Classic British comedy has often portrayed the working class in a favourably light with shows such as ‘The Good Life’, ‘Porridge’ and ‘Only Fools and Horses’.  Physical work, rather than intellectual delights, has always been attributed to such characters. Which may explain why during the London riots last year Clapham Junction’s Waterstones remained untouched by looters. The store... 

Back in the day of Facebook fans I became involved with a publisher who wanted to promote a new magazine they were releasing. Needless to say the magazine market is engulfed with various publications; to be niche allows tapping into small but potentially profitable audience. On the outset this factor set this particular magazine apart from the rest, only one competitor existed and they only published... 

Deciding to read Madeleine wasn’t easy. In many ways I feel cheeky to have said I’ve ‘read’ the book because I never actually managed to complete it. At the halfway point I had to put it down because the emotions portrayed behind the words represented a sadness only a parent could feel for losing their child, an emotion which all wish to avoid. Just reading the notes on Madeleine’s Wikipedia... 

Wired Magazine made a fantastic point concerning online privacy in their February issue by uniquely constructing front covers containing personal details aimed at some of their readers. Channel 4’s Benjamin Cohen was one of their targets.   Funny Facebook Update (Bit Rude!) Social Networks sit on a foundation of our personal data. Your very essence and life experiences are a currency which Wired... 

World Book Night 2011 has begun. The event was inspired after the success of World Book Day, an event where thousands of school children in the UK and Ireland receive book tokens. My copy of the book below is one of 40,000 copies of the 25 titles which have been printed for World Book Night 2011. Do the maths and it will reveal that 1,000,000 books are being shared this year between friends, family,... 

For any students reading this blog who are into their social media platforms you will soon discover that many companies have blogging, tweeting or ‘digg-it’-esque guidelines. As the world’s largest software company, Microsoft is not exempt from such guidelines. When you sign that dotted line on the contract you are not only promised work for that period, maybe a salary but also personal discretion... 

It was known as the Digital Economy Bill in the real world, #debill (now known as #deact!) on Twitter but from the 8th April 2010 bill became Act. If there were ever an example of parliament not listening then watching the progress of the Digital Economy Bill pass through the House of Lords, House of Commons, to then be granted Royal Assent has to be the pinnacle. The Bill has received much attention... 

It would be an understatement to say we are living in changing times, revolution has called and Rubert Murdoch blew the final whistle. Murdoch has said that there is a plan to release a News Corp e reader which will be in direct completion to Amazon’s Kindle. The Kindle e reader allows books, magazines and newspapers to be wirelessly downloaded directly to the device. Downloading of newspapers,... 

Ladies and gentlemen. As always thank you for downloading and listening to this podcast and indeed both past episodes as well. This episode comes with a bit of a twist. To honour the focus we are to make to content, free content, on the internet this podcast will be avaliable in the .ogg vorbis file format as well as the conventional .mp3 format. For those of you who are listening, rather than reading...