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What can you create with £1? I'll give the winner an extra £10

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Britain’s most eccentric newspaper Eccentric City has an energetic website and is driven in part by the creative energy of brummie Simon Walker – who told (link here) one of our most popular podcast stories.

Jules (elegantly standing in for Pete Ashton whilst he swans in Texas on our (Birmingham’s) behalf!) tells us that they are offering a unique opportunity:

Brum-based eccentric publishers The Eccentric City are giving away a whole pound every month to the person who can put it to the best use. What’s more, it’s totally free to enter and you could even see your idea in print. So get yer thinking caps on and you could be in the money! The deadline for this month’s proposals is 15th March.

Whoever gets chosen in the first month has my curiosity, admiration and anticipation – I’ll bung in an extra tenner (for use after the commission has been completed – I still want to find out what you can do with a quid. Perhaps that give me 1000% more art?)

Birmingham Blogger Pete Ashton Invades the Stage At the Guardian Media Awards

Anyone watching the Guardian Media Awards on Twitter may have had the chance of a real giggle at Pete Ashton and Stef Lewandowski’s growing frustration with the whole event.

It boiled over when Pete realised that the blogging awards (which included one for Created in Birmingham jointly with www.we-make-money-not-art.com and www.fromthefrontline.co.uk ) were not going to be recognised by giving the bloggers a chance to say something on stage. Dubber and I kept tabs with screen grabs from twitter whilst Jon Bounds quitely egged them on from afar.

If you want to watch exactly what he did you can find it here and here. An idea of what else they were saying can be found here and (brace yourself) here. Stef’s fsober summary of what went on (“Well Bloody Done Pete”) is here. Meanwhile the Guardian’s media monkey is dismissive here and Joanna Geary’s missive here. (She missed it despite being there! Free booze eh.)

All this kerfuffle Created in Birmingham.
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Wishful Linking Linking…

Mark McGuinness’ new project is a must for anyone working in the creative sector.

I’ll let him explain:

I’ve just created a new blog, Wishful Linking, to share links that may be useful and/or interesting to you as a creative professional. So if you’d like me to send you links to web pages about creativity, creative careers, managing creativity, intellectual property, creative industries, blogging, marketing, time management etc, then sign up for the RSS feed now.

If you don’t know him, he’s the guru when it comes to stuff like this. Get reading!

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All the above lifted wholesale from Antonio (who also knows a thing or two and yes I will respond, thanks for the tag.)