Comments on: Live Brum is Live

By: dunc

dunc — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:34:37 +0000

Cool, this looks good.

I posted a while ago about online listings sites for Brum and I’m keeping the post updated as I stumble across new ones.

It’s here – http://blog.theautumnstore.co.uk/archives/64 – if anyone wants to see the big list or suggest any sites I’ve missed.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:27:58 +0000

Thanks for the great write up Pete. The response so far has been terrific but, as you noted, this is just the beginning. Live Brum is under constant development and new features will be rolled out on an ongoing basis.

@Simon – thanks. Here’s to some friendly competition. Birmingham is big enough for all of us ;-)

@hawsie – All you need to do is add your search word to the end of this url: http://livebrum.co.uk/events/search?search=

i.e. http://livebrum.co.uk/events/search?search=metal

and add .rss if you want a feed.

i.e. http://livebrum.co.uk/events/search.rss?search=elephant

Hope that helps a bit. Maybe someone could create a bookmarklet?

By: hawesie

hawesie — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:25:30 +0000

Now I just need someone (or some time) to write a script that automatically creates livebrum search feeds for arbitrary charts/tags/groups on last.fm.

By: birmingham alive !

birmingham alive ! — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:49:50 +0000

a big welcome to the scene to josh & livebrum – it’s a big city & a big interweb out there, with there being plenty of room for all ! Ultimately no site is ever going to manage to cover everything, & no site is ever going to manage to get presentation of the results perfectly clear for every users’ preferences, so the greater diversity there is ultimately the better it is for all.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:24:33 +0000

Jon: I just corrected a massive typo which blanked out a chunk of this post so it might make more sense now.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:56:27 +0000

It’s the subscribe to search and widgets that does it right now, plus the promise of more to come. I see this as being what I’d call “real internet” though that’s not to diss everything else out there. woib is good but livebrum goes much further.

By: OrangeJon

OrangeJon — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:43:40 +0000

What’s On In Brum (www.woib.co.uk) gives you an RSS feed of what’s on this week, or you can subscribe to only one of the categories. What is it you wanted, to be able to filter those feeds by keyword or something?