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Well who would have believed our Tuesday story about Birmingham City Council accidently printing a picture of Birmingham Alabama on its recycling leaflet could have recieved so much attention.

News of the blunder, first discovered by Kings Heath resident Jon Cooper who contacted The Birmingham Post about it, has appeared on national news and is zooming across the blogosphere.

Here is just a taste of what people have said:

Citizens of Birmingham Alabama we thank you.

It seems you have been integral to Birmingham UK reaching its 2007/08 recycling targets.

Picture by Lee Jordan.

The fate of Birmingham's Central Library is always a good topic to get Birmingham's blogosphere going.

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The Post Office has announced propsals to close 56 branches in the West Midlands.

I hope you will indulge me in a little experiment.

Below is a mind map. It was created for free using a site called bubbl.us and is a brainstorm of what, when tidied up a bit, may be my speech for Monday's Big Debate panel.

Is the digital age eroding our national right to queue? Chris Poolman and Keir Williams, creators of the Digital is Dangerous campaign, present their "political manifesto" explaining why the information revolution is not all it's cracked up to be.

Paul Bradshaw, lecturer in journalism and new media at Birmingham City University and author of the Online Journalism Blog, argues an online future is bright.

Digital. Hm. Zero. One. Zero. One. One. Zero... That's one way of looking at it. Here's another: Footage of aeroplanes hitting the Twin Towers. One. A series of blogs detailing survivors of the Asian tsunami and information about rescue efforts. Zero. One. A mobile phone image of the tube tunnel on July 7, 2005. One. One. A Facebook group communicating information about the Virginia Tech shootings. Zero. Zero. One. Text messages about the Chinese earthquake. One. Zero. One.

Welcome to The Big Debate blog.

Over the next ten days I hope it will spark discussion on the future of digital technology and the impact it has on our lives.

Whether it be communication, entertainment, education, politics or commerce, there seems very little in life that has not been touched by the rapid development of these new tools.