Category Archives: digital district

Spotlight on Digbeth

It’s March, and everyone here at DiG has a spring in their step. Why? I hear you ask! Well, Digbeth is Good has been recognised as a premier hyperlocal blog by none other than Birmingham City University! In a news … Continue reading

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Eastside Projects + Google Maps = New Viewing Experience

Thought I should start off this post with a bit of maths for the artistic folk out there! I fall into the camp, as I’m sure many of our readership do, of struggling to find time to visit Eastside Projects … Continue reading

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Network Music Festival

This weekend there’ll a whole bunch of eclectic electronic emissions to be heard (and seen) when the Network Music Festival plugs  it’s laptops in at various Digbeth venues. “Presenting a diverse programme of laptop performances, live coding, communicating home-made musical … Continue reading

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GOTO10 present !POP!: points of presence at Grand Union today

Last but not least of Grand Union’s Search Engine resident artist groups are GOTO10, who have been busy since 16th April developing !POP!: points of presence, which uses the Digbeth area and its Wi-Fi signals to create public interventions: Using Wi-Fi … Continue reading

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Link: Digbeth Social Media Surgery on Tue 12 Apr

Digbeth Social Media Surgery on Tue 12 Apr – An informal, drop-in surgery session for anyone in and around the Digbeth area looking for a chat and/or practical going about using the web to talk about the world around you … Continue reading

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Link: Digbeth Social Media Surgery on Thursday 10th March

Digbeth Social Media Surgery on Thursday 10th March – This month’s Digbeth social media surgery, ‘an informal, drop-in surgery session for anyone…looking for a chat and/or practical going about using the web to talk about the world around you and … Continue reading

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Some New Year’s resolutions: monthly Social Media Surgeries, Pub of the Month and dance classes at ACE dance and music

So Happy New Year Digbeth!  Hope you’re having a good start to 2011, despite the overflowing rubbish on your doorstep.  I myself am doing the inevitable and making my New Year’s resolutions.  Here they are: 1. Spread the love: monthly … Continue reading

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Getgood Link: Planning application for River Street/Fazeley Street

Planning application for River Street/Fazeley Street – Now this is interesting – a planning application for: Erection of a 14.8m MK3 dual user column with ground based cabinets and ancillary developments. In layman’s terms – a 50 foot mobile telephone … Continue reading

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Getgood Link: Multipack: Hack the Planet – Blog – Digital Birmingham

Multipack: Hack the Planet – Blog – Digital Birmingham – This Sat 20th Feb The Multipack, “a community of multi-talented Web professionals from across the West Midlands” are holding a hack day at One Black Bear, 191 Fazeley Street from … Continue reading

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