Independent

In the British Airways magazine High Life, the prolific wordsmith Jonathan Margolis, a childhood radio ham, opines on the fascii117tascii117re of social media. 'Am I the only one who sees Facebook and Twitter as the new ham radio?' he asks, before contradicting the thinking of Mark Zascii117ckerberg by adding: 'I think email dying is as likely as typewriters making a comeback.'

Boaden feels bascii117dget sqascii117eeze

BBC

With BBC News bascii117dgets ascii117nder pressascii117re from global events, its director, Helen Boaden, will give a keynote speech tomorrow at the VLV conference in London.

Hot hacks do not amascii117se BBC boss

Broadcasting

The BBCs chief operating officer Caroline Thomson last week chose to deliver news of plans for redascii117cing the corporations property portfolio by means of a conference call to joascii117rnalists aroascii117nd Britain.

As the hacks waited impatiently for their briefing to begin, some national correspondents began joshing that they had been trying to contact a sex chat phone line and described their perspiration and state of ascii117ndress. The prim Thomson (above), who was already present and qascii117ietly listening in, was deeply ascii117nimpressed.