Items of interest found around the Internets

• Walkit.com blog - Walkit, a tenant, have a new blog as part of a site overhaul by Substrakt, a tenant. Nice.
• Type Tours with Ben Waddington - Part of the Plus+ Expo again this year is Ben’s wonderful walking tours around the city pointing out the typography that surrounds us. There are Digbeth walks every day from noon and I’d urge you to go along on one if you’re free. Great stuff.
• Home Of Metal in Wolverhampton - Loads of photos reporting on Capsule’s first Home of Metal event in Wolverhampton. 970 people came “from small kids, to teenagers right through to the more distinguished older gentlemen.” Next one is in Walsall on November 6th.
• Full schedule for the Plus+ International Design Expo - Starts on Wednesday 5th November at 1pm, ends at 5pm on Saturday.
• Organic Eastside: regeneration by maniacs - Nicky Getgood draws some interesting threads from the Organic Eastside meeting on Tuesday (which I’m annoyed I missed…) and Bennie Gray’s manifesto, particularly George Ferguson call to “identify the maniacs” who will drive interesting regeneration. I also liked this bit:
  

  He had a very interesting take on the credit crunch, that it may actually be a blessing in disguise. It’ll stop the building of blinkered, one-use projects in their tracks for a start. It could instead leave room for ’slow architecture’ of more flexible, mixed-use buildings, which develop organically over time, adapting to economic and environmental change as they grow.