A number of you have been contacting me over this appearing on Google: In short, nothing to worry about, it’s all in hand, just waiting for Google to process the site before removing the warning. In long, we were running WordPress 2.2 which was vulnerable to hacking and someone hacked it. Nothing major, just a … [Read more…]
Brum Guide – it’s wiki’d Jon Bounds has started at wiki for Birmingham with some rather neat mapping involved. Like Wikipedia only different. And about Brum. Get adding stuff. (tags: wiki internet birmingham jonbounds) Catherine Bray’s Weblog Another journalist with a blog, this time from the 4Talent stable. She’s finding her feet so go say … [Read more…]
Last Wednesday I went to the imaginatively titled Local shorts Film Club, which I previously talked about here. I was pleasantly surprised to find a large turnout (a quick head count of around 80) maybe its because of by passion for social media and indoctrination into the cult of blogging that made me presume that … [Read more…]
7inch Cinema have a new website! And it’s very bloggy by the looks of things with RSS and everything. Worth checking out the other sections too as they’ve crammed it full of some really good writings.
Opportunities for media firms at Channel 4’s digital hub – Birmingham Post “The race is on for West Midland businesses to cash in on a new Channel 4 digital hub in Birmingham, after it was revealed the broadcaster will soon launch similar centres across the country.” (tags: channel4 screenwm birminghampost media digital) Birmingham: maligned and … [Read more…]
The next Pub Conversations conversation, where an artist and a guest of their choice discuss stuff in a pub, takes place on April 29th in the Lamp Tavern on Barford St. Melanie Carvalho and Ross Birrell are the speakers and there are usually questions from the audience. Free but spaces are limited so email selfservice … [Read more…]
Fused inform of an exhibition by local artist Gail Troth taking place at Three White Walls from April 24th – 3rd June. Is this truly a participatory Universe? Who makes up your world view are they the poets, writers, and philosophers who give us visions people gifted with some exceptional ability to sense and express … [Read more…]
Pete James, custodian of Birmingham Library’s legendary photographic archive, sends through info of From Canton to Guangzhou, part of Birmingham’s China Festival running through this year at BM&AG. This exhibition presents the work of two photographers who have made very different visual records of Birmingham’s Sister City in China. It contrasts the photographs of buildings … [Read more…]