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‘tinterweb invades the real world

‘tinterweb invades the real world

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...

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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down (its definition of downloading is almost a perfect definition of streaming, for example) and at worst woefully out of date and inaccurate.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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