Friday, February 23, 2007

Fresh blogs

Young bloggers rule. Here's one of the youngest I know of: David Wilkinson was born (in Manchester, of course) in 1994. He's also the force behind Techzi, a blog about all things technological that's very highly regarded; The Techzi feed has 199 subscribers.
David describes himself as an "internationally acclaimed weirdo, founder of Zi Media, and general nutter." You rock, David.

The Mersey Basin Campaign blog has moved here, and changed slightly in focus, writes blogmeister Kate. "It's a bit wider in scope - rather than just focusing on 'Mersey Basin Week', it's a blog for the whole campaign. Highlights at the moment are a thread following the progress of the book we are putting together about the River Mersey, and news about the project to redevelop the Radar Tower at Crosby."

Nik Fletcher is a student at RNCM and a bit of a technophile. He's also an observer of Mancunian life, who "noticed this week that yet another Sainsburys Local getting ready to open on March 8th under what is believed to be a hotel (IIRC) on Mosley Street just down from Picadilly. With 4 Sainsbury Locals already in the City Centre, all within easy walking distance of each other, I can't help but wonder who's letting these applications go through."

Red Rose Ramblings
is the work of a 30-something Lancastrian - it's Steven, who also writes for the FC United blog MREnders. He has a funny account of just how eager a certain local newspaper seems to shift copies.

On the heels of the Salford Star, here's another community-media venture for you: The Old Trafford News, which comes with a blog called Old Trafford Views, written by editor Ally Fogg.

7 comments:

David Wilkinson said...

David Wilkinson here, thanks a tonne! Gotta love the fellow Mancunian bloggers round here. ;)

Technorati likes link love. Thanks for feeding it. That, and my ego.

Ally said...

~~~~~~waves~~~~~~~

Hello everyone.

Kate Feld said...

Hey guys. welcome to the blogroll!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link! Maybe one of these days I'll sort out my links and get a proper blogroll going :D

Dan Bourke said...

Hi, and thanks in advance for your time.

I'm a Cardiff University student and am writing a study on citizen journalism and its impact on the journalism industry...

I'm hoping to distriubte a simple, email survey to 100 bloggers such as yourself and was wondering firstly, if you would be willing to participate? It would only need two to three minutes of your time.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Many thanks again,

Kindest regards,

Dan

Kate Feld said...

Okay Dan.... you didn't leave any contact info, though. My email address is on the sidebar. I warn you though, I don't have much time right now, so if it's longer than 2-3 minutes I'll skip it.

Spitting Mad said...

hello Manchizzle.

We've been spitting again. From Manchester. But not on the public highway.

Thanks for dropping by!

dollyxx