A couple of my friends, Stef and Dubber, set up this simple site a few months ago. It is much more interesting that it may at first appear. After all this looks like a selfish site. Tell us what you want, it says. But what makes Isowish social, worth joining and interesting is not making …
Seth Godin and Charlie Beckett get clever about journalism
Seth Godin reckons that “Newspapers took two cents of journalism and wrapped in ninety-eight cents of overhead and distraction,” and that “if we really care about the investigation and the analysis, we’ll pay for it one way or another. Maybe it’s a public good, a non profit function. Maybe a philanthropist puts up money for …
Some links I have seen:
Russell Davies on how we can apply on our online collborative skills to objects caled books: “for the creativity that’s running rampant online to emerge in physical forms in lots of places.” Very much chimes with how I’m interested in creating content online and then using neighbourhood resources – like school English or citizenship lessons …
Hurrah to everyone on this list. (have I missed you?)
I just want to list a few bloggers who’ve thrown their weight behind Created in Birmingham to win the UK blog category in these awards. CiB is run by a number of my friends and the impact they’ve had on Birmingham in the last year or so deserves recognition. When I last looked it was …