The person who actually coined the term Winterval has been in touch with Andy Mabbett: I am continually fascinated that the term Winterval, ever caused (and still does) such a furore. Quite simply, as Head of events at that time, we needed a vehicle which could cover the marketing of a whole season of events [...]
“Discover the future at The Midlands’ first digital festival. Celebrating the awe inspiring possibilities of the modern world, Hello Digital is an electrifying showcase of sights, sounds and dreams turning into reality”. Here is all the live comment and pictures, via Twitter and Flickr: Read the rest of the Hello Digital twitter stream on Twemes. [...]
I’d like to have been able to say how good the session Real opportunities in a virtual Birmingham, supposedly broadly about Second Life(tm), and specifically about Birmingham’s presence which has been developed there, was. I would, really. Unfortunately, not only was the internet connectivity – both wifi and 3G – in the conference room so [...]
…you know when it’s the run-up to the Christmas season – the first ‘Winterval’ story of the year has appeared. As we all know, the story’s claim about “The increasing external pressures to secularise Christmas and even the attempts to rebrand it as ‘Winterval’” is, of course, a plate of steaming prairie oysters: “The council [...]
“A city council has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism. Lawyers at the National Secular Society said the move by Birmingham City Council was ‘discriminatory’ and they would consider legal action. The rules also ban sites that promote witchcraft, the paranormal, sexual deviancy and criminal activity”. Not least because it would be [...]
Not so very far down the page on the report of today’s fire on Weston-super-Mare’s pier appears a plea from the local police: Police have placed a cordon around the pier and beach and advised people to avoid the area. Then at the bottom of the article appears another plea, from the BBC News website [...]
I’m not particularly concerned with this story as such, but rather with the BBC’s reporting of it. ‘Asked if she would like to stay in Pakistan or return to the UK, she said: “I would like to stay here in Pakistan forever. And my name isn’t Molly, it is Misbah.” Molly added: “I knew my [...]