| Name: | Bill Thompson |
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| Current Position: | Author and Journalist | |
| Current Organisation: | Freelance |
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| Previous Position: | Head of New Media Lab | |
| Previous Organisation: | The Guardian | |
| Previous Position: | Internet Ambassador | |
| Previous Organisation: | PIPEX | |
| Previous Position: | Head of Open Systems Training | |
| Previous Organisation: | The Instruction Set | |
| Background: | Back in the day I was working at PIPEX in Cambridge and wrting for The Guardian and other print publications on the side - in the day when there were only print publications. I ended up as 'Internet Ambassador' there, spending 94 setting up websites, hosting a cybercafe and generally trying to make the Net look cool. Ended up at The Guardian running new media there, and bounced out into a freelance life in 96 - where I find myself still. | |
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| Current: | Bill Thompson has been online since 1986, and has worked as a journalist and in the computing industry for many years. A former programmer and technical trainer, he now writes and talks about the internet and its implications, as well as advising people how to use the network effectively.
Bill was the first head of new media at The Guardian newspaper and managed the Nexus online think-tank. He helped to develop and later ran the Regional Arts Boards website, and wrote a weekly arts newsletter, Dispatches. Now he writes regularly for BBC News Online, and appears weekly on Go Digital on the World Service. He teaches online journalism at City University, London, is a research associate for the Work Foundation and an editorial advisor at opendemocracy.net. |
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