Going digital for 48 hours is not as easy as you think…
Earlier this week my colleague Rachael Moon went 48 hours without using digital at all. To contrast I went digital for 48 hours and I can tell you it’s not […]
The dying Cries of the Hard Copy
Taking part in the ‘digital boom’ project makes you think about how digitalised we actually are. For me Christmas summed up how we have all transformed into digital beings. When […]
Could you #unplug?
When I first read this article by Baratunde Thurston, about how he left the internet for 25 days, I thought it was the best idea ever. Now I’m hardly a digital whizz, if […]
The Death of Print Media
Here at Digital Boom we have already discussed how entertainment is becoming increasingly digitised. Though it seems there are loyalists when it comes to books, this loyalty does not seem […]
Online dating… The good, the bad and the ugly.
Were you looking for someone to kiss during the countdown on New Years Eve? You’re not alone, recent figures show January as one of the busiest times for online dating […]
Could you get a job online?
Alongside the Digital Boom comes a growth in potential online careers. Business websites are looking for content writers. Magazines and newspapers have online teams. Marketing and advertising is very much […]
The Digital Entertainment Boom
This weekend I have been running a survey to find out how people currently consume the main types of media we consider to be entertainment. That means television, film, reading […]
Is social media erasing our history?
We wrote a post earlier this week about whether social media was making us less social…and after coming across this article from The Guardian, it is even more apparent that […]
Is social media making us less social?
I currently have 337 friends on Facebook, and a quick glance around my friends’ profiles shows that some have numbers close to 1000. Although the average Facebook user only has a median […]
Are E-books the future of written word?
One of the great changes in society that the digital age has brought about is the shift in how we purchase and consume various forms of entertainment from music to […]
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