gathering of Brum interweb interested types) I did a brief talk about how I came to start BiNS — it was improvised and I wandered wildly off topic. Thanks to the wonderful guys at Rhubarb Radio (where I also do the Saturday breakfast show, plug plug) it’s now available as audio. Listen to download it if you like. There are also all of the other talks too, not fair of me to pick one out — you will probably enjoy them all.

Save the Brum Hinternet « Paradise Forum

The hinternet is the old, hard to find, unconnected interweb — it's stuff that's starting to disappear (Geocities is closing, people just forget to keep stuff up). Can we find a way to keep these old Brum sites alive?

A packed Big Paws show off of Rhubarb Radio, with special guest Harry Palmer, a visit from Gavin Wray and his northern soul experience and a running visit from Dave Harte (sponsor him here):

Brum news on Twitter

onBirmingham isTwitter generated breaking news about Birmingham. It works by using a network of “newsmakers” who can use the onBirmingham Twitter account to distribute local news as soon as they hear about it — they’ll likely be first on the scene and first with the news. Follow @onBirmingham on Twitter for news. Want to be a newsmaker? Follow @onBirmingham for news and then send us an @ message us if you want to be a newsmaker. I’m a newsmaker – how do I send news? Once @onBirmingham is following you any direct message that you tweet to is will be distributed as news. Direct message format: d onBirmingham message

Have been remiss posting this, but here’s the listen again link to this week’s Big Paws in which the banal mundanity of existence is contemplated, and there’s an awful joke about Stephen Hawkins. News of this week’s show, hosted by a special guest.

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Posts Tagged ‘ internet ’

What ‘culture’ do you do?

Forward with the Post

Brum Music Map

Mayor Blog

The history of BiNS

Save the Brum Hinternet « Paradise Forum

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Brum news on Twitter

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@onBirmingham – Breaking Brum News on Twitter