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‘Buy gifts, decorate cake and help save a future life’ is just an average to-do list for many Cardiff adults this month as they agree to take part in Biobank Cymru.

This is the Welsh contribution to Biobank UK; a multi-million pound visionary medical project aiming to find out more about life-threatening illnesses by collecting information on the current adult generation.

A total of 500,000 participants across Britain are being invited t… Continue

Antony Mayfield, Head of Media at Spannerworks told us how 70% of online content will be created by individuals by 2010. However he also commented how this vast amount of content and information which is now available means that any poor content will just be ignored by people.

This, I feel, is a downside to this digital revolution… Continue

Ask any five-year-old about their career plan and “become a famous pop star” is likely to be a frequent answer. The reality is however that while many may attempt it in their lifetime, only a few will become true professionals in the eyes of the bigger passive audience who have no wish to release a hit single.

The same is true in journalism. As Kim Hollamby of IPC Media pointed out: “… Continue

Like many of my colleagues I had to smile as Richard Burton, former editor of The Telegraph online, opened the lecture with four precious words; “Print is not dead”. What a relief the past six years of my life have not been a total waste of time and money. It was beginning to feel that way sometimes.

Indeed I will agree the role of newspapers as a breaking… Continue

Sometimes the things I can do scares me. But then when I find out about the things I can do which I didn’t actually realise I could do, it scares me more.
I wouldn’t class myself as a technophobe. Not at all. I’m a regular facebook updater, news.bbc.co.uk checker and thanks to online journalism now have my own flickr, netvibes and ning account too. The amount we can do with the media and technology these days is quite amazing and makes you wonder what else will develop.
D… Continue