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Category Archives: Birmingham
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.
Syndicating Customisable Hyperlocal Blog Content
Andy Mabbett proposes the syndication of customisable hyperlocal blog content, poses some questions, and invites comments on how this can practically be achieved.
Posted in Birmingham, hyperlocal, local government
Tagged B44, blogging, burslem, clarewhite, great barr, hyperlocal, Lichfield, philipjohn, stoke, syndication, TheB44, twitter:user=clarewhite, twitter:user=philipjohn
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My name is Andy Mabbett, and I’m a Hyperlocal blogger
Andy Mabbett is now a hyperlocal blogger, for ‘The B44’, in Great Barr & Kingstanding, Birmingham, England
Posted in about me, Birmingham, local government, news, social media
Tagged Andy Mabbett, B44, blogging, hyperlocal, HyperWM, TAL11, TalkAboutLocal, The B44, unconference
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Portrait with Brompton Bike
Portraits of Andy Mabbett, part of the Birmingham Cyclists project by Pete, aka Dividenthal.
Posted in about me, Birmingham, photography
Tagged bike, Birmingham, Brompton, cycling, Dividenthal, MabsBrompton, pigsonthewing, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing
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Don’t confuse your social media channels
Piping Facebook status updates to Twitter (or any automation of cross-channel feeds) can give confusing messages.
Sharing images openly is better than uploading to single sites
Posted in Birmingham, local government, microformats, photography, social media, tagging
Tagged archives, Birmingham City Council, birminghamuk, brumtornado, digitalbirmingham, EXIF, flickr, geotagging, history, Historypin, mapping, metadata, microformats, opendata, RDF, siwhitehouse, tagging, Twitter:user=siwhitehouse
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Ian Emes’ ‘French Windows’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’ at Ikon
Ian Emes’ video for Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’, ‘French Windows’, is part of an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, until September 2010
Bacchus Bar, Birmingham. Awful.
A visit to Bacchus Bar, Birmingham, was ruined by bad service, filthy toilets and failure of staff to remove a puddle of vomit.
Posted in annoyances, Birmingham
Tagged bacchus, bacchus bar, bad service, Birmingham, birminghamuk, complaint, customer service, food, geo:lat=52.479173, geo:lon=-1.898847, hygiene, mitchells+butlers, pub, real ale
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25 things about Andy Mabbett
0000-0001-5882-6823I’ve been wondering whether anyone would tag me to give “Seven Things you Never Knew About Me”, and how on Earth I would come up with that many. My friend and colleague Emma Routh tagged me on Facebook in a … Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, humour, nature
Tagged ashtraygrrl, bad debt, Bad Science, banana, Barry Miles, bbc, ben Goldacre, Birmingham, Birmingham Railway Museum, Cadbury, chilli, COBOL, cornbread, counselling, CPR, dog, driving, Duke of Edinburgh, emma routh, facebook, Fairford, first aid, flying, free, fruit, hair, horse, ICC, International Convention Centre, ita, James Galway, John Bundrick, London Symphony Orchestra, Mary McCartney, meme, microlight, Miles, Moseley Bog, nature reserve, pacifism, paint, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, reading, RSPB, Sir Michael Lyons, stalking, street furniture, TBL, The Amazing Pudding, The Guardian, The Who, urinal, usenet, Victoriana, web, West Midland Bird Club, wig
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