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Chance to help build useful apps for hyperlocal sites

July 5, 2010

Hacks and Hackers is an event intended to bring  journalists and freelance publishers (such as hyperlocal site owners) together with developers (such as myself) to share knowledge on news gathering and coding for new gathering. Organised by ScraperWiki and sponsored by Birmingham Science Park Aston and Digital Birmingham, the event is free to all though [...]

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Future of News West Midlands Round-up

February 9, 2010

Last night saw the first Future of News West Midlands meetup take place at Birmingham City University’s Perry Barr campus. We started off with a quick introduction before Andrew Brightwell gave a short talk on his background and his involvement in new hyperlocal project, Grounds. Andrew told us how Grounds was the result of a [...]

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West Midlands Future of News Group

February 2, 2010

The first ever meeting of the West Midlands branch of the Future of News group will be held at Birmingham City University on Monday February 8 at 6.45pm. Inspired by the Future of News group in London, organised by Adam Westbrook, WM FON has been set up to discuss how new approaches can help to [...]

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Future of News West Midlands?

January 21, 2010

I’ve just arrived home from the second Future of News meetup organised by epic visionary, Adam Westbrook. When Adam first announced the meetup I thought one for the West Midlands would be good but didn’t take the thought further till I met Adam at last week’s news:rewired conference. You may be thinking, “oh great, another [...]

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