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A weblog updated daily by Chris Unitt.

(Previously run by Pete Ashton until he stepped down in April)

Joint-winner of the Media Guardian Innovation Award for Independent Blog 2008. "An entrepot for the cultural chaos of Birmingham"

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Ad Nauseam

The email described this blog as
a collection of adverts i see and photograph around birmingham and rants thereon
Oh, but it’s so much better than that.
Jonny knows an absurdity when he sees one, has a pretty incredible memory and, best of all, he’s funny. One to bookmark.

By Chris Unitt | Posted June 4, 2008 in Blogging | Tagged | Comments (0)

Birmingham creatives on Twitter

Twitter is a service that’s getting a fair bit of traction in Brum right now. Like most of these things it’s as useful as you find it to be so don’t feel you’re “doing it wrong” if you don’t get it, but I’m finding it rather invaluable so you might too.
It’s a combination of […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted April 1, 2008 in Birmingham, Blogging, Internet | Comments (7)

Brum Blogmeet 3

A meetup of people who blog in Birmingham took place last night. It went rather well I thought.

I’m keeping a roundup running on my blog, collective memory style, of links to stuff that’s come out of it including a video of the “unpanel” discussion. Many cool ideas and plans came out of the evening […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted April 1, 2008 in Blogging, Events | Comments (0)

NGA Blogs Begins

This year’s New Generation Arts festival, run by BCU across the city, is being blogged right on the main website, which is nice to see. Along with general news it’s split into four categories with a dedicated blogger for each one:
Creative Writing (Mike Morrison)
Music (Steve Shaw)
Interactive (Chris Unitt)
Visual Arts (Danny Smith)

By Pete Ashton | Posted March 31, 2008 in Art, Blogging, Events | Comments (1)

ArtsFest has a blog

Usually I just put these notices in the bulleted links but this one’s worth noting in it’s own post.
A few weeks back I had a chat over tea with Emily and Elise, the two, yes two, people who run the entirety of ArtsFest about how they might use blogs and that to help the […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted March 22, 2008 in Blogging, Events | Comments (0)

Guest blogged in Birmingham

Hello, my name is Julia Gilbert, your Created in Birmingham guest blogger. You may also know me from such social media tools as Flickr, del.icio.us, Tumblr and Twitter.
While Pete is taking a well-deserved trip across the pond to attend SXSWi on behalf of us Brummies. I’ll be taking up the reins, so that nothing urgent […]

By Julia Gilbert | Posted March 6, 2008 in Blogging, CiB news | Comments (6)

Birmingham Music Network

Whoa! It’s like looking in a mirror!

The Birmingham Music Network, managed by Mark Badger of Iron Man Records and others, has a new blog inspired by Created in Birmingham apparently, right down to using the same theme. Which kinda gives the game away on how I made this blog look like it does. But I’m […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted March 3, 2008 in Blogging, Music | Comments (9)

Bloggers Meetup next Monday

The second Birmingham Bloggers Meetup is on Monday, February 18 at the Dragon Inn on Hurst St (used to be an O’Neills). That link is the Facebook event page so for those not using the evil beastie here’s the skinny.
The meet starts at 7.00 and should last for a couple of hours at least. There’s […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted February 13, 2008 in Blogging, Events | Comments (3)

Emily Quinton

Photographer Emily Quinton has a new weblog which warms my heart. She also has a couple of Flickr accounts, one for business and one for pleasure. Here’s a couple of shots.

By Pete Ashton | Posted February 12, 2008 in Blogging, Photography | Comments (0)

New Media 4Cast the fifth

The fifth and final edition of Antonio Gould’s New Media 4Casts is online covering how engaging with the blogging community can help creative types reach new customers across the world. The core example, which I’d encourage you to check out, is Emily Malcom’s Black Apple blog. Subscribe on the site or listen here:

By Pete Ashton | Posted February 11, 2008 in Blogging, Crafts, Podcasting, Selling | Comments (0)

Logu and Tsz

Logulogu. Lawrence Roper of the Studio 4 gallery and the Outcrowd Collective, has a weblog for his side projects and the like. Here’s a nice picture currently gracing the front page by Tsz.

Attention is drwn using this to Electric Eskimo, a “secret side project, just for fun really, fairly lo-fi and analogue. My attempt […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted February 5, 2008 in Art, Blogging, Music | Comments (0)

Spreading the love a bit

Sure, CiB got the award thing and that’s all lovely and stuff, but no blog is an island, especially one like this which employs the via credit liberally. So here’s a quick run down in no particular order of some of the Birmingham blogs I like to think of as Rather Good.
(Not a comprehensive […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted January 29, 2008 in Birmingham, Blogging | Comments (16)

Music is all about the lists

I just wasted two hours of my life writing about the 10 Birmingham bands I think are quite bloody marvelous so the least you can do is go read it. There’s even audio to back up my assertions, and the invitation to draw my attention to other potentially bloody marvelous bands in the region. Get […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted January 24, 2008 in Blogging, Music | Comments (3)

Blink Fashion blog

Blink Magazine have a new Fashion and Beauty blog.

By Pete Ashton | Posted January 22, 2008 in Blogging, Fashion, Links | Comments (0)

Stef’s blog guide

Wanting to set up a website that’s a bit more than a basic weblog? For free? In about 4 hours? Stef Lewandowski has a handy guide.

By Pete Ashton | Posted January 17, 2008 in Blogging, Links | Comments (0)

Paul’s Blog

Paul Birch of Revolver Records has started a blog. Paul, you’ll remember, had that email debate with Andrew Dubber last year that went all viral, so it’s great to see him embracing the form. And given he’s an interesting chap with lots to say about this music industry his blog should come high on a […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted January 16, 2008 in Blogging, Links, Music | Comments (0)

Vale Mail

As part of his search for local community blogs dp has come across a gem in Vale Mail, a relatively new blog covering the minutiae of Castle Vale. While not strictly on the CiB radar it’s an interesting model to look at. dp says:
It has apparently been online for all of 3 months, but has […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted January 16, 2008 in Blogging, Links | Comments (0)

Al Young

Al Young - a new gig reviews blog. Yay! ta D’Cowboy

By Pete Ashton | Posted January 15, 2008 in Blogging, Links, Music | Comments (1)

Feed Blog

Feed, “a platform to showcase their work to a professional standard, enabling students to work across different mediums of design for print, motion and interactive graphics in addition to media, photography, music and art” coming out of Mathew Boulton College, has a weblog.

By Pete Ashton | Posted December 27, 2007 in Blogging, Links | Comments (0)

Thomas Moronic interviewed

Dave Hilliard interviews the writer and blogger Thomas Moronic. Here’s the obligatory Birmingham quote:
The Midlands has other influences as well. As you know, it can be difficult being an artist round here sometimes because it can be quite an isolated place, if you are of a certain creative mindset. The place can be very depressing, […]

By Pete Ashton | Posted December 17, 2007 in Blogging, Interviews, Literature | Comments (0)
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