http://del.icio.us/peteashton 1608256http://www.feedburner.com http://www.labouronline.org/wibs/167872/c3cfabac-91eb-7904-a974-88064e2257ee For the moment when Lolcalpolitics expands to beyond lolDeirdre. peteashton 2008-05-14T11:48:35Z lol lolcalpolitics loldeirdre http://slandr.net/ Another mobile Twitter client. Looks interesting. peteashton 2008-05-14T07:09:30Z backchannel mobile twitter http://www.norfolkopenlink.com/about_open_link/about.htm Norfolk Open Link is a £1.35 million two-year pilot project, operational from July 2006, to evaluate the impact mobile technology could have on economic development in Norfolk and the delivery of public sector services. peteashton 2008-05-14T02:26:52Z free municipal norfolk wifi wireless http://w2i.com/resource_center/the_w2i_report__weekly_newsletter/news/p/newsletterId_161/id_199 Estonia has completely free wifi across the whole country. peteashton 2008-05-14T02:25:42Z community free municipal wifi wireless http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5297884.stm "People access the wi-fi simply by agreeing to terms and conditions on a portal page that their web browser will point towards when a connection is made between a device and the network." peteashton 2008-05-14T02:24:34Z city free municipal wifi wireless http://www.supercooldesign.co.uk/index.php/likemind/ "A monthly coffee morning that's open to all and has no agenda other than simply to get people talking. The Birmingham event is held at Saint Caffe on St Paul's Square, on the third Friday of each month." peteashton 2008-05-12T22:01:52Z birminghamuk brumcoworking coffee coworking likemind meetup meetups http://www.multitweet.com/welcome.html Managing muliple Twitter accounts on one page. To investigate. peteashton 2008-05-12T15:21:33Z jaiku multitweet toinvestigate tools twitter http://www.thebigdebatebirmingham.co.uk/ 9th June at the ICC. Chum Jo is on the panel! peteashton 2008-05-12T11:03:29Z bigdebate digital events joannageary newgenerationarts http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00bfdkg.shtml?src=ip_potpw A gem found on the BBC iPlayer from their Parliament channel. 40 mins of Fry on what public service broadcasting is worth in the digital age. peteashton 2008-05-12T03:09:59Z bbc broadcasting internet media psb stephenfry tv http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/may/HQ_M08089_Chandra_Advisory.html "NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years." peteashton 2008-05-12T00:36:37Z astronomy nasa science space http://markmedia.blogs.com/markmedia/2008/05/digital-natives.html Mark is skeptical about the notion of "digital natives" and I think I agree. He says: "Its not an age thing. Its a curiosity thing. Which makes me a bit sad that so few journalists get it. Curiosity should be our stock-in-trade." peteashton 2008-05-11T19:43:43Z ash10 digitalnative journalism markmedia http://www.guinntiques.com/ireland/#1 He did a Heath Robinson-inspired Guinness calendar which is on display at the Old Mo pub in Balsall Heath. Can't find it online so I'll have to get some photos as it's lovely. peteashton 2008-05-11T19:30:33Z art calendar cartooning guinness pub http://cronkite.asu.edu/mcguireblog/?p=75 A very blunt keynote to journalists looking for a lifeline. peteashton 2008-05-11T19:28:38Z Internet Journalism Newspapers http://grovesmedia.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/blogging-in-our-newspapers/ Paul Groves asks some important and interesting questions about blogs in newspapers. I should address this myself since I blog for the paper in question. peteashton 2008-05-11T19:17:24Z birminghampost blogging journalism newspapers http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/ This might be enough to tempt me back into website design. Doubtful though. peteashton 2008-05-11T19:15:59Z Web css framework layout tools webdesign webdev wordpress http://tantek.pbwiki.com/CommunicationProtocols Intriguing guide to how to contact this guy. Better than a blunt list of addresses? I think so. peteashton 2008-05-11T19:14:48Z communication email howto inspiration tantek wiki http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/05/06/the-day-the-music-died Microsoft are "switching off" DRM-ed music bought from them. Diveinto Mark explains it in a letter to his father. peteashton 2008-05-11T19:13:37Z blogs digital drm eff microsoft mp3 music http://mungbean.org/blog/?p=467 Mashing up LastFM and Amazon data into a recommends RSS feed. peteashton 2008-05-11T19:11:41Z api ash10 data design lastfm music soundmus web http://www.plasticbag.org/files/native/ peteashton 2008-05-11T19:10:42Z ash10 data plasticbag presentation presentations tomcoates web web2.0 http://nbse.wordpress.com/ "providing social media skills to the community and teaching them how to harness these abilities for the good of the community." peteashton 2008-05-10T13:55:28Z KevinRapley birminghamuk northbirmingham socialenterprise socialmedia stuartparker http://andrewdubber.com/2008/05/09/98-perfect/#comment-510 If you use a Mac. Which I do. peteashton 2008-05-10T13:14:34Z apps dubber list mac software http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/05/08/phone-lie-detector-caught-160-birmingham-benefit-cheats-65233-20883901/ Another example of a headline that misrepresents the truth reported in the article. peteashton 2008-05-09T16:13:37Z birminghampost lies misleading subeditor http://remstate.com/projects/in-series/ "a plugin that lets you write series of posts in WordPress, without having to deal with the hassle of manually writing up tables of contents or “next” and “previous” links in each post." peteashton 2008-05-08T15:42:30Z blog blogging plugin plugins series wordpress http://www.scribd.com/ Like skitch for docs. VERY useful! peteashton 2008-05-08T14:41:05Z Tools documents pdf scribd sharing skitch http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=1qoLq6ai3BGv06982R2EvQ Woah. Pipes can mess with raw HTML and turn it into a feed. To investigate. peteashton 2008-05-08T14:26:04Z html pipes rss yahoopipes http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,951565,00.html The history of Stagger Lee / Stagolee peteashton 2008-05-08T14:12:35Z crime music mythology nickcave staggerlee stagolee http://mediasnackers.com/intro/ to be inspired by... peteashton 2008-05-08T13:19:47Z inspiration mediasnackers website http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom Hmmm...... peteashton 2008-05-08T11:23:16Z XML blog blogging blogs hatom microformats reference rss semanticweb syndication xhtml http://blogs.birminghampost.net/news/2008/05/who-owns-the-birmingham-posts.html Interesting questions from the editor. My comments to follow. peteashton 2008-05-07T15:55:00Z birminghampost blogging blogs journalism newspapers platforms http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/media-marketing-news/2008/05/05/international-interest-in-birmingham-digital-talent-65233-20864795/ Bradshaw and Geary pushing the agenda forward. peteashton 2008-05-07T15:53:51Z birmingham digital digitalcity industry internet talent http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/ Has a handy list of all the known Barcamps going on in the world. peteashton 2008-05-07T15:50:52Z barcamp coworking geek meeting social socialmedia unconference