About
Paradise Circus is a website to group info and have discussions for/around and to assist Birmingham (and surrounding areas if you like) blogging, web and social media types and the stuff they do. It’s intended to compliment the, already-widespread but disparate, groups, blogging, tools &tc. that are already out there (send us links please).
Any Brum (or nearby) Blogger is welcome to admin rights to this site. dm me on twitter/email with email address for your very own account.
So why Paradise Circus? Well, since the very beginning of meeting up we’ve not been happy with the “Birmingham Bloggers” term. Some thought that it excluded other with not-so-much blogging social media activities (podcasters, flickr users, tweeters, and so on), Birmingham is a little odd as a term too as most people don’t blog about Brum (and there are a few wider WM attendees), and Danny Smith hated the word blogger.
Yeah, but why Paradise Circus? It’s nice, it sounds like a lovely and lively mess of things happening, it radiates democratic love, it’s utopian, it’s a lovely big road island, it’s a Lilac Time album. And if/when the council (with architectural vandalism aforethought) knock the current building (pictured left) down we might be able to flog the URL to new corporate owners…
Site is totally unfinished, comments, suggestions (page with free wifi map on?), help, more posts… well, join up and get going.
