… but I feel the need to mark the 2nd birthday of Digbeth is Good and the 1st birthday of More Canals Than Venice.
DiG came from a vague idea I had for a culture-biased blog about the area which I gave to Nicky Getgood who made it a thousand times less vague and drove it to national acclaim, not to mention a drastic career shift with Talk About Local.
More Canals I had nothing to do with directly but it’s blatantly inspired by Created in Birmingham, which was the whole point of CiB back in the day – to say to the arty types “stop relying on expensive centralised websites, go use free tools to do your own.” So to see Annabel successfully use the CiB model to carve out her own niche without futilely trying to cover everything is most gratifying.
I has a proud.
…and rightly so.
Cheers for letting me lose with digbeth.org, it’s been a grand couple of years! :-)
i’m sure andy meant to say that pete *can* take real credit for them, & nicky meant to think him for letting her *win* (or letting her *loose*) with digbeth.org !
:)
Yes, that’s how I read it. :)
I meant that Pete rightly has a proud!
Thank you :)