More proof that citizens journalism is finding it’s feet here in the West Midlands comes with the campaign to protect Black Patch Park in Sandwell. Simon Baddeley has written about the park for the independent website The Stirrer, keeps this wiki page up to date and now adds this to youtube:
January 29th, 2007 at 12:53 am (#)
I realise this is another first for me in the scope of narrowcasting. i still recall a million yearsw ago when we brought home the first computer that would sit on the kitchen table, and then in 1995 my first experience of using the world wide web. Blimey! What will it be like by 2016? S
May 15th, 2007 at 6:32 pm (#)
[...] For four years Simon Baddeley (the tall one) has campaigned with other Friends of Black Patch Park to protect this urban green space which is in Sandwell but sits just on the boundary with Birmingham. Sandwell Council had zoned some of the land for industrial development. The friends campaigned widely – including making their own media on youtube and using Flickr and Wikipedia to keep tabs on facts and images – until finally something moved. Earlier this year Councillor Bob Badham (cabinet member for Transport and Regeneration) said the council would review those plans, with the aim to preserve the park as a park. [...]