yesterday me and @probablydrunk recorded a commentary for the big wheel in town - it has its moments

Jon Bounds addresses the issue of people setting up Twitter accounts for their businesses and use them as individuals. He roughly divides it into two problems: <i>1) People that know you will get fed up of constant business tweets (if they aren’t heavy users or fans of your service). 2) People that care about your business are put off by the personal stuff.</i> I'd agree with most of what he's saying but would add this isn't such a problem when the person is the brand, as happens with many small arts companies and organisations. But on the whole some good advice. (Jon's been ill this week so this was written by Grumpy Jon. I like Grumpy Jon.)

Jon Bound's talk from Friday night at Metapod Connect

Jon writes a four part account of the fantastic work he and others did over Christmas translating a council consultation document into Plain English and turning it into a blog so the issues could be discussed and not simply commented on. This project is now being used nationally as an example both of how cheap / free social media tools can be used to connect with citizens and how the public can use them organise quickly and effectively. Essential reading.

Jon Bounds ties up Twitpanto, his audacious and spectacular attempt to stage a pantomime on a conversational microblogging platform. Well worth a read.

Jon Bounds' magnificent account of his spending 11 hours on the number 11 bus in Birmingham on November 11th. "Other than a method of transport its main function was to provide both the structure and lack of control for the journey" he says and the end result is reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or Bill Drummond's finest works.

Jon Bounds' notion for a special Birmingham day where you're encouraged to spend 11 hours on the number 11 bus route on November 11th and document your adventures.

Jon Bounds tries to draw up some guidelines based on the Artsfest Using Twitter conflab.

a blog-hub for people in Birmingham who use internet stuff. Lovely name!

Jon Bounds has started at wiki for Birmingham with some rather neat mapping involved. Like Wikipedia only different. And about Brum. Get adding stuff.