Birmingham from the balcony one evening

I love living where I live - in the evenings we get fantastic views of the sky over Birmingham. Last night I came home from a meal with Pete Ashton and this is was the view from my balcony…

We Won a Webby Award!

Well what d’you know? The First Light Movies website that we built at 3form has only gone and won a Webby Award!
A great big thank you to everyone who worked on the project!
So I’ll be jetting out to New York for Internet Week in June to pick up one of these spirally babies:

And in a [...]

Let’s take the ideas in the Big City Plan and run with them

In the first of my video blog posts I was pretty amazed by one of the comments in particular that came back and it looks like we’ve spawned a project if I can find some people to collaborate with to make it happen (open invite).
So how about we apply some of that ‘Local Ideas Bank’ [...]

WordcampUK comes to Birmingham

(Image with thanks from Antoine Mallet for the freeware map image)
Great news for Birmingham’s ever-growing blogging and social media scene!
Fans of the Wordpress blogging platform have been springing up left right and centre of late, and the icing on the cake is that a first-of-its-kind-in-the-UK event is now being planned for this summer to connect [...]

A Webby Triple - One Nomination and Two Honorees

The announcement of this year’s tranch of Webby winners is getting ever closer, and this year I’m feeling pretty great about having a triple decker trifle of awards cake.
First Light Movies is in the final five Nominations for the Student Film category

This means it’s also in the running for the People’s Choice Award and if [...]