Tag: David Cameron

David Cameron's Balsall Heath sleepover

Buried amongst all the material about Tony Blair standing down is something very close to us here in Balsall Heath. The Tory leader David Cameron has been writing on his own blog about spending two days in the neighbourhood.

It’s a place which has always made an impression on the man. He was here before, during and after his own leadership contest and teamed up with the Balsall Heath Forum and the Chamberlain Forum to give a speech (which you can listen to here on Podnosh) about the role of community in future Tory policy. How does he summarise what he is learning:

we’ve got a serious fight on our hands to build a responsible society that is the kind of society people admire and want to be part of. I know we can do it because most people in this country, like the people I’ve met here, are decent, hard-working and committed to their communities. We’ve got to much more to make sure that those are the values that win out.

It’s an act to be admired, not least because it has been built on a growing understanding of the neighbourhood and sufficient trust among the people who live here to be able to pull off so much time away from Westminster.

via thestirrer

podnosh 1.0 – webcameron 2.0

Time to apologise to David Cameron for querying his intentions in yesterday’s post about the use of brummie created icons on webcameron.org.uk.
The talent behind the visuals, Mark James of www.famfamfam.com has just e-mailed me to say:

Just to let you know that the webcameron designers have contacted me and I’m now happy with their usage. They had sent me a small donation towards my hosting (which I hadn’t spotted, they got lost amidst the emails), but they’re getting the credit sorted.

They made their donation late Saturday, but that didn’t excuse them from the terms of the licence. If you wish to mention that it has been sorted, that would be cool, but I don’t think a full apology is required.

Well that’s that put right, although as Mark suggests, good manners should always be timely.

David Cameron and Netiquette – mind your iManners please.

Max who works on the Podminions podcast has just alerted me to a problem with  the ever-so-polite leader of the opposition, David Cameron MP. It relates to the visuals on the newly launched webcameron.org.uk.

The site uses some very funky little icons, popped in their no doubt by the designers commissioned to make it so.  The trouble is those icons were made by a talented web designer based here in Brum and they’re being used in breach of his copyright.

Mark James makes them freely available on his site www.famfamfam.com under what is known as a Creative Commons license.  It is a widely used and respected way to protect what is written on the web and requires generosity and integrity from all those involved.

So the deal is simple:   you can use the natty icons free as long as you credit the source, and in web parlance this means linking to Mark’s website.

Anything else is simply rude.

Mark would like to see the credit – and told us “I expect people to occasionally overlook the issues of the Creative Commons, although I have to say I’m a little shocked that this escaped a political party”.

From my point of view I want to see local creativity given its due.  So Mr Cameron please remember your manners, sort out the site and then pop Mark a quick apology.

You can make it a video apology if you like.