Nikki is working on a directory of "useful spaces" where meetups, coworking and adhoc events can take place in Birmingham from cafes with wifi to venues that are friendly and cheap. You can submit spaces in the form on her site and add more details to the spreadsheet. All powered by Google Docs and a nice illustration of collaborative writing and crowdsourcing.

It looks like Alternative Reality Games are going to be big in Birmingham this year. Here's a handy primer. See also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game">Wikipedia's entry</a>.

Nikki Pugh's Emergent Game expands to take over the world. See also <a href="http://www.npugh.co.uk/blog/call_and_return_and_the_ludogeographers/">her blog post</a>.

The redoubtable Nikki Pugh goes to an Alternative Reality Game conference and compares her notes to the experience of running The Emergent Game last month. As always with her a lot of good stuff to digest.