I’ve talked about the world of blogging in past columns so I won’t bother with the detailed definitions here. (Quite simply, if you work in the online business today and don’t know what a blog is then either get informed or consider a career change). What is worth re-stating, however, is that blogs are incredible opinion machines. Bloggers love to chat and rant to the world at large about any

You don’t have to look hard to realise there are far fewer women in the IT industry than men. And there was no better contrast than the events of last Friday. Around 40 male hackers were milling around a secret London location, debating the latest developments. A short taxi ride away, a few hundred 11 to 15-year-old girls were arriving at the Science Museum to win prizes for building web

The hitch? You have to have a Windows machine for it to work, and the service is paid-for: