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Two years ago, Cardiff faced a waste nightmare. Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) figures revealed that Cardiff had the lowest level of recycling in the nation: just 11%, compared with a national av… Continue

Anthony Mayfield, head of content and media at Spannerworks, talked about two things: the emergence and blossoming of social networks, and the rise of Google as the internet’s search hound. Perhaps the most striking feature to come from the talk, however, was not which social website is big right now – anyone watching Myspace knows how quickly… Continue

Kim Hollamby of IPC Media gave us a number of important lessons - as well as giving a few key tips to having a great career - about the modern world of journalism. Perhaps the most striking of these lessons was the numerical relationship between the journal

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New technology brings potential for media on different formats. I bet no-one involved in journalism - even ten years ago - would have predicted the on-demand, mobile revolution that news has undergone since. Mobile internet has finally come of age with the release of the iPhone… Continue

In an age where anyone can be an instant hit on YouTube, is there a place on the web for good, old-fashioned story-telling? Yes, reckons Daniel Meadows, founder of Photobus and pioneer of Capture Wales, both initiatives
to bring digital storytelling to rural Wales. His goal is to give ordinary
people the chance to tell their story online using modern tech

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