Thought of the day

The Year Turns! By JT

This time last year, life was in a rut! It was another year that tends to come along until you die, I tried that in a car accident, and being alive is so much better!

Then suddenly I was in the Ordsall Community Café, and I was nabbed for the Community Reporters Group. Graeme comes in every Tuesday at 10 am., to teach us about digital video. He also comes in on Wednesday afternoon to help people get to grips with computers! Everything today needs IT, so this is a vital leg up for people!

This morning I had had 13,600 views of my personal videos! So I think I got to grips with this digital video stuff! My video blog is edited video on You-Tube! And the world is watching.

So, I have got my ideas out there, being watched and commented on by the world, though Americans do have trouble with anything involving more than sitting in a chair watching videos!

Through my community reporters stuff, I got invited to an IT day by Alison who manages the OCC (Ordsall Community Café). The day was meant to be about linking people up, so it was a networking IT day.

One of the things I played with in Salford early on this year was community radio from the Angel on Regent Road.

This has now moved, but Salford Community Reporters Group has a presence on the internet so Steve and myself had a good chat on what community radio needed.

We agreed that they had hours to fill, and they should have a disability hour. This is my thing, due to my accident, but I want to help improve life for all people in Salford! He emailed me this morning, to say we would sort things out for the New Year, when I am not busy at the Ordsall Community Café.

Jonathan Thomason Community Reporter