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1. 

   peteashton
   

   With Will Perrin's Ultra Local Voice project looking to get some traction in the West Midlands I thought it would be handy to do a stock take of the blogs we already have that concentrate on a specific area. I'm not so much interested in blogs about Birmingham as blogs about very particular areas of Birmingham no bigger than a square mile or so.

   Off the top of my head:

   http://digbeth.org/
   http://valemail.wordpress.com/
   http://highburyparkfriends.org.uk/wp/
   http://www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk/wordpress/
   http://centenaryplaza.wordpress.com/
   http://www.moseleyexchange.com/ (under development)

   Any more?

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   Chris Unitt
   

   Also:

   Eastside - http://eastsideblog.wordpress.com/
   Edgbaston, Harborne, Quinton, Bartley Green - http://deirdrealden.blogspot.com/
   Jewellery Quarter - http://twitter.com/MyJQ and http://www.jewelleryquarter.net/category/blog/

   Unfortunately Hagley Road to Ladywood (http://mymarilyn.blogspot.com/) doesn't qualify.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   jonhickman
   

   http://kewracomm.wordpress.com/ - not that outward facing so hope they don't mind the link... they were my patient at social media surgery last month

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   jonhickman
   

   Shame this one dried up:
   http://erdingtonecho.wordpress.com/

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   peteashton
   

   Should add if they're dead that's also interesting, seeing what they tried and what could have been done to help.

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   jonhickman
   

   I thought / hoped you'd say that, for those reasons!

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   peteashton
   

   http://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. 

   cmbainbridge
   

   Another Stirchley is Possible, although there have been no posts for quite a while.

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. 

   Jon Bounds
   

   > very particular areas of Birmingham no bigger than a square mile or so.

   local is a funny beast, lots of these areas are a lot bigger than a square mile, but anyhoo i think we all know what local feels like without having to say define it.

   Some blogs (maybe defunct):
   http://lifeinbearwood.wordpress.com/
   http://moseleyblog.blogspot.com/
   http://brumcitycentre.wordpress.com/
   http://deirdrealden.blogspot.com/

   not blogs:
   http://www.geocities.com/goosemoorlane/
   and his spectacular list of 'local-ish' sites:
   http://www.geocities.com/goosemoorlane/links.htm#thingToJumpTo48

   http://iloveyorkroad.com/

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    Jon Bounds
    

    lozells.info

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 

    Jon Bounds
    

    http://kingsheathen.co.uk

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. 

    chrisivens
    

    So why isn't there a Birmingham ultra local blog directory then?

    Posted 1 year ago #
13. 

    Jon Bounds
    

    Directories are hard work, basically.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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