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Hoards of hyper-local bloggers descended on Stoke-on-Trent for the Talk About Local un-conference on Saturday 3 October ‘09 to share ideas, debate on the future of hyper-local and discuss common problems with a view to solving them. Sessions ran throughout the day in an informal (hence ‘un-conference’) nature – which meant anyone and everyone who had [...]

After Lord Carter quipped the hyperbolic title Digital Britain last week, new variations on his meaning have appeared in papers almost daily.
On the one hand, promises of faster broadband for everyone seem to be on the cards - with the aim of providing 27 million houses with 2 mbps connections so they can watch and [...]

Cardiff knitters are gathering across the city in coffee shops and pubs in growing numbers. I went to knitting groups Yarn and Yarn and Stitch ‘N’ Bitch to find out why the grandma of all hobbies is seeing a revival.




You may have seen them dangling from trees, wrapped around lampposts and draped over bollards across [...]

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In which Hank announces this year's project for awesome.

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Social networking is about deepening social interaction, not wiping it out.

Sums up the modern city twenty-something, no?

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Researching for my Christmas supplement feature on Toys, I managed to suspend my adult perceptions and re-enter the kingdom of kids through the visionary toys now on offer. 
 
As closet technophile, I was dazzled by the number of spangly pink laptops, robotic soft toys, and digiital personal assistants. 
These things were all around in certain forms when [...]

Are news consumers getting too demanding?
With pick ‘n’ mix news available online and new web tools to distribute news content, are readers demanding too much from journalists trying to meet their expectations? If you read a story online, are you disappointed to find no linked video or audio content? It is arguable that the widespread [...]