GoGreaterManchester.org.uk
GoGreaterManchester.org.uk is the homepage of a coalition of Manchester residents campaigning for a ‘yes’ vote in the city’s referendum on public transport. It is ‘the voice of 9 out of 10 residents who will not pay the congestion charge’, with its members wanting more trams, trains, buses and cycle routes - and a better environment.
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RainyCityStories.com
RainyCityStories.com launched in October 2008 as part of Manchester Literature Festival. Kate Feld, a North West-based freelance writer, received funding from Arts Council England for an innovative literature project for Greater Manchester. She asked me to build a website that would allow stories and poems by both commissioned writers and the general public to be [...]
Mancubist.co.uk
I launched Mancubist.co.uk in May 2006. It was originally intended as a place for me to try out blogging tools and new web developments, but I soon refocussed its content around Manchester’s burgeoning arts and culture scenes. Listings magazine CityLife had folded the previous year, shortly after I started writing for it, and there was [...]
Manchester Confidential
Jonathan Schofield, editor of Manchester Confidential, one of the city’s most popular culture and lifestyle websites, commissioned me to write a couple of short features about Manchester’s online communities:
Virtually here
Chris Horkan describes how Manchester has gained a second life
Bloggers aren’t anal, are they?
Chris Horkan checks out the city’s blogging scene in the week of [...]