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The Sŵn Festival is entirely new to Cardiff. The reasons why bec

Kim Hollamby gave the lecture I have been waiting to hear over the past three months. The one that looks at the modern abundance of user generated content and says, “…and?…”

We’ve been having big fat juicy warnings about how our careers are going to be so much “fun” because we haven’t got the first bloody idea how modern media is going to pan out.

Kim is a man with a natural

For me,Peter Clifton's basic message in this lecture was that immediacy and the race to be the first in running the story is the driving force behind the so called “digital revolution”.

I’m all for it… at 11 o’clock, George W. Bush’s correct IQ test results are found and at five past the hour the whole world can know about it in three hundred different formats… Fantastic!

Daniel’s point was to show that the digital revolution is in full swing and modern day journalists should be prepared as there are about 6 billion new kids on the block (a terrifying concept if taken literally – What are New Kids On The Block Doin

Those who know me know that I can be a bit cynical so I apologize in advance. That said, the "can be" means that there are some things I can greatly appreciate. Daniel Meadows' recent lecture
has left me between a rock and a hard place.



Daniel spoke about how technology is shaping the modern world, and it is; we'd
be naive to think otherwise. However, in arguing his point, I feel he
over looked one massive factor of journalism which I shall reveal later
(perhaps i