Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

This one’s really for Nicky over at Digbeth is Good, but as it could be useful for others it may as well go here. It explains how to use the Postalicious addon to add delicious bookmarks to your WordPress blog as single posts. It presumes a certain degree of experience with these tools. (Example of [...]

Oh lordy, this is brilliant; if you remember the mid-80s, that is. DustFilms has taken Aha!’s ‘Take On Me’ and changed the words to reflect what’s actually happening in the video. Very silly, and nicely done. Visit Take on Me: Literal Video Version

This is the first part of the Russian animation of Winnie The Pooh, from the 1960s. Apparently it was incredibly popular. It’s delightful, and very different in style to Shepard and Disney. Thanks to Leonardo Morgado for alerting me to this, after hearing a documentary about it on BBC Radio 4. Visit Vinni Puh: Winnie [...]

This collaboratively produced Google map shows where you can get wifi in Birmingham (UK), and whether or not it’s free. It will continue to evolve as more places are added. Hopefully it will grow much bigger as more places offer wifi. Anyone can add to the map (just follow the guidelines). Visit Wifi in Birmingham

Yes, at last I have a continuous feature on my blog! Sheep Dip is where I pick something juicy from the internet to share with you. Actually, it’s simply a feed of my Delicious bookmarks. But by harnessing the power of the Postalicious plugin for WordPress, each bookmark resides in its own post. And, to [...]

I finally got around to fixing the footer on this blog. It still looks a bit strange when the right column is longer than the left, but at least it doesn’t look completely broken.

“Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today [...]

These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009: Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are [...]

I love WordPress, but this evening I encountered a very odd bug. I don’t know whether it’s WordPress itself, my database, or a combination of the two. Basically, WordPress wouldn’t let me use the word ‘settle’. Instead it returned a 403 error. However, it does seem to be working now. Very odd. All I could [...]

Eventually I shall write a fuller post about this, and about my perception of how it’s being managed and communicated. In the meantime though I just want to help publicise the bus that’s doing the rounds in Birmingham. The council is seeking people’s opinions on its Big City Plan (a massive development plan for Birmingham), [...]