Green Works Recycled office furniture “there’s a discount for registered charities” courtesy cased.
“I never knowingly slept with a windows user”, from the soon to be released film MacHeads (hat tip Brian)
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Free is the Future (don’t tell Steve Jobs) (nod to Joanna)
Brummies offer you space to dial and rant.
Simon Heffer has updated the style guide for the Daily Telegraph including:
“Increasingly, as the distinction between publishing the newspaper and producing the website fades, we will stop using such words as ‘yesterday’ and ‘today’ in copy except when necessary to avoid confusion or to promote exclusive stories.”
“On the internet the priority for any headline is to inform search engines (and therefore readers) what the article is about. Its language should therefore be concrete, not abstract, and contain full names.”
Quite right. Please add “blog posts should make frequent reference to the evolution of the web and recently launched Apple devices to encourage people to comment and link” and also “please allow people to trackback without having to login in to your stupid site”.
Last Thursday I was at the launch of Creative Republic, a self organising body to strengthen the voice of the full breadth of the creative industries in Birmingham. It has been pulled together by some very fine people and they are asking you to lend them your support by signing up to their charter. As Stef lewandowki puts it “This is open to anyone who considers themselves as working in a creative or cultural role or organisation in Birmingham and the region, as well as people who are just interested in supporting what we are doing. We’re throwing the net wide – and over time we hope to be representative of as wide a group of people as possible.”
I’ve done so. Without our names behind them these names won’t be able to apply the influence our business deserves. Oh and don’t forget to link to the site, as these people have done, and so have …..