Helga Henry, with whom I have worked on a number of (okay, two) training courses, has a new blog about "releasing creativity".

Photos of American (on the whole) kids dressed up as superheroes. Better than it sounds and it sounds great.

My friend and occasional colleague Helga Henry has finally found her blogging voice. Loving this.

A blog by someone reading Tolkien for the first time. I love the tone of bemusement.

The Juneau Projects boys have a blog.

I'm torn on this one. On the one hand "boring" looking blogs are incredibly empowering as they give people a platform with no need for design skills. On the other I love hand crafted stuff and do care what my web presences look like.

is the "research centre of the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University" which comprises a bunch of interesting people. A blog to keep tabs on.

A blog I recently came across (via Twitter, probably). Not sure exactly why I like it or why it's good but that's probably why I like it and why it's good. Gets the balance right between show and tell.

Back in 2004 I linked to Neill and James Cameron's project to review everything in the world ever. Their efforts trickled to a halt around 2005 but I'm delighted to notice that the URL returned in October. Many delights on display including a review of the atrocious looking film <a href="http://urt.blogspot.com/2008/11/shark-in-venice.html">Shark in Venice</a> complete with trailer. Oh yes!

James Arctic went to Eardrum on the 27th and pronounced it good. "Seriously, the energy levels last night were beyond anything i've ever experienced at any other dubstep rave, the sound was sick, the atmosphere was dope and the dj's were rinsin some of the sickest tunes i've ever witnessed."

His blog isn't just post-club rantings though. There's a lot of good stuff in there including a video of the Ideal Skate boys on a trip to Northampton. One to keep an eye on.

Matt Haughey, who created MetaFilter back in the day, has a moan about how things ain't like they were. I love this sort of stuff.

is Birmingham's long mooted digital festival happening in October. They have a blog and, shockingly, seem to be using it very well indeed. Have we turned a corner? I think we might have done. Pete is happy!

Merlin Mann is one of a small pool of old-school bloggers I have a lot of time for. Here he outlines some basic and pretty obvious guidelines, so basic and obvious that I forget them from time to time. Worth a read.

A "stop 'em in the street" fashion blog for Birmingham which, I think, is just what the city needs right now. Magic. <i>via <a href="http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2008/08/style-icons-of-birmingham.html">BiNS</a></i>

Keri Davies, aka the Archers writer I know, has a blog.

social media blogger whose words I find interesting and in place inspiring. Will be subscribing.

Set up by me during Thursday's meeting, this should hopefully be where interested parties can discuss ideas and plans for this new community radio station in Birmingham

Email in some images and text and it creates a nice looking web page. Do it again from the same email and you've got a blog. Very impressive and I need to write more about why but for now here's the link. Go check it out.

Speechification for telly. Interesting that while they rip and mp3 the radio shows they're embedding the iPlayer here, meaning the older posts are full of "no longer available" screens and therefore useless. Be useful for current stuff though.

Young Danny, aka "the boyfriend of my stalker", has moved his blog to a new domain.

Jonathan, aka OrangeJon, has a new "professional" blog. Since we share a lot of ideas I'll be following this.

Mark Kermode has a video blog with concise and nicely relaxed views, reviews and plugs for the stuff he likes. Fan bloody tastic.

Local cats, critiqued and ranked.

"bloggers-feeding-MSM-feeding-bloggers"

"a plugin that lets you write series of posts in WordPress, without having to deal with the hassle of manually writing up tables of contents or “next” and “previous” links in each post."

Hmmm......

The blog of film company Eight Eyed Sea Bass

new blog of note