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Media is one of the fastest growing industries in Cardiff, with many organisations based around the regenerated Cardiff Bay. But are things as healthy as they seem?

Since the success of Russell T. Davies’ re-launch of Doctor Who and its sister programme Torchwood, Car… Continue

Or: no website is an island.



Something that can be understood by anyone who uses the internet even on a casual level the principle that is at the heart of the internet age itself: the web as a social network.

Ten years ago this took the form of mailing lists where parties with similar interests would gather to geek out about whether the Nazgul have usable wings. Now utilising interest groups is a multi-million dollar business.



Anthony Mayfield spoke to us on the issues jou… Continue

Following a tip off from Tim, I have signed up to Project Loudmouth, the beta form of a social networking site from EMAP. (I can be found under queeniefox) And they really do mean beta. Currently it's so beta that I can't actually see the point of it, other than it offers me yet another opportunity to fill in lots of little coloured boxes indentifying myself purely by what films I like.

However, even its current ropey state, it looks more i… Continue

At last, a bit of realism!

While I may not have been with him on all counts, in general I left Richard Burton's lecture with a great feeling of relief that I was not in fact, going mad. Burton - no doubt because of his old school print background - was unafraid to point out that online journalism has not yet taken over the world.

People still read the paper on the train. There are still a seperate desk in every newsroom where content is adapted for the web. Convergence has not… Continue

Well, that last hour was not really what I came to university for to be honest.

I expected that in the Nokia Trends Lab workshops we would be shown how to use the phones we had been told about all morning. In reality we were just given them with no instruction, and although once we had grasped the basic principles it was not excessively hard to film a one minute clip, most of our time was spent pressing buttons randomly. We could have achieved such knowledge of the phones on our own.… Continue