How about we design Birmingham with a WIKI?

Too many ideas, not enough time to write them all down before I’m on to the next thing. That’s my problem.
So the Masterplan event last week has really tweaked a few things in my head, and I’ve suddenly begun thinking about a large number of issues and ideas almost constantly since then.
To be honest I’ve [...]

Created in Birmingham on Facebook

I’ve been doing some research for a project that I’m working on at the moment that will rely on Facebook’s new system that allows people develop their own ‘applications’. You may have seen some of these - usually involving throwing pigs at eachother, trying to bite oneanother in some kind of lycanthropic fantasy involving ninjas [...]

Birmingham - the Big City Plan “City Team”

As I’ve said in a previous post, I’ve been invited to be part of Birmingham’s ‘City Team’ which is a group of people brought together to come up with big ideas for how Birmingham might change for the better over the coming ten to twenty-five years as part of a ‘masterplanning’ process being branded as [...]

Are my posts too long?

Am I being too verbose? Should I be posting shorter, snappier blog posts? Is the scrolling a pain or are you reading via RSS anyway? I’d love to know - I’m going to be posting a fair bit over the next year I think so it would be good to make this readable. Anyway, your [...]

Reporting back on Crowdsourcing

Thanks to everyone for their comments on the “Who wants to redesign Birmingham?” post. You really blew me away!
So - I’ve just got back from two days of discussions, speeches, presentations, private chats, video interviews, and so on.
I’m condensing everything into a blog post outlining what was said and decided, but before I do that [...]