The Getgood tours Digbeth with a video camera again, this time with local historian Richard Trengrouse Here’s a larger version. To view all the film clips together view this Youtube playlist. [link]

Russell T Davies needs to be widely applauded for many things. Top of the list is reviving the Saturday teatime TV slot. After years of inane gameshows, poorly conceived and executed revivals of variety shows and other instantly forgettable fare, the return of Dr Who proved a ratings hit for all the right reasons. Under the guidance [...]

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Iain doing his usual to Labour (labour spin etc) but pitching in heavily for David Davis AND Ken Clarke in David Cameron’s juddering reshuffle. I wonder what Dominic Grieve thinks of that? There is no doubt in my mind that ConservativeHome reflects Conservative Party grass roots. And they want David Davis back. Let us see [...]

JP: Why won’t David Cameron let you make these announcements publicly? GO: Well I…was there today, I’ve been involved in all these things… JP: Yeah, you were listening, he was speaking? GO: Well he is the leader of my party. JP: OK. There’s a problem isn’t there? Something has happened since you had your unfortunate difficulties on a yacht and since then you have [...]

Polly Toynbee, November 2006: If Cameron can climb on my caravan, anything is possible Polly Toynbee, January 2009: It might sound appealing, but this is populist poison

Please click the pic and vote for Created in Birmingham. There’s no registration required and it’ll take two seconds, tops. You can vote once a day. Someone has kindly nominated Created in Birmingham for the award of Best UK Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. It’s a public vote and we’re up against a few of the [...]

Announcing Twadio - The silent radio station that plays in your head Twadio is another in my series of micro-startup web ideas with Andrew Dubber and is a cute little idea: you follow a user on Twitter (the tweejay) and every few minutes you get a music track title and artist name in your twitter stream. Sounds [...] Related posts:Ten4 Magazine Feature - The Sound of Selling Ten4 Magazine have...

230 Miles of Love is an interesting project - a series of sat-nav triggered comedy sketches that are triggered as you drive along the M6. It’s been put out to publicise the charity Motivation. You can download the audio from the website and play it via a Garmin or TomTom satnav thingy or a GPS-enabled smartphone [...]

Deadline is a collaboration between Antonio Roberts and Jon Harington. In Antonio’s words: It’s a year-long project by myself and Jon Harrington about deadlines and waiting. It’s possible that we may post more information about it, but in time In Jon’s words: Deadline started on January 1st and since then one still image from Antonio’s film and one sentence [...]

GZEAN is a quartely zine produced by Moseley’s Gallery of Owls. It’s been created to: harbor all those crazy little snippets of ideas that we all have from time to time in the format of photos, drawing and collage (any 2D images) It costs £1 (plus postage) and you can get hold of one in person or [...]

Last year Modulate put a call out for a ‘Sonic Beatnik’ to undertake a three month International Artist Fellowship and, of 24 applicants, New Zealander Damian Frey was selected. In May 2008 Damian re visited us in Birmingham and we took the opportunity to talk to him about his experience of being here, and how the residency had impacted [...]

Spoof shadow cabinet web chat. Tickled me.

Guardian, 30th December 2008: Bring back Kenneth Clarke, party members tell Cameron as Tory reshuffle speculation grows Telegraph, 5th January 2009: David Cameron faces revolt over moves to bring back Ken Clarke

Ray Hassall has clearly been enjoying his Christmas break rather too much. He's been doodling on the back of envelopes and so Birmingham's new Olympic pool will not just include the 50m competition pond and diving pit. Oh no, that's nowhere near enough for our Ray. Now, the plan (don't forget that this will come in cheaper than the original £60 million ticket price) will include a rail station...

Bob Piper quite rightly pointed out the irony at the heart of the Tories' planned crackdown on town hall fat cats. Of the eight authorities listed in the Times, six of them are run by the Conservatives themselves: Suffolk County, Kensington & Chelsea, Bexley, Hertfordshire, Ealing and Surrey. The other two are Labour Newham and Lib Dem Kingston upon Hull. Birmingham's own Stephen Hughes gets...

Prezza on a you tube mash-up. I love it.