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Why Andy Burnham’s plans for censoring websites with film-style age certificates won’t work

30th
Dec. × ’08

Here’s an article I wrote for the Birmingham Post, published on page 5 today:
How would you feel if everything you tried to access on the internet were filtered for “unacceptable content” by government censors?
That’s a possibility Andy Burnham, secretary of state for culture has proposed this week.
He’s concerned about the fact that he can’t leave [...]

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50+ Birmingham Twitter users you need to follow

9th
Dec. × ’08

Twitter has really taken off in Birmingham (UK) this year. Here’s a list of some of the people who are using it and I think you should be connecting with you if you haven’t already!
Twitter is a micro-blogging service that answers the question “what are you doing now?”, but it’s also becoming a substitute for [...]

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What other brands can learn from the Courvoisier Future 500

8th
Dec. × ’08

As Helga said “shame they used models for the cover shot” (ahem) that’ll be me top left then…
Last week I was picked as one of the top 5 in the Future 500, which is sponsored by Courvoisier (the brandname-dropping becomes relevant), with a pretty amazing piece of print that went out with every copy of [...]

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Does Birmingham need a Creative Director?

28th
Nov. × ’08

I was in Design Week again this week. This time for an article on an idea that’s gaining some traction in Birmingham at the moment - should the city have a creative director?
Here’s the article:
‘It would have to be an eclectic, embracing, inclusive person for it to be a success. If it was a disciplinarian, [...]

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Web 2.0 or Blah 2.0?

30th
May. × ’08

With apologies to the Marcus Angermeier whose original is the famous:

What is Web 2.0?
I was asked this question this week by the organiser of an event that I was asked to talk about called “Power your Business with Web 2.0” (I can’t seem to direct link the event on the Creative Networks site?)
You know what [...]

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