Posts Tagged ‘ map ’

Mapping and planning for 11 11 11

Plan your day for the forthcoming 11 hours on the 11 bus spectacular. "An expedition of our scale needs careful planning. If you’re going to spend eleven hours on a bus, you need to know places to eat, places to get off to go to the toilet, places to charge your gadgets if you’re doing anything like filming or photography. So we need an editable collaboratable map. Luckily here’s one:"

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Keep ‘em peeled

Keep ‘em peeled

MyNeighbourhood.info is a site that maps crime. It’s not updated quickly enough for local vigilantes to slip into their tights and rush to the scene of the bicycle theft, but will let you see if more stuff gets nicked from the sheds in the next few roads than from your shed. And it shows where bus stops are. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! So tell us if you find out anything interesting.

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Brum Link 27th April

Found this on teh interwebs: D’log :: blogging since 2000 » What if the Situationists had been from Birmingham? – more Brum psychogeography, is it becoming a meme?

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BiNS is mostly by Jon Bounds a Birmingham based social web consultant, producer and writer., You can hire him to work on your social web campaigns or anything really—he's not fussy. Follow him on twitter or drop him an email.

There's also the odd bit of stuff from Danny Smith.

Feel free to send us anything you're interested in - or think we might be.

Is Brum Happy?

is Brum happy right now?

Birmingham's emotional wellbeing* on Thursday 17th of May 2012 10:01: 57.3 % (average)

Twice daily scores on Twitter.

*Every ten seconds this site reads the 1000 latest Tweets from within a 10 mile radius of the centre of Birmingham and rates the words against a database.

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