Lifting my veil at the Manchester Blog Awards
Oct 24 2008
Posted by Martin as Internet, Manchester, blogs
The Manchester Blog Awards took place this week and it led me to have to lift a veil of anonymity I’ve enjoyed for a year.
Of course, if any city in the UK was going to have an awards ceremony for blogs it would be Manchester. As the pioneering city that gave birth to the modern [...]
A couple of days ago I was alerted (via David Ottewell’s excellent Politics blog) to something interesting going on quite close to where I live in Manchester, UK. Yes, Trafford Council have embraced web video and are using it to create a weekly news programme about goings on in the area. Great! [...]
Following on from yesterday’s write-up about The Tony Wilson Experience, here’s the BBC’s Politics Show’s coverage of the event. I’m featured for all of three seconds. Look out for me between 3:05 and 3:08 (yes, literally three seconds!). It should also give you a feel for the event if you weren’t there…
A few weeks ago I decided to apply to take part in The Tony Wilson Experience, a “24-hour conversation” taking place in a big ten outside Urbis in memory of the Factory Records supremo, who passed away last August. In order to be part of it applicants had to submit something creative that they’d [...]
At The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast meet in Manchester
Jun 19 2008
Posted by Martin as Events, Manchester
I don’t listen to many podcasts. The SMS Text News and All About Symbian podcasts are good weekly listens when it comes to all things mobile-related, but aside from that my main podcast consumption comes courtesy of The Guardian’s fantastic range of podcasts. They really are professionally done, sounding like Radio 5 Live probably [...]
