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Walking into Cardiff’s Buffalo Bar on the second afternoon of Sŵn festival 2007, Saturday 10th November, you would have been forgiven for thinking that this event had been established years ago. The crowd was pa

Kim Hollamby's lecture, "The professional journalist in 2008 - dinosaur or essential survivor?" brought up two important points which were a welcome bolt from the blue. The repeated talk of user-generated-content this term has made me feel more like a user guiltily masquerading as a journalist than a journalist using the users. Today we were co

The message that every lecture we have had so far this term has basically been that media is making an inorexible move towards the online market. I think Pete Clifton's lecture summed this up well, both in its implications for us as journalists and in its implications for t

Daniel Meadows’s lecture today - "Digital Storytelling and Understanding a Citizen Media" – made me truly think. It wasn't just the content of the films, which were admittedly touching, but Daniel's own manner which was surprisingly involved. When he talked about big media as stone bastions on gateposts, Daniel seemed like he really meant what he was say

For my Capturing Cardiff assignment, I propose to look at the rise of Cardiff as a major UK music venue through the upcoming Swn festival. The festival, hosted by Huw Stephens, showcases many bands in verious Cardiff venues. It is the first of its kind, finally marking out Cardiff as a major player on the UK music scene.

I wish to examine the way Cardiff has established itself as a home of great bands and how it impacts on the rest of the UK. Has t