Culture

Preview tour of Birmingham’s ‘mac’ gets the thumbs up

  • April 21, 2010 at 6:48 pm
  • Categories: Arts,Birmingham,Culture

  • Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited round the new mac before its official opening next weekend. I was really very impressed. I hadn’t been particularly struck by the outside of the building, but now I’ve been inside I see the external fabric in a much more forgiving light. The interior is completely unrecognisable [...]

Digital users are volunteers as well as consumers

  • June 26, 2009 at 4:35 pm
  • Categories: Citizenship,Culture,Digital engagement,Social media,politics

  • In his Digital Britain Final Report, Lord Carter sets out his plan to keep Britain “at the forefront of the digital revolution”. But a revolution needs revolutionaries, who are driven by passion and not just economic incentive. Has this report overlooked the importance of people as volunteers, and the impact on their social contributions of [...]

Tweets from Digital Britain Report event in Birmingham

  • June 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm
  • Categories: Accessibility,Birmingham,Culture,Social media,politics

  • Last week I went to hear Lord Carter discuss his Digital Britain Final Report in Birmingham. I took a laptop and tweeted a little. As a crude record of what I wrote, what follows is my Twitter stream for that event. All I’ve done is take the html from Twitter Search and pasted it here [...]

The Pen Room

  • June 19, 2009 at 8:59 am
  • Categories: Birmingham,Culture,Sheep Dip

  • I’ve been meaning to go for ages, and on Saturday I finally went to Birmingham’s Pen Museum. Nikki Pugh steered me there: I’m not sure I’d have found it otherwise. It’s one of those incredible places that sit politely out of the limelight but are full of cool stuff: in this case, nibs, nibs, nibs, [...]

Birmingham Powerless Fifty

  • June 10, 2009 at 1:32 pm
  • Categories: Birmingham,Culture,politics

  • Every year the Birmingham Post polls the region for the top fifty most powerful people in Birmingham. So this year I’m doing the opposite (it’s probably been done before, but who cares). I’m looking for fifty people in Birmingham who are in the public eye but who seem to wield very little power. I’m doing [...]

Museums at Night 2009

  • May 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm
  • Categories: Culture,Events,Fun stuff

  • Museums at Night 2009 will bring together museums, galleries and heritage sites with a range of special evening events. I promised to plug this, so here goes. Over the weekend of 15, 16 and 17 May, museums across the country will be running a range of fun events in the evening. There will be ‘tours [...]

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