After last weeks debacle with the unauthorised work on a dropped kerb outside Councillor Hussains house, the same contractors arrived again this morning and removed all the paving stones. A quick call to Highways and again I find out that they are s Continue Reading
I’m just back from speaking at the Polis Journalism Conference in London yesterday. I sat on a panel talking about DIY Media Democracy, which is one of the areas I specialise in and I strongly believe that more people need to engage with the d Continue Reading
So it is less than 24 hours until the polling booths open and I need to decide who I am going to vote for. In my ward I have 6 candidates each of who I would like to think should be canvassing me for my vote, they have all allegedly put themselves f Continue Reading
A week on Monday (16 May) sees the return of the Social Media Surgeries in North Staffordshire. We have decided to team up with Jamie from Stone & Phil from Stafford and run a combined SMS every month in either Stoke-on-Trent, Stone or Stafford. Continue Reading
Using Dropbox to create a website. I came across the DropPages site earlier today. From what I can see it has been running for about 2 weeks and is a project by web developer Dave McDermid. DropPages is a beta project that will allow you to create Continue Reading
When you are in Birmingham or more specifically Digbeth, there is only one place to eat, Eastside Cafe on Meriden St. The Award Winning cafe has the finest toast known to man, toast that would make the coldest steel hearted navvy weep, granary bread, thick cut with wait for it, butter, yes BUTTER.