Brisbane Events, Brisbane Blogs and Brisbane Journalism: The where and the when

Each week I try to cover a relatively thorough list of free events happening in Brisbane, an idea that struck me when I realised that most of my friends and I really don't know anything about what is happening in the city around us or where to find this out. In the beginning I was hopeful that I would find some kind of site that compiled all the events happening in Brisbane in chronological order, or something similar. Instead I have found a few different websites that I rely on for my information but it still involves a lot of virtual running around and searches. When looking for events to list I will typically have around 10 tabs open, all searching for events that are new, exciting and free. Some of my favourite sources that I have come to rely on over the past weeks are:

• http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/whats-on
• http://www.visitbrisbane.com.au/whats-on
• http://www.weekendnotes.com/brisbane/
• http://www.au.timeout.com/brisbane/
• https://www.facebook.com/BrisbaneEvents
• http://brisbanepowerhouse.org/whats-on/
• http://www.brisbanekids.com.au/things-to-do-in-brisbane-with-kids/ 

It's important to remember that the key reason that I have to seek out so many sources to find a list of events that is varied enough for me is because the only type of event I am looking for is 'free'. People with different areas of interest are more likely to be in the know of events relevant to those interests and where to find out about them. This got me thinking in a recent lecture about crowdsourcing, could we create a crowdsourced page to collaborate and compile a sort of all-inclusive list of Brisbane events? A Brisbane Wiki of sorts.

I think it could be a very interesting and exciting project to create a website that easily allows all different walks of life to contribute to the list of events that are happening in the area. The events could be listed in chronological order and sorted under tags that would help to find events that you are interested in.

While you can contact the authors of the various sites I have listed and submit an event in our modern culture of immediacy and collaboration this doesn't compare to the potential that I see in a crowdsourced event list.

What is interesting to me about this idea is that I couldn't find an example of it on the internet that was user friendly and accessible. The closest I could find to a user friendly collaborative event wiki was scrolling through "nearby" events on my Facebook account which was largely just frustrating because it doesn't have easy search options such as event type so as a 20-year-old with 20-year-old friends I was mostly just browsing through nightclub events.

If you know of any websites like the one I have described comment below and let me know or, if you're a web designer with the skills to make this site happen let me know and we can work together to make something exciting.