I am interested in the differences, if any, between blogging and writing.

Obviously, in a purely mechanical sense it's an arbitrary distinction, from a blogger's point of view, because people who blog have to write.

But, and here's what interests me, people who call themselves writers do not have to blog. Yet some do. Why?

This briefing looks at useful online resources for tackling issues of interest to local communities, including recently-published UK government guidance.

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I recently attended a Westminster eForum seminar about PR and journalism, where I met Dr Martin Moore, of the Media Standards Trust. In his 4 minute talk, Martin mentioned the Trust’s involvement in something called The Transparency Initiative. The Trust has teamed up with the Web Science Research Initiative for this grant-funded work. I caught up with Martin a few days ago and we discussed it.

Here’s the situation which, as either a citizen, a teacher or a blogger you will understand only too well. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between commercial and, for want of a better word, factual, content in the news.

This may sound rather odd. After all, news is news, right? Well actually, not necessarily. ...

I was inspired by a recent Westminster eForum event entitled Missing Discs and Mislaid Laptops to write the following article.

Why is it that disks, data and laptops appear to go missing with alarming frequency? Is it that there is a general lack of understanding about the nature of digital data, and how it is fundamentally different from the old paper-based approach?

You may find it useful to discuss the points made in this article with your students.

I was very saddened to learn today, from The Times, that Michael Marland has died. This is my own small tribute to him.

Following the example of one or two people I know, I'm trying out two new ways of increasing the conversation and communication potential of this website.

There was a live chat widget, and some video (Terry's Two Minute Tips"). Read on to find out more.