By stef
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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By stef
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 [...]
By stef
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, [...]
By stef
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Blog Action Day is happening for the second time this year, and is an attempt to bring together bloggers from around the world to discuss a shared issue.
This year’s theme is Poverty.
From this year’s ‘about’ page:
Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no [...]
By stef
Last night we ran the second in Creative Republic’s events around a creative response to the Big City Plan based around defining a “Fantasy brief for a Creative Director for Birmingham”.
Unfortunately, our planned speaker (the designer Michael Wolff) was ill and unable to attend. We were warned that might be the case the day before, [...]
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