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August 30 2011Read more
'Your' Digital Journalism?
Is print dead? This has been constantly asked, re-asked and over-analysed during the last few years with the expansion of current media developments. However, focusing on the traditional newspaper’s death sentence precludes us from examining the real... -
June 24 2011Read more
The Internet: A Parallel Universe Without Rules?
The standout moment at last month's eG8 summit in Paris saw Nicolas Sarkozy offer a foreboding warning that the internet must not become a 'parallel universe without rules' - only days before David Cameron had been at pains to distance himself from t... -
January 27 2011Read more
2011: A Belated Preview
Glancing through the myriad predictions which are spat out every January (“The 37.5 Biggest Things in Digital in 2011!”), an interesting trend emerges – namely, counter-trends. 2011, say some commentators, will be the year that people turn off. The a... -
November 03 2010Read more
Making a hash of it: The (diminishing?) power of words
At the risk of sounding like an Edwardian school boy, I think Twitter is magic. I mean this in the supernatural sense (fitting, as it was Halloween last weekend). The mysteries of the internet have always struck me as evidence of occult intervention ... -
September 22 2010Read more
A note on social media
It is a truism to say that the internet has sped things up. One two-word phrase, coined just three years ago, has now pervaded popular culture to the extent that your gran’s probably heard of it.No, not Britney Spears. The two words are ‘Social’ and ... -
May 05 2010Read more
Contributions welcome
Creativity’s a funny thing. Not only is it often thought of as an intangible quality that is bestowed on a rare fortunate few , but we are somewhat used to thinking that those rare few work alone, or that they at the very least, call the shots. Creat... -
May 20 2009Read more
Arrr! Changing tides for internet piracy
2009 has been a truly dark year for the public image of piracy. And I’m not talking about Somalian pirates, but the issue of digital rights, specifically in entertainment. It’s estimated that piracy an... -
April 06 2009Read more
How well do you tube?
'Hi John, what did you do this weekend?' 'Not much - Friday night I stayed in, but on Saturday a friend was having a youtube party, so I had quite a late one.' Not true. No-one I know had a youtube party on Saturday, and the notion of a youtube par... -
March 25 2009Read more
Keeping control
So the media outcry about Street View continues. Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) today defended the roll-out of Google Street View to UK cities by saying that "We agree with the concerns over privacy... The way we address it is by allowing people to op... -
March 23 2009Read more
Game Based Learning
Fun end to the week at the Game Based Learning conference in the City of London. Highlights include a cabinet minister who actually gets technology and seems to want to support the industry (Tom Watson), the ever inspiring Derek Robertson from LT Sco...
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