I’m it!

Bounder over at BINS has set up a game of ‘blog tig‘ with the following rules:

1. “Each player starts with an odd, but fun, fact about Brum and one odd, but fun, fact about their blog.
2. “At the end of your blog, you need to choose two people to get tagged and list their names.
3. “Tag your post “birminghamUK” and “brumblogtig” (the second one is a memetag).
4. “People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (with their version of the post) and post these rules (or link to them here). They can tie it in with their particular subject if they so wish.
5. “Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

“I think we’ll be able to watch the chain unfold over on technorati. I also think that it’s fun to tag people you think not enough people read - but that’s totally up to you.” (Thanks Paul Brashaw for this code)

My Birmingham fact

One of my favourite places in Birmingham is Moseley private park - hidden behind a tanning shop on the Alcester Road. It came about because the area around Highbury Hall was being redeveloped and a road was put right through the grounds. The lake and surrounding area was in danger of having the same treatment when a bunch of enterprising businessmen decided that that wasn’t a very good idea and bought the land. The great thing is that the legal structure they set up for the park means that it will be there ‘forever’ (well, perhaps as ‘forever as you can manage’). A nice idea… and there’s a bit of background on the park’s website history page.

My blog fact

My first encounter with blogging was in 2000/1 when I co-built a site called White Noise Central (now defunct) which was the first site I ever saw of mine published in print and was a little ahead of the word ‘blog’. It came out of the idea that two guys could travel across America and write and post photos on the web as they went. I started my personal blog as a place where I was intending on having a ‘design portfolio’ - pictures of the things I’d worked on over the years, with a bit of blurb about each one. That’s why you see posts in my archive that go back to 2003. In fact I only started blogging here in 2006, and I got bored very quickly of doing site screengrabs so that went out of the window…

So, my blog must be one of the few that doesn’t have a ‘Hello World’ type post…

Tig - you’re it!

Emily Quinton

OrangeJon

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