headwayyouth- phil smith's blog

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  • All things ethical
  • Blogosphere
  • Church old and new
  • Emerging Church
  • Life on the Tyne
  • Media musings
  • The beautiful game
  • Web 2.0
  • Youthwork

Current reading material

  • George Monbiot: Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning

    George Monbiot: Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning

  • : Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Communities in Postmodern Cultures

    Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Communities in Postmodern Cultures

  • David Tacey: Spirituality Revolution

    David Tacey: Spirituality Revolution

Current listening

  • Various Artists -

    Various Artists: Live Lounge

  • Razorlight -

    Razorlight: Razorlight

Blogs

  • Babble Babble Babble
  • ben hanbury
  • benedson
  • Distinctly Askew
  • embody :: creative living :: life coaching
  • emerging minister
  • Existential Punk
  • howies® - by the way
  • Jason Clark Blog
  • jonnybaker
  • journal | moby.com
  • LivingRoom >> A space for Life
  • maggi dawn
  • Monbiot.com
  • mootblog
  • Nouslife
  • Postmodern bible- Pete's Blog
  • Ruthe
  • si johnston
  • Silkworm.org.uk- lou's blog
  • Sue Wallace
  • tallskinnykiwi :: the blog of andrew jones
  • The Harbour of Ourselves
  • the old bill
  • The Simple Pastor
  • third space
  • Way Out West- Mark Berry
  • Wondering
  • Youthblog: Christian Youth Work & Ministry

Ethical bits & blogs

  • :: People Tree :: Fair Trade - Ecology - Fashion
  • Action Against Starbucks
  • Gossypium : The Ethical Eco-Cotton Store
  • hippyshopper
  • howies®
  • Hug; fair-trade, organic clothing
  • See the Flipside
  • STOP THE TRAFFIK
  • Traidcraft online store

...the end

as explained here, after two and a bit years headwayyouth is being laid to rest in a couple of weeks time and, having spent a few days getting the new blog up and running, the transition can now take place.

from now on you can find me blogging over at happytraveller.typepad.com.

to all those who've kindly blogrolled me, i'd be jolly grateful if you could update your blogroll.

i've also got a new email address phil_smith01@yahoo.co.uk

thanks phil

March 27, 2007 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

To blog...

All of a sudden I've lots to blog about so I'm going to write my 'to blog' list here and then cross them off over the next five days:

1) Fairtrade fortnight

2)  Picnik

3) London

4) New phone

5) The future of headwayyouth

6) Spirited Exchanges

March 01, 2007 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

c/o blaugh.com

If a Blog Falls

February 14, 2007 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Guillemots entertain...

Just stumbled across a quality video of the Guillemots playing on the streets of Paris. If you're a fan take a look it's very entertaining (and it's worth persevering for the first couple of minutes).

Zo's birthday present is two tickets to see the Guillemots in a couple of weeks time. Hoping she's going to take me!

January 20, 2007 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Tags: Guillemots

Another great Web2.0 article...

More goodness in today's Observer. www.thenewrevolutionaries tracks further developments in Silicon Valley and in particular points to the following applications;

The new MySpace is ... Blue Dot
Banner_logoUsers click on a blue dot on their screen when they find something they like on the web, storing it and sharing it with their friends. They also receive a constant update of their friends' selections of blue dots, a way of following their interests. Blue Dot spokeswoman Erin Petrie said: 'You know what movies your friends have seen and what restaurants they've been to. It makes for richer conversation.'
The new YouTube is ... Loopt
Loopt causes mobile phones to send a 'beat' to a phone mast or satellite every 15 minutes, pinpointing their location. Phone owners can share this information with friends' phones or computers for $2.99 per month in the US.
The new iTunes is ... Pandora
In every song, they study hundreds of musical details such as melody, rhythm and lyrics. The point of it all is Pandora, a website that invites users to type in a favourite song or artist, then finds songs with a 'genetic match' and plays them like a radio station. The service is free, supported by advertising, and has four million listeners.
The new Google is ... Powerset
today's products, such as Google, search only for keywords and cannot, for example, distinguish between 'book for children', 'book by children', and 'book about children'. But a natural language search could identify 'function' words, understand that word order means something and respect the importance of small 'stop words'.
The new Craigslist is ... Yelp
Volunteer reviewers, or Yelpers, write about their local restaurants, shops, doctors - anything worth reviewing. Their eagerness to share combines the best of social networking with the tools of local search, such as Google Maps.

Logosquidoohome I haven't checked them all out yet, but Bluedot looks especially intriguing. I also like the sound of Squidoo, where you can build pages that demonstrate what you're passionate about in contrast to the blogosphere where much of the focus is on the individual.
Squidoo also donates to charities and they've already built a school in Cambodia and are funding research into diabetes.

November 26, 2006 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tags: Bluedot, Squidoo, Web2.0

Any offers...


My blog is worth $47,985.90.
How much is your blog worth?

November 24, 2006 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Popurls.com

Now here is a good website. Popurls tracks and presents the most popular themes on dozens of websites (del.icio.us, digg, youtube etc). I guess it's kind of like a super deluxe newsreader!Popurl

November 07, 2006 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The power of the marginal voice

As you do on your hols, I've enjoyed reading the papers more thoroughly than ever. Two particular themes of news have stood out:

  1. Buylocal It seems that that a war has broken out between supermarkets competing for the ethical consumer's weekly shop. Earlier this week Sainsburys announced it was shifting 500 of it's own brand products from plastic to compostable packaging and just yesterday Tesco announced a new 10 point community plan, including a focus on buying more products locally.
  2. An article in the Guardian and a report on tonight's Channel 4 news suggest that bloggers are having more influence on the world than ever, demonstrated by the fact that a group of liberal bloggers met with Bill Clinton last week

Although the two themes are very different as I read one article after the other I was struck by the underlying similarity that increasingly the marginal voice which has been silenced for years is being listened to; the supermarkets are listening to consumers concerns about ethical issues and politicians are becoming wary of the blogosphere. In response to these trends there is the temptation for those who find themselves on the margins to cave in and join those occupying the centreground; to believe shopping at Sainsburys is fine because it's directors are taking the company in the right direction, to pledge allegiance to political parties who give the impression that they are listening.
In both instances I think it is important that those who have caused these changes choose not hop in bed with the enemy but instead stay in that uncomfortable place where your shopping costs more but you keep your local grocer in business and you earn less and have less power, but your posts are not effected by overfriendly politicians.

September 16, 2006 in All things ethical, Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

No posts and no apology...

This morning I spent a little while catching up on the blogosphere and the number of people apologising for too few posts of late was notable. I'm also amazed that it's always the same people informing readers of just how busy they have been.
Personally I haven't blogged over the last ten days for two reasons,
1) I've been relatively busy; but I'm not fishing for sympathy; this was my decision because I had some fun things to do, much more important than telling you more stories of gay bishops or an eco-church
2) I had nothing to say; an enjoyable silence when my mind was dulled by the lack of controversy in the weekends papers and seemingly by smog of London and a few beverages over the weekend
If I was on Room 101 I would get rid of posts that begin "sorry for not blogging recently I've been soooo busy"; if you are busy it is probably your decision to be that busy, so you ain't getting no sympathy from this direction; if you haven't posted recently that's fine you don't owe me anything, so I'm grateful you've finally got round to posting now.

June 26, 2006 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0)

Blogroll extended

Just added a couple more entries to the blogosphere,

  1. Ben Topham's blog; Ben's an old buddy of mine from days at Cliff, a youthwork practitioner in Mansfield and very, very funny!
  2. Ruthe's blog; stumbled over Ruth's blog after she commented yesterday. A Christian youthworker in Shropshire and ethical/ecological enthusiast!

June 11, 2006 in Blogosphere | Permalink | Comments (0)

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