It being Valentines and all I thought I would post about an area in the country that gets a lot of love on welovelocal.com – Birmingham. The site Created in Birmingham has got me pretty excited this week as it is all about the creative community in Birmingham. It aims to be a space to showcase some of Birmingham’s best creative talents and events. However the blog has a double identity in that it also aims to demonstrate to people in the creative community how the utilize internet, and in particular blogs. The aim is to create buzz and engaging conversation within the community.

The site provides a great overview of all that is going on within the creative community in Birmingham and keeps other creative peeps in the know about galleries, events and meetups. It is also on the shortlist for the Media Guardian Innovation Awards 08 - though, I know this through reading the blog not the Guardian.

If you’re a budding creative talent in Brum you can drop the editor Pete Ashton an email and tell him what you’re up to and what you do, and you may have a chance of being featured on the blog, failing that there is always an updated ‘News River’ that gives you the lo down on good links and news for the area.

You may well have noticed the big orange arrow on the picture? That is in fact Dan’s dad in all his younger glory - this was a total coincidence, I was posting about the site and Dan caught a glimpse of my screen and informed that the picture was of his dad?! Incredibly random - but hey, that’s what happens when you have super famous parents right?