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Greenwash
In the greenwash department, this carton of Sainsbury’s apple juice speaks for itself, really.
4am Project – Birmingham at 4am
Birmingham photographer Karen Strunks has been running a project for a while going round Birmingham at 4am. She recently had the idea to open it out to everybody, with the interesting twist of making it 4am on 4 April. So at the appointed hour a group of about 30 of us met at the Bull [...]
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- Why I refuse to participate in Remembrance Day
- For that price, I think I’d expect an engine with it
- *Now* I’m outraged over the News of the World
- I’m calling for a boycott – of boycotts
- WordPress – can it cope to power a whole council’s main website?
- Challenge and groupthink amongst the #localgovweb community…
- The Amazon Kindle as a platform for #localgov council service delivery?
- Gil Scott-Heron, 1949-2011, and the best concert I’ve ever been to
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- It’s March – that must mean it’s time for Yet Another War
- The Fukushima exclusion zones, as if they were applied to the West Midlands
- Debate on Political Reform, 4 February, 2011, Birmingham
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Read elsewhere
- Present on Earth: Dynabook, forty years on 2012/01/30
How Alan Kay predicted the future in 1972 by inventing it - a paper describing a portable, programmable device with a paper-quality screen which could be fun and educational at the same time. - The three types of email | Andrew Dubber 2012/01/18
Good advice on how to easily achieve and sustain the holy grail of #inboxzero - Parking in a dead end street | Public Strategist 2012/01/05
- Trimming the long tail – the danger of stripping back our websites « A Pretty Simple blog 2011/09/14
An article about the serious flaws in current emerging thinking about how council websites are structured and maintained. - Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development 2011/09/14
- Shabby PR from SOCITM « Simon Wakeman – public sector communications, marketing and public relations 2011/08/25
Simon Wakeman goes off on one about Socitm. Other people go off on even more in the comments. - Privacy and social media investigation: how I tracked down an entire family from one tweet | Joanna Geary 2011/08/02
Last Saturday I presented to students taking part in the brilliant Young Journalist Academy. The topic was “New Media” (not my title) and the primary aim was to get them up and running with their own blog and learn to publish online. However, I also knew it would be the perfect opportunity to gauge just how aware a group of bright, 16 and 17-year-olds were on the issues of web privacy and of just how easy it is to track down information about people online. - Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ (for dumbec, doumbec, doumbek, arabic tabla, darabuka, tombak, zarb ...) : Rhythms for Dumbek and Belly Dance 2011/08/01
- "Happy Birthday to You" copyright: Does the most infamous and resented copyright in musical history hold up to scrutiny? 2011/07/23
- Why user testing is important for local council websites 2011/07/23
My comments elsewhere
- Present on Earth: Dynabook, forty years on 2012/01/30
- The three types of email | Andrew Dubber 2012/01/18
- Parking in a dead end street | Public Strategist 2012/01/05
- Trimming the long tail – the danger of stripping back our websites « A Pretty Simple blog 2011/09/14
- Buying My Music In Bulk (USB Stick And Bandcamp) — Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 — the soundtrack to the day you wish you'd had 2011/07/21
- Danny Smith: Requiem for a piss stained short cut - Birmingham: It's Not Shit 2011/07/08
- LINKED SOCIAL: Eight steps of social media evolution in local government « The Dan Slee Blog 2011/05/03
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