The title of this post would immediately suggest I might be referring to the buying and selling of recorded music – but actually my work with the Manchester Jazz Festival this week has highlighted a very different area. UKFast is making a short series of podcasts from the festival and it’s a real eye opener [...]

The technology headlines are dominated this week by security issues. Specifically in the UK, the government has produced guidelines to educate on the issue of cyber-bullying while globally the latest Sophos report reveals that Asian spammers are more now prevalent that US spammers for the first time ever. The anti-virus companies are of course riding [...]

A while ago the Web was in the grip of robots. Take two of the classic web searches (no, not those two, this is a family blog) – consumer electronics and celebrities. I’d be searching for a USB powered keyboard warmer and the latest pictures of Brian Blessed, and all I’d get was a hundred [...]

Much to my relief and much like Pink, I’m not dead. Good day once more, UKFast blog fans. Voice over IP, or VOIP, is quickly gaining popularity. I have my ridiculous Captain Scarlet-style headset waiting at home, in order to talk to people half the world away about our respective brands of reality TV and [...]

An interesting question came up last week at the CIPR Northern Conference in Leeds. Julia Hobsbawn had just been talking about how new media has changed the landscape in terms of reporting news and the rise of the columnist within newspapers. The question was ‘We know journalists can’t do without PR, but can PR now [...]

The CIPR Northern conference last Thursday was full of great speakers and new ideas for the PR community – and the most resounding gong was for blogging and the new media techniques. The new media in this case is the myriad of ways that we can use the Internet to reach all our stakeholders and [...]

Have a look at some of the big stories about the Internet so far this week. Here are a few headlines and links: Rank outsider sues Google over zero score Music industry to sue Yahoo China UK lawsuit proceeds against Russian MP3 site Image-based spam on the rise Yesterday, I promoted the opportunity for people [...]

With the US reviewing the role of ICANN at the end of July, it seems we all have a very small window of opportunity to have our own say on who should run the Internet and how. Both ICANN and the NTIA – an arm of the US government’s department of commerce are illiciting the [...]