Catherine Bolsover's Page

One clear way to ‘capture’ Cardiff is to do so on film – and sights of film crews on the streets of the city are becoming more frequent. The TV and film industry has been part of the city’s media presence for a long time - HTV, BBC Wales and S4C have all used the city as a back

Search engines are curious beasts. Just the name itself conjures up either some kind of industrial monstrosity with grinding cogs and billowing steam that's working to find you what you want. Or in a slightly more surreal version, I imagine tiny internet imps scurrying up and down cables to find bits of information and scampering back with it... I don't think I'd really ever thought about how they worked or what they do. But this is what I spent most of

Shopping on the internet is a grand thing for those who hate mixing with the hoi polloi on the High Street. So thank you Kim Hollamby for introducing me to a new shopping friend www.trustedreviews.com. Somewhere I can go and peruse the many exciting electronic-y bits and see which one is the winner. Except, unfortunately, I am a sceptical person and never trust anything that outwardly asserts itself as trust-worthy. It's like a pub saying that it do

"Don't worry, there are jobs out there!" (um, if you don't mind working in advertising or PR for a few years just while we wade through the redundancies...) Thanks Richard.

That inspiring note aside, Richard Burton was a fun and informing guest lecturer, and something which endeared him to me - a proper hack.

He's never met a 2.0 journalist, which is great because nor have I. Sounds like a really bad sequel, or an upgrade of al

BBC News Online is 10 years old and has served me well through these years.

I remember using it for homework when I had to do projects on Japan and Nigeria in year 9 Geography. (The 'Country Profiles' that Pete Clifton spoke about sound like they would have done this job nicely...) When I tried my hand at worthy extra-curricular pursuits such as debating and