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Birmingham blogging bug pandemic

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

There is a bug going around Birmingham at the moment and I have caught it. It’s the blogging virus and it is spread through close contact, speech, hearing and touch. Yesterday evening was the second Birmingham bloggers meet up and it was a much more interesting dynamic than the last. Not to say the first was bad, I got a lot out of it and we discussed some very interesting topics but this time with around twenty people and with such a mixed bag of styles and genres of blogging it really had a zing about it. Without meaning to exclude anyone’s particular style of delivery, to give you a flavour there were political bloggers, press bloggers, social media analysts, Birmingham promoters, personal bloggers, rant specialists, podcasters, creative and design promoters and a cartoonist. Such a vibrant bunch of people, such diversity, and so much alcohol consumed. I must say I was feeling a little worse for wear this morning and from what I gather from some of the Twitter profiles going around, I was not alone. You know who you are!

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Tags: Birmingham Bloggers, birminghamuk, Nick Booth, upYerBrum
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A blog critique, new media junkies and the second Birmingham Bloggers Meet

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Last week proved interesting, firstly I took up an offer by Rhett Soveran of Epiblogger; Rhett was looking for willing bloggers to have their posts critiqued for upcoming posts on writing samples. I obliged his offer and my post ‘Social media transparency pitfalls for businesses’ was selected. Rhett put together ‘Blogging in the Microwave Age’ which is a very interesting read on fragmentation of posts and he showed some insights into my blog post structures that I didn’t even realise I was doing but are working well from what I hear. I leave bite sized chunks to reel in the readers and progressively lengthen the paragraphs as I reach the conclusion. This may be because I spend a lot of time reading usability expert, Jakob Nielsens’ approach to writing for the web. In my opinion he is the authority on the subject and his insights are ground breaking. I could write a whole post on this so I will leave it for a day when I wish to do exactly that. Other influences are probably from reporters and news reports where the inverted pyramid style is used; the article is explained in the first few lines and then more and more detail is added to the background of the story the further you read. Anyone dropping out half way down the page already has all the detail they need. I would like to thank Rhett for a glowing write up.

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Tags: birminghamuk, epiblogger, New Media Junie, Rhett Soveran, upYerBrum
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New Media Junkie

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Friend and colleague, Mark Steadman is a self confessed new media junkie. As a result he has brought together the website ‘New Media Junkie’ which is the home of collective thoughts, silly bollocks and generally interesting emails that are circulating at the time. Mark is a big fan of radio and ever since he was a young lad he has had high aspirations of becoming a radio disc jockey. Unfortunately he is condemned to a life of developing websites. We both must have done something hideously awful in a previous life to have not only been lumped together but to be thrown into such a frustrating sport as hunt the error message problem. Fix the bloody CSS issue in Safari or dream-crusher (Marks’ fond name for FireFox) is another we while away the hours together to. As a creative outlet, the brand spanking NMJ podcast has been born. What a little cracker it is, I have almost forgiven Mark for erasing material we had recorded for the first episode. Mark is however still chastising himself. Nonetheless, Mark has pulled together a cracker of an introduction of what he has to offer. I will however be featuring on the next episode and hopefully (if he will have me) make this a regular occurrence.

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Tags: BiNS, birminghamuk, jon bounds, Mark Steadman, New Media Junkie, upYerBrum
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