Songkick – Personal Live Music Listings

New favourite thing alert!
Songkick is a service which scans your listening habits and tells you when bands you like are playing.
I signed up and after downloading a quick app and scanning my Itunes (took about 5 minutes), I had this on my profile page:

I love all of these bands to pieces and they’re all playing [...]

Digbeth is Good

(One for the Brummies, please ignore if you’re not from round these parts..)
I’d like to congratulate my mate Nicky Getgood.on her new and excellent blog Digbeth is Good.
Living round here can be hard work sometimes. There are hardly any shops, the council never clean the streets, I could go on. But what Nicky’s showing [...]

DConstruct – talking was better than the talks

DConstruct was good fun, although as usual 90% of the value for me was outside of the talks (and it really was worth it – I had a great time).
It did leave me thinking – do we really need speakers at conferences any more?
I read so much on the web at the moment that I [...]

Battlefront: A new C4 Education project are looking for a young campaigner

Channel4 Education have just released Battlefront – an online project around young people and campaigning. They’re chosen 19 campaigners to follow and are looking for the 20th. Know anyone?
More info from the blog:
The project follows 20 teens as they develop campaigns around issues that they care about. We’re partnering with Bebo on the project, and [...]

Elevator Psychology

Josh Porter showed this old video from Candid Camera at dConstruct. It’s very funny.

So, it’s official. We’re all just sheep in men and women’s clothing.
I reckon there’s a version of this you could do in men’s toilets. Actually, let’s not go any further with that.

How to write a killer elevator pitch

Saw this recently in the book Managing Agile Projects by Sanjiv Augustine (which is brilliant by the way. I’m intending to write a few posts on this book when I get time).
How to write your elevator pitch:
For (target customer)
Who (statement of the need or opportunity)
The (product name) is a (product category)
That (key benefit, compelling reason [...]

Joel Justifies my Expensive Chair

Even though I have a permanently sore neck and shoulders I still felt a bit guilty at spending 600 quid on a Humanscale Liberty office chair last year. Not any more – I no longer feel like Quasimodo when it gets to 6 o’clock. It’s been worth every penny.
I justified it to myself by calculating [...]

Head of Innovation at Screen West Midlands

It’s all go at Screen West Midlands at the moment (our local film, tv and digital agency). Here’s an advert for a mighty fascinating sounding job:
We’re looking for an inspirational, experienced and highly skilled individual to support and drive the region’s rapidly changing media landscape.
The new senior level post of Head of Innovation and New [...]

Birmingham Bloggers’ Meetup

Just got back from the meet up at Rooty’s, going to write a very quick one before bed. It was a great evening – really good fun and loads of good ideas to think about.
I think the Brum social media cafe idea that was coming out is killer. I’d definitely join and will help out [...]

Graphjam. Pop culture piecharts ahoy.

Very much in the B3ta.com vein, check out Graphjam for some real, user-generated goodness. Very funny.
Some good ones:

I really want to write something profound about the social objects but I’m just too tired. I will soon, I promise.