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' The Digital Revolution.' Like it or loathe it there can be no dispute that it's changing the world. And not solely in a commercial sense; it's changing the way people think. As Antony Mayfield correctly pointed out, what's happening in the world of technology today is akin to the advent of printing presses. With texts churned out at comparatively lightening speeds, it became viable to include indexes within them which entirely shifted people's

In previous lectures there has been a great deal of onus put on 'user generated content', that no longer is journalism the domain of a privileged few, for we are all citizen journalists and the internet acts as a vehicle through which to make our voices heard.

It was refreshing then, for Kim Hollamby to offer some reassurance that we journalism students are not fighting agai

"It's all about being first;" the loose 'theme' of today's lecture. It would seem that The Telegraph website compensates for its comparatively small size by being the news source that "publishes fastest." In fact, during the 9/11 developments, the site published over 140 times in six hours. Impressive. But, as he slipped in as an aside, Richard Burton himself published a 'misnomer' which was later removed. "However," he quickly added by way of explana

So, yet another rousing 'the future is online' splurge of facts and figures. Despite what is becoming an increasingly familiar tune in regards to this 'exciting age of digitalisation', I admit that Pete 'we don't do tabloid shit' Clifton is undoubtedly our most engaging guest yet.

It was his discussion about the concept of personalisation that caught my atten