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Trevor Mabbett’s comments on ‘The Man on the Beat’
Trevor Mabbett’s comments on ‘The Man on the Beat’, a 1945 British Council film made in Ledsam Street, Ladywood, Birmingham. Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, local government, reviews
Tagged air-raid shelter, BDC, Bellis & Morcom, Birmingham, blackout, Discol, Harrisons, IRA, Ladywood, Ledsam Street, Little Miss Barber, Lloyd Davis, LMS, Norman Bartlam, police, RAF, Rann Street, Rhodes, Royal Air Force, Snow Hill, St Margaret's, Steelhouse Lane, The Gunpowder Shop, Trevor Mabbett, Villa Park, Witton
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The BBC, Open Content and Wikipedia
Andy Mabbett describes how the BBC could make more use of Wikipedia’s open-licensed content on its regional news and sport pages Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, ideas, microformats, Pink Floyd, social media, Wikipedia
Tagged Assay Office, bbc, Birmingham, hBiota, Mailbox, microformat, microformats, open content, Pink Floyd, Robin Morley, social media, species microformat, wikipedia
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How eBay could help Wikimedia Commons get more open-licensed images
Andy Mabbett asks eBay to help Wikimedia Commons gather open-licensed images of historic items offered for sale through them. Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, ideas, Wikipedia
Tagged Birmingham, eBay, free, General Elliot, Henry Biggs, Moor Street, open licence, token, trade token, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia
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The Prime Minister, Social Media Surgeries and Me
Andy Mabbett is a recipient, with others, of the “Big Society Award”, for his work running Social Media Surgeries. Continue reading
Posted in about me, Birmingham, hyperlocal, news, social media, Twitter, Wikipedia, WordPress
Tagged Aston, Big Society, Birmingham, Coventry, David Cameron, digbeth, Dudley, facebook, google, libcamp, libcampUK2011, Nick booth, Oscott, perry barr, Pete Ashton, social media, social media surgeries, social media surgery, Stourbridge, twitter, Walsall, wikipedia, wordpress
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Talking about Pink Floyd at Thinktank Planetarium
Andy Mabbett will be giving talks about three Pink Floyd albums, at the Planetarium at Thinktank, in central Birmingham, in August/ September 2011. Continue reading
Posted in about me, Birmingham, Pink Floyd
Tagged Dark Side of the Moon, digbeth, fulldome, lecture, Millennium Point, Pink Floyd, planetarium, talk, The Wall, ThinkTank, Wish You Were Here, WYWH
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An open letter to Iain (M) Banks: please give Twitter a try
Andy Mabbett writes an open letter to Iain M Banks, explaining why he’d benefit from being on Twitter. Continue reading
Unusual behaviour of Blue Tit at nest site
Andy Mabbett documents (with photograph and video) an unusual Blue Tit nest, in a dead tree, with separate entrance and exit holes. Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, nature
Tagged behaviour, Betula pendula, birds, Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, geo:lat=52.5857, geo:lon=-1.8699, geotagged, nature, nest, nesting, ornithology, RSPB, RSPB Walsall, Silver Birch, Sutton Park, taxonomy:binomial=Betula_pendula, taxonomy:binomial=Cyanistes_caeruleus, taxonomy:genus=Betula, taxonomy:genus=Cyanistes, taxotagged, wildlife
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Will we get a warm welcome or a cold shoulder at Tech Wednesday?
Andy Mabbett notes that a new attendee at Tech Wednesday left with a bad impression, and suggests some lessons that might be learned. Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, Birmingham, microformats, social media, web standards
Tagged Aston, Birmingham, Birmingham Science Park, Birmingham Social Media Cafe, BirminghamSPA, bsmc, C++, coffee, coworking, geek, geo:lat=52.488678, geo:lon=-1.887298, geotagged, html5, Jane Fisher, janefisherorganise, JaneOrganise, meetup, otaku_coder, social, social networking, SQL, tech, Tech Wednesday, techies, twiitter:status=70436025842933760, twitter:user=birminghamspa, twitter:user=JaneOrganise, twitter:user=otaku_coder, twitter:user=techwednesday, vcard, web design, web development
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The mysterious case of Birmingham’s missing Victorian cast iron urinal
Andy Mabbett wants to know what happened to the listed Victorian cast iron urinal, which he acquired for Birmingham Railway Museum in 1987. Continue reading
Alan Sugar, Digby Jones and me, in the Daily Express
Andy Mabbett is quoted in Ros Dodd’s article, “The Apprentice Proves that Britain Means Business”, in the Daily Express. Continue reading