On Saturday I attended my first TOWIB event. Initially, I wasn't sure what to expect. I'd listened in to some of the buzz from previous events and was intrigued that there was a blogging community forming. So, I bought a ticket.

Upon arriving, I was pleasantly surprised by the sight...

'Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge' - This was the slogan at the top of Wikipedia's blackout page during their SOPA and PIPA protest. And since then, proposals for both bills have been temporarily halted in an unmistakable response to the internet's outcry last week.

But as a few websites...

Social media is fundamentally about relationships. I mean it's about being social, right? But like all relationships, be it family, personal or work, there are those that are good, bad and just plain useless. The same applies to social media, especially between bloggers and PRs.

So when is the relationship...

It is quite safe to say that I happened upon the commercial side of blogging by accident. I had started King's Road's Rock! - on a whim, following an ice cream with a friend in Battersea Park. It was the summer of 2010 when I was thinking about...