- YouTube – ramdomness453′s LooTube Channel – I have RSS feeds that send me pretty much anything tagged with Digbeth, which can sometimes turn up some surprises. This is by far the best of them yet – James’ visit to the Digbeth Coach Station gents led me to his LooTube channel. ‘Well, I love toilets. The flushes, sounds, bowl design etc. Old ones with high cisterns giving a loud powerful flush would be the best in my opinion.’
- Best UK Blog – The 2008 Weblog Awards – You have until 5pm tomorrow afternoon to vote for Created in Birmingham, which you can do again if the last time you voted was more than 24 hours ago. Get to it.
- Marco On The Bass: John Mostyn: The Booking Agent Who Set 2-Tone On Its Way & The Manager Behind The Rise Of The Beat – Marco talks about local legend, ‘steady hand’ John Mostyn. And goes to show what a bloody brilliant bloke he is.
- way out west: Remade Fashion Fair - ‘KrisskrossdoneFreedom Clothing are organising a fair for remade and recycled clothes etc. on the 21st Feb at the Custard factory Birmingham… find out what’s going on in the world of recycled and ethical fashion, support small ethical business initiatives, buy cool stuff…’
- Joe Holyoak News Blog » Blog Archive » The Big City Plan – A response to the consultation document – Thank God, a voice of reason shouts out at the madness:
‘… in the desire to reinvent and reposition Birmingham in an international league table, it is necessary to understand and respect the history and the nature of the city. At a superficial (but still important) level, this means continuing to use historic place names, and not seeking to replace them by bland invented marketing terms such as “Eastside” and “Westside”. More fundamentally, it means appreciating what is characteristic in the nature of Birmingham’s urban fabric. The city’s publicity campaigns continually stress the big, the exceptional, the upmarket, the glamorous elements of the fabric. They have little to say about, and even dismiss, as does the Big City Plan in a number of instances, the ordinary and the utilitarian, as exemplified in inner city districts such as Digbeth, Highgate, Hockley, and Aston Newtown. These districts are not only economically important to Birmingham, but in their fine grain and their diversity, they are particular to Birmingham; they are a large part of what makes Birmingham special. The Big City Plan should respect and value them.’
