I’ve just received this from Brian Pringle about this weekend’s – open streeet map event. Birmingham will be hosting this global festival of the collaborative openly licensed map of the world. It was back in Feb 2009 that we blogged about how Birmingham was the first city in England to be fully street mapped by …
Taking some #hyperlocal bloggers round the Library Of Birmingham #lob2013
This week we had a very enjoyable 90 minutes taking some fine local bloggers around the new Library of Birmingham – which opens next Tuesday. One, Catherine Munyarari who blogs at Hands on Handsworth, was – well, wowed: When a new public library starts someone thinking about where they might choose to study for a …
When it comes to Social Media think “Quality not Quantity”
I was at the Wolverhampton Social Media Surgery this week when a patient came for some help, who highlighted to me in a practical way somethings I’ve known and we’ve taught for a long time…. When it comes to Social Media it’s quality over quantity is what you’re looking for and being useful is what …
What – if anything – will replace the old politics in a digital city?
If you’re interested in this topic there a good read at the Community Architect blog from Baltimore. Read here. Can tactical urbanism, Internet journalism, direct action, “open data“, crowd-funding and social networking replace the comfortable business-as-usual model in which the various casts of the power elite scratch each others back within an established system of …