Last night was the third of the Birmingham Bloggers Meetups, and it was an even bigger affair than the last two probably put together.
April 1st comes early - “Nick Booth Gets Rickrolled”
About thirty of us turned up which made for a lovely crowd of people at Rooty’s in the Custard Factory. I was really pleased [...]
In short - Pete gets or kinda doesn’t get an award, Popworld’s Miquita drops the N-word into her speech, Pete invades the stage and we perhaps wish we’d gone to SXSW a day early instead.
Congrats to Pete for his win at last night’s Guardian MEGA awards.
It was a proper ‘gala’ event, complete with champagne boat [...]
Given away at the Big City Plan launch yesterday was a lovely little 5 minute video by Squint Opera. I like.
But nobody thought to put this online anywhere, so I asked Kelvin from Urban Initiatives for permission and I’ve ripped it from DVD using HandBrake and uploaded to Viddler for you…
(Yeah - okay, I’m in [...]
The Big City Plan launched yesterday and I was there to see (and hear) it happen.
I grabbed a 50 minute recording of all of the speeches, which I’m posting here for your listening pleasure (?).
Speaking:
Clive Dutton - Director of Planning, Birmingham City Council (0:00 - 3:37)
Mike Whitby - Leader of Birmingham City Council (3:37 - [...]
Today is the launch of The Big City Plan Charter, a document that puts down in writing some of the ‘big ideas’ that are under consideration for the future of Birmingham.
In advance of the launch they’ve put the website online and the Charter document in full for you to download.
The website itself is a triumph [...]
