One of mine. Started Jan 2007 half as an idea about blogging a city that wasn’t London or New York and half as an exercise in convincing the creative and artistic communities in Birmingham that they needed to embrace this newfangled blogging stuff. And along the way to connect people who weren’t already connected. Oh, and to show you could have a damn useful website using free software and a free design - you just need to pay for content. And some other stuff. Had more aims that it’s had editors and it’s onto number four. (I left in April 2008)

Created in me and Stef Lewandownski. Funded, until recently, by Creative Republic through the City Council for a bit (though I don’t think they knew it) and then the Art Council. Edited by Chris Unitt for a while, then Kate Spragg and now Adrienne Frances. Figuring out who owns this baby is part of the fun.

When I talk about “doing a CiB”, this is what I’m referring to.