BBC launches online archive of the Listener magazine
All 3,197 issues of weekly title from 1929 to 1991 digitised, featuring writing from Virginia Woolf, Phillip Larkin and TS EliotGallery: images from the Listener archiveIt was one of the most distinguished titles in British journalism for more than six...
SXSW 2011: A crash guide to ‘awesome’
The only thing that's not awesome at SXSW 2011 is the overuse of this once lovely wordWith SXSW being perhaps the world's largest celebration of geek culture, we can't really be surprised that there's a whole lot of "awesome" going around. You hear it ...
Elevator Pitch: An online writing club? What a Quilliant idea!
The internet has enabled thousands of would-be writers to publish to the world, giving them access to a potentially global readership. But until the launch of Quilliant this month - say its creators - there has been no independent, UK incarnation of th...
Can Amazon turn ebooks mainstream?
Anyone unlucky enough to commute will know that dead tree media still rule the roost, as least on the nation's public transport. But ebook readers, including the odd iPad, are starting to creep in, along with mobiles, games consoles and even DVD player...
Google puts $1m into academic research projects for digitised books
A Google-backed research project is to map out the relationship between location and literature, visualising works related to a specific era or place using Google Earth.A joint project between the Open University, the University of Southampton and the...
App of the day: YouVersion’s Bible app
Price: Free
Store: Apple iTunes for both iPhone and iPad, Android Market and GetJar - the independent apps store which claims to be second only to Apple's iTunes in its volume of sales.
Features: The app offers 41 different translations in 21 languages and includes...
Microsoft’s imminent ‘social networking’ handsets
Never shy of over-exposure, Apple is due to announce the fourth generation of iPhone software on Monday but will have Microsoft hot on its tail.
Codenamed Project Pink, Microsoft will be announcing its first line of mobile phones. Until now, Microsoft has stopped at software but - arguably after letting...
Big Ideas podcast: The medium is the message