As a medium of communication, blogging has taken the world by storm. The question on the lips of most media savvy communities is whether our traditional media will survive the onslaught. Will blogs eventually kill conventional websites and newspapers? As a social Media Marketing tool, blogging provides endless opportunities at the least cost.

Suffice to say blogs are cool; they are a techie thing.

I generally refuse to by music from supermarkets. Not because I like paying the extra fiver in HMV or my nearest retailer, but because of the detrimental effect supermarket CD shopping has on the industry and record shops - especially the independents who simply can't afford to price albums under ten of your English pounds. That, however, is another article entirely.

With house prices falling all over the country, maybe now would be a good time to make a move onto the property ladder. In reality, the credit crunch has priced some first time buyers out of the market, unable to secure a mortgage or afford the high rates that are being offered. Yet, if funds can be secured then it is a buyers market, with many vendors having to accept offers far below their asking price.

Carlos Alberto Perreira, former coach of the Brazilian national team, has stated that the reason why the England National team is so poor is not because there are so many foreign players in England, but it's because there are so few English players in other leagues. So does that mean the reason Brazil are so successful is because of their numerous exports? Last year, 1,085 Brazilian players were transferred to places as diverse as Vietnam, Qatar and the Faroe Islands, according to the Brazilian Football Confederation.

Since its original creation and subsequent commercial introduction in the late 1980s, the internet has grown exponentially at an almost limitless speed. The internet, as its predecessors television and radio, is becoming the most dominant media for new marketing techniques. As video killed the radio star, will the internet kill the TV star as each new media consumes its predecessors.

Holiday Extras have launched a new video starring Paul Kaye of Dennis Pennis fame. The British star, who you may also know from films such as 'Blackball' and 'It's All Gone Pete Tong' and from BBC TV series 'Two Thousand Acres of Sky', plays Seamus Murphy who runs a rather dubious airport parking service.

Murphy's foul appearance matches his service practices in this humorous take on the pit-falls of trusting your car to a parking company without the proper credentials.

Writing articles for the internet is simple. The reason so many people use sites like article marketer to publish their works is also just as simple. With every article you publish, the author section can include links to your site and therefore is a great way of building backlinks.

Backlinks are important to a site as they provide ways for people to access your site, as well as showing the search engines that your site is relevant and current.

The FTSE 100; it's something we've all heard mentioned with increasing frequency as news and media focus on the economy, but do people really know what it is? An abbreviation of Financial Times Stock Exchange, the FTSE (or footsie as it's pronounced) 100 is a share index of the 100 most highly capitalised companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

For anyone that has built their own website for personal or business use, there is one skill that will elevate you above the rest of the websites out there. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the cheapest form of online marketing and can often be the most effective.

SEO is used to ensure a website is well-positioned in the search engine when a potential customer is looking for the product or information that the site provides.

It wasn't my health, it wasn't my family, it wasn't my friends, it wasn't my fake fur coat from Topshop.

But I loved my job. And when I lost it, if my world hadn't fallen apart it had certainly been rocked to its foundations.

Yet the good things which have come out of what was at first a terrible shock have been quite astonishing.