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Jon Bounds is a writer 〔 and blogger based in Birmingham, England. Raised in the City's Perry Barr district, he attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston. After working as a technical and commissioning editor for friends of ED,〔Bounds' LinkedIn profile〕 he spent nearly four years working for the BBC as technical co-ordinator of the Public Space at BBC Birmingham, and studied Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He was Online Editor for the Big Picture project. Bounds is known for creating a blog called "Birmingham: It's Not Shit" in response to the 2002 bid for Birmingham to become a European City of Culture. In 2012, he told the BBC that the site attracted 10,000 visitors per month.〔 He was listed as the "14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands" in the Birmingham Post's "Power 50" in 2008. and was considered for inclusion again in 2009. On 11 November 2008 (starting at 11am), Bounds spent eleven hours on Birmingham's number 11 bus route, the outer circle, documenting his journey online, using Twitter, Facebook and a blog, elevenbus.co.uk.The next month, he organised ''TwitPanto'', a pantomime on Twitter, which featured a cast that included Government Minister Tom Watson MP and Guardian writer Jemima Kiss. A further TwitPanto, on 18 December 2009, in which Watson - by then a back-bench MP - again had a part, was hosted by Birmingham Hippodrome and named as an Official Honouree by the Webby Awards. The event ran again on 20 December 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitpanto 2010 )〕 Bounds has written for a number of media outlets, including the Birmingham Post, the BBC website,and The Guardian website. With Julia Gilbert, he presented a Saturday-morning radio show on Rhubarb Radio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Julia Gilbert & Jon Bounds ) 〕 In 2011 along with Danny Smith he undertook Pier Review, a trip around all of the surviving pleasure piers in England and Wales for a forthcoming book. In 2014, Bounds co-authored a book with Birmingham City University lecturers John Hickman and Craig Hamilton titled 101 Things Birmingham Gave the World published by Paradise Circus. More recently, he co-authored a book called Pier Review which involved touring the 56 pleasure piers in the UK. It will be published by Summersdale in 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pier Review website )〕 He now resides in Oxford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News: Birmingham's bloggers need to fill in the gaps )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Bounds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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