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Over the years Cardiff has built a reputation for being a fantastic host city for international sporting events, from football and rugby to cricket and motor sport.

1.25b people online throughout the world, 400m using social networking sites, and 112.8m blogs. The web is massive. Really massive.

And apparently, although we don't know it or notice it, we're in the middle of a revolution. The world is changing from closed channel media to open access networks - the most complex of which is the world wide web.

It's so complex that people like Anthony Mayfield, Head of Content and Media at Spannerworks are really useful. Mayfield is an expert i

Kim Hollamby, IPC Media's digital development director offered some advice to the roomfull of aspiring journalists in the latest of our guest lectures.

This was the first magazine-based perspective that we'd had in the entire term, and it was interesting to see how this side of the media are using the internet and online journalism for their benefit, as opposed to newspapers or broadcasters.

Hollamby told us about the 1:10:100 Rule - something which shows just how interactive th

Richard Burton’s lecture showed just how much of an opportunity the World Wide Web has created for journalism. As editor of www.telegraph.co.uk, he focused on issues of convergance within newsrooms and the different ways that we can now publish stories and information.

He told us that the Telegraph’s website published 148 stories in six hours on 9/11. This startling amount of information being uploaded in such a short space of time shows just how far the technology has allowed journali

The second in our series of guest lectures saw the head of BBCi, Pete Clifton talk of the challenges and changes facing the BBC over the coming months and years. The recurring theme; this word ‘personalisation’.

It is, according to Clifton, “a big deal”. One which the BBC is investing a lot of time and effort into getting right. He told us that