Arming myself with a pair of stocking-filler binoculars and a waterproof, I think I’m all set for The Great Look Up tomorrow night. More than 250 people so far are expected to turn up to the event in Guildford, run by the University of Surrey…
Galaxy collisions, solar flares and creatures which live on “frozen fart gas” – just a few topics covered in the Your Universe festival at University College London (UCL), run for the first time this year and which ended yesterday. Through a series of free talks…
Could Attributor sound the death knell to news content pirates? And could that extend to Google News, the Blackbeard of them all? Fingers crossed. Attributor, Roy Greenslade writes in The Guardian, “seeks to recoup a portion of the advertising revenue enjoyed by sites that “borrow”…
I’m almost sold on Newsmap, the site which could potentially be one of my fave ways of keeping up on the news. Almost, but not quite, down to it still needing a few tweaks before I’ll become a regular user. The site, which is currently…
Here’s a nifty site that could put an end to the days of humming tunes at bemused friends in a bid to identify that song that’s been rattling around your head for days: Midomi. If you haven’t heard of it already (and I hadn’t before…
Fax rage – the bane of the office worker The fax machine is dying? Bring it on. As Stephen Moss commented in the Guardian today, he was surprised fax machines even existed anymore. Sadly, my summer last year spent working as a receptionist proves the…
William Perrin talking about hyper local – a media law-free zone? So citizen journalists don’t need to know libel law? You might as well throw the hapless citizen into the bear pit with the defamation lawyers right now, in that case – I give it…
I’ve just read about a new interactive technology on the BBC news site which, from the looks of it, puts the Wii completely in the shade. It literally did make me go “wow”, it looks incredible. The technology, called Natal, was developed by Microsoft for…
ARTICLE A Cardiff cafe has served up top prize for Wales’s best ethical cuppa. Milgi Lounge on City Road, Roath, took the title of Wales’s Favourite Fair Trade Cuppa in an online poll run by the Wales Co-operative Centre. 20 independent local businesses across Wales…
ARTICLESuffering concussion, food poisoning and scarlet fever at three successive major tournaments would put most people off playing sport again, but that hasn’t stopped one young keen ice hockey player. Callum Buglass, 12, of Mendip Road, Llanrumney, caught scarlet fever while playing for England recently…
FEATURE Dafydd Wyn in action What does a Star Wars-loving, comic book-worshipping, self-confessed “total geek” dream of doing for a living? Directing sci-fi films of course, and Bafta Cymru winner Dafydd Wyn appears to be living that dream. A TV director by trade, Wyn, 43,…
FEATURE “You’ll never make it outside the valleys” was what Sean James Cameron grew up hearing. Now a director, author, producer, and all-round entrepreneur, Cameron has more than proved them wrong, and wants to help others do the same. Valleys-born Cameron defied those who said…