Today is my first opportunity to blog in my role as senior director of media services at TalkTalk, and what better way to kick things off than to talk about one of my great passions, and I’m sure one of yours too – music. I caught the bug back in my teenage years, my first ever live gig was The Scorpions and the first LP I bought was Devo. Thankfully my musical taste has evolved and I now have a collection of over 2000 CDs and 17,448 tracks on my iPod!
TalkTalk response to Lord Mandelson’s filesharing announcement
We’re dismayed to learn that Lord Mandelson is to press ahead with his ill-conceived plans to allow content providers to force ISPs to disconnect people suspected of illegal filesharing (speaking today at the Cabinet Forum event).
Bringing magic to kids’ desktops
It’s a fact of modern parenting that kids start using computers from a very young age.
As a parent myself, I know how children love to press buttons and play around with machines. I also know they seem amazingly adept at understanding and using technology, even from as young as three years old.
Government backs down on filesharing proposal? Well, not exactly…
Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw is reported to have announced that the Government has ‘watered down’ its filesharing proposals. “Rights holders will have to obtain a court order before punishing persistent offenders by reducing or cutting off their internet connections,” he told the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday. Great. A victory for common sense. A Government U-Turn. Well, maybe not.
Pass IT On . . .
Today is Get Online Day. As its name suggests, it’s a day of activities aimed at encouraging those who’ve never used the internet before, or only used it infrequently, to get online and begin experiencing everything that the web has to offer.