Birmingham Local Blogs Wire

Following my recent post on Will Perrin's Talk About Local initiative, Jon Bounds has pushed ahead and created a Birmingham Local Blogs Wire by feeding a selection of blogs about Birmingham through Yahoo! Pipes.

You can read all about the thinking behind the Birmingham Blog Wire here.

Robin Hamman (@cybersoc) and I spent many an hour talking through this type of aggregation during his time at the BBC, primarily as method for BBC Local journalists across the UK to work more effectively with the local bloggers and active websites within their patch.

Sadly we never got past the talking part which is why it's really great to see something like this finally come alive, hooray!