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5 days at the Guardian

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Guardian morning editorial

 
Work experience is often code for ‘tea boy’ – the glamor-less work horses of offices up and down the UK. Although I may not have made much tea in the last week, I do feel like the Guardian have put me to good use and more than that – I have acquired much that I… »

Review: Live blogging Guild Council

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As some of you may have noticed, we tried a basic version of live blogging (when i say basic i mean one man, one laptop and twitter) at the last Guild Council of the year. It proved to be a very valuable experience which we… »

Re-post: Eighteen thousand people, fifty million Americans (25.01.08)

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With Obama’s health care reform being so heavily discussed at the moment I thought it would be prudent to link to an article I wrote last January on the problems with the American health care system.
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No Platform Policy

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In an early Guild Council at the University of Birmingham the ‘No Platform Policy’ came up for renewal (all policy lapses after three years). Strong arguments were made, both in… »

What is the role of facebook?

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Do you have Facebook?

Networks and connections -  life is about who you know. Facebook is a fantastic tool for building and maintaining contacts – however how will it feature in our attempt to… »

SHACing up

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Housing in Selly Oak Photo: Pete Blakemore

AS soon as the fresher bubble breaks one of the first things students look to get sorted is a second year house. Somehow, as the years have progressed at Birmingham… »

Parting is such bitter sweet sorrow

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This is going to be a personal and self-indulgent post, so apologies for those who were looking for more. Tomorrow morning I will head in to the Redbrick office for… »

Nothing without content

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With all the talk about new social media and the projects that new technology is going to allow us to embark on in the coming year, I thought it would… »

Speak up – Audioboo

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Audioboo

So, when I was at Jeecamp I was introduced to the Audioboo app on the iPhone and what a moment that was, it gives your the ability to record an… »

Guild Council + Redbrick

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Redbrick + Guild Council

I attended Guild Council tonight and we elected new independent chairs and elections committee members. I was twittering the goings on under #Guildcouncil as a bit of an experiment on… »