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Website Design and development. Category Archives: Events and Conferences. Its the second year of Sync Conf renamed NorDevCon this year and the organisers are already looking forward to NorDevCon 2015! The conference was at the Kings Centre this year which is nice venue and a bit of the main street but still pretty central to Norwich. Heroku – with Pete Roome. Pulp Prototyping – with Harry Harrold and Rupert Redington. Building Next-Gen Enterprise Mobile Applications – Boydlee Pollentine. Cyrille gave an...

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Fighting the pirates | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2011/09/02/fighting-the-pirates

Jump to main content. At the end of July the Motion Picture Association (MPA) won it’s High Court test case requiring BT to block Newzbin2, a website that sells indexes to illegal sites releasing pirate film and television programmes. BECTU and members of the Creative Coalition Campaign are pleased that one of the key means of the free downloading of the films and television programmes that we work on will become more difficult. Mr White is reported as saying Our users don’t wish Cleanfeed to work ...

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How the rich get richer | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2013/06/20/how-the-rich-get-richer

Jump to main content. How the rich get richer. It is up to us to keep the pressure on the Googles, Starbucks, Amazons, Barclays and the other internet giants and multinationals to pay a realistic share of the taxes that keep our society working. You could see in Eric Schmidt. Executive chairman of Google. A disconnect when he was confronted with the pitiful amount of tax returns Google makes. The goal does not seem to have lasted very long. Google is not the only company to be facing these charges. We ne...

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Content is king | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2011/12/12/content-is-king

Jump to main content. We all know that ‘content is king’. When you have the multitude of choices we now have for viewing on television it is the quality of the programme, the relevance to your own life and culture that keeps you viewing. Press reports for a long time now keep describing Channel’s 3 and 5 as ‘embattled’. The Euro crisis, new technologies, the bank crisis all make their advertising revenue base more like the shifting sands of a mirage than the financial system planners like to have. So the...

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BBC pension plan focus | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2010/08/19/bbc-pension-plan-focus

Jump to main content. BBC pension plan focus. I have been trying to get my head around the threatened changes to the BBC’s Pension Plan. Understanding pensions takes a lot of concentration, reading and discussing with those that know. Then when we think we’ve figured out how it is going to work for us, the ground shifts and we have to start again. A bit like having to learn a new mobile phone every two years but waaaay more important. I could keep going but it gets really depressing. We’ve had legal advi...

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The importance and benefit of the arts | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2010/03/26/the-importance-and-benefit-of-the-arts

Jump to main content. The importance and benefit of the arts. I’m pleased to see that the great and the good are arguing the importance of the arts to our economy in Cultural Capital in the UK, a Manifesto for the Future. Launched yesterday (25 March 2010) in London by an alliance of arts leaders from the Arts Council, British Museum and National Theatre. 8220;Well done to the Arts Council for launching the Manifesto.”. These are the arguments we can use to fight the cuts that are hurting us. Well done t...

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Face the music | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2013/12/19/face-the-music

Jump to main content. Working together. That is what I believe is key to a better working world. It is not shouting the loudest or arguing the most. It is bringing as many members to the table as you can to state their need for fair treatment. It is building a network of as many allies as you can find to share in your vision. To support them in their campaigns and to ask them to support us in ours. 8220;If you hear of bad practice in our industry tell your officials”. She described her first introduction...

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Working to live | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2011/10/26/working-to-live

Jump to main content. Minimum Wage. Living Wage. Family Wage. All terms about how much money we can get for our labour and how much money we need to live on. As you have probably heard or experienced, the National Minimum Wage is increasing to 6.08 in October of this year. But when does a new entrant become a skilled professional? This is part of the battle to ensure at least the minimum wage but BECTU’s minimum aim is a Living Wage. A skilled professional should be able to get a Living Wage for the hour...

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Citizen Murdoch’s vote | Christine Bond

http://christinebond.org/2010/11/16/citizen-murdochs-vote

Jump to main content. Citizen Murdoch’s vote. Rupert Murdoch gave a speech just a day after the Con-Dem Comprehensive Spending Review. The was the first Margaret Thatcher lecture and his first in the United Kingdom since his 1989 speech at the Edinburgh Television Festival. Mr Murdoch is quoted in the Guardian. Kicking off the discussions was a long and thoughtful article. In Politico.com pointing out that the four Republican Party hopefuls were Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mike Huck...