Bill Thompson, Technology Critic and Broadcaster

New media pioneer Bill Thompson has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984.

Formerly head of new media at Guardian newspapers, where he established the paper's first website in 1994, he writes a weekly column, the BillBoard, for BBC News online, a monthly feature for new internet users for BBC Webwise. He makes occasional contributions to other publications both on and off- line and appears weekly on 'Digital Planet' on the BBC World Service and occasionally on other BBC radio and television programmes.

Bill is a Visiting Fellow of the Journalism department at City University, a trustee of the Cambridge Film Trust and a member of the board of the New Writing Partnership.

You can find him online at http://www.andfinally.com/ or working in one of Cambridge's many cafés.