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It’s probably fair to say that when I decided to do a story on Real Bettws, the amusingly-named football club for young people in the Newport estate of the same name, I thought I knew what I was getting into. After all, Chairman Nobby Woodcock was named

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...yes, another one of my blogs starts with an appalling rip-off of a song lyric. Though in my defence, as this screenshot shows, the wonderful people behind Civilization III, one of the greatest games of all time; did get in before me here.

Anyway, I digress. Antony Mayfield - a historian like myself - was in town to tell us about the great media revolution that's going on as we speak. Now… Continue

My title is probably a bit unfair here, as Kim did actually come out with a number of very relevant points interspersed with some slightly annoying phrases like 'success today does not equal success tomorrow' and 'failure happens faster'.

Whilst they're probably correct, random corporate clichés REALLY annoy me and probably stopped me hearing what he had to say for at least the next minute, so enraged was I.

Having said all this though, one thing I did like was the 1:10:100 rul… Continue

With apologies to the Stereophonics, and also you the dear reader, the above is the title of this week's blog purely because the guy's name was Richard Burton, which I found amusing.

So anyway, did anything Mr Burton have to say compare to the work of his (more) famous namesake? Well, in something of a shocking revelation considering the… Continue

...head of BBC News Interactive until tomorrow, and probably the most lucid guest we've been treated to so far! In fairness to him, the f**k-o-meter was stuck at a decidedly mediocre 5 counts by the end of the lecture and another of his statements, 'we don't do any of this tabloid sh*t', was, I thought, entirely valid.

In fact, I would go so far to say that Pete was probably the most engaging and interesting guest we've had so far. Clearly some of this is down to the fact that he's obvi… Continue