ARTICLEA water services regulatory body is letting down its Welsh customers by not recognising Wales as more than “a super-region”, a watchdog report has claimed. The report published recently by Consumer Focus suggested Ofwat, which is responsible for holding water companies to account in England…
ARTICLE Wales has the second slowest internet speed in the UK according to recent findings, despite Cardiff having one of the highest broadband speeds nationally. Broadband think tank Point Topic found 26.9 per cent of homes in Wales are unable to reach internet speeds of…
FEATURE With a new film festival on the scene and more movie investment than ever before, Cardiff’s film industry certainly seems to be moving up in the world. But how much further can it go? As the fate of a new film studio complex near…
Brand loyalty: get ’em while they’re young Once upon a time, before the internet took off, people would tend to stick with just one newspaper which they felt best represented their views. Buying six or seven newspapers would be too impractical (travelling by tube barely…
“We are the angry mob We read the papers everyday We like who we like, we hate who we hate But we’re also easily swayed” – Kaiser Chiefs “Media changes the dynamics of power” Scary words there from Antony Mayfield, Vice President of iCrossing, but…
My attempt to Facebook message someone recently became so frustrating that I was on the verge of dusting off the pen and paper and hand-writing the blimin’ message instead. What stood in my way? A group of pesky squiggly letters, that’s what. The reason for…
A few posts ago, I discussed the importance of SEO in making articles, blogs, etc more discoverable on the web. But there’s also an equally, if not more, valuable tool: links. Whereas SEO is the kid who shouts to get attention, links are the popular…
“Human beings are natural-born story tellers. When memories fail in old age, the stories are the last thing to go” – Daniel Meadows Stories round the campfire Stories are part of what binds cultures together. After all, storytelling was one of the first ways of…
Mingling with fellow journalists down the pub, or rubbing shoulders with potential contacts at a business dinner – all valid forms of networking but these days, it seems, the hobnobbing is being done online. Social networking sites and applications have created a wealth of resources…
Can citizen journalism coexist with traditional journalism? The short answer is of course, but it seems to me that this relationship has become more than mere coexistence – it is a question of survival, for both sides. Let me explain. Journalism, as we all know,…
What’s the best way of trying to lure as many people as possible towards this blog? High quality journalism perhaps? Dazzling originality? Or perhaps just a few popular keywords that will bump up my entry on Google? Ideally, I’d like to think it’s the first…