This documentary of one man’s journey into the derelict Birmingham Battery building is one of the best YouTube films I’ve ever seen. Not because of the production skills of creators Living Proof Films (great though they are), but because of the quite emotional narration. You really do see inside the iconic building from the photographer’s [...]
Archive for August 16, 2009
Hyper-hyper-local: blogging from your garden
One of my favourite books at the moment is called Watching the English, by Kate Fox. In it she puts forward some very persuasive generalisations about how we use our gardens, including the observation that we will wait for months for an opportune moment to speak to our neighbours in their front gardens rather than [...]
Hyper-hyper-local: blogging from your garden
One of my favourite books at the moment is called Watching the English, by Kate Fox. In it she puts forward some very persuasive generalisations about how we use our gardens, including the observation that we will wait for months for an opportune moment to speak to our neighbours in their front gardens rather than [...]
Isle of Wight Words
Ventnor Blog’s Isle of Wight Words is a truly touching feature of the hyperlocal site, bought to the island by Sally and Simon Perry. Ventnor Blog (which isn’t just about Ventnor, but covers the whole island) had been pondering a dictionary of island phrases for some time, but as with so many things, they ‘just [...]
Tools for bloggers
For untutored online adventurers like myself, Google has always been the gateway to exciting things. I always wanted to publish my own writing and when I was growing up it involved carving out a career in journalism. That’s a load of work experience, a degree, a load more work experience and then, if you’re very [...]