Author: Nick Booth

Congratulations to the West Midlands (and others who dobbed in)

Launch of In the big picture

I’ve been waiting for a chance to use this pic taken at the launch of The Big Picture earlier this year.  It’s an Arts Council project being run by Audiences Central, with some big support from the BBC – TV, Radio, as well as sponsorship from Jessops and support from Travel West Midlands (You may have seen the simple ads as you stood waiting for the bus driver to let you off.)
Well a couple of days ago  this massive public arts project declared a record breaking 110,000 photos gathered for what should be the worlds biggest photo montage to be assembled in August.

Hat Tip Pete Millington and of course BiNS.

Has Birmingham's Artsfest gone anti-social on Twitter?

Artsfest twitter

Earlier today I accepted and cheerfully reciprocrated an approach from Artsfest on Twitter.  A few hours later Stef Lewandowski messaged me to ask If I thought it was right for this icon of the Birmingham arts scene to be using an invite bot to find friends on twitter

The short answer is no.  If that’s what Artsfest is doing then they’ve received some appaling advice.  The social web is about human connections – real networks of real relationships.  Using a software robot to make social connections is anti-social. It’s spam.

So like Chris Unitt I am gonna regretfully block Artsfest.  If a human being reads this blog post and can assure me that you’re not spamming please do so in the usual way – using the comments section below.