So, we finally got some downtime to sort out the long-promised overhaul of the internetsubtitling.com blog.

We're very worried about the Digital Economy Bill here at internetsubtitling.com. Aside from being based on almost entirely flawed and unjust principles, it also carries a lot of details with it which could seriously harm our business and others like it. With that in mind, and with parliament about to start a rushed and cursory debate on the bill this afternoon, I sent the following letter to my MP, David Clelland. You're welcome to use any or all of it in a similar letter to your own MP.

It's all gone a bit quiet. Forgive us, we've had an extremely busy winter. But we're still here - this blog is being slightly revamped at the moment and we'll relaunch it in the next few weeks....

Appearing at the Thinking Digital conference had a number of knock-on effects for internetsubtitling.com, the first and the most exquisitely badly behaved of which was that I ended up in the same room as Marcus Romer.

As well as being a director, producer and all-round theatre good guy, Marcus is artistic director at Pilot Theatre. Pilot is based at the York Theatre Royal, and specialises in pulling off all the challenging or crazy projects that furrow the brows of more mainstream theatres. It also organises Shift_Happens, a TED-style high-intensity conference which looks at the potential impact of digital and web technology on the arts.

  Ian Aspin and Erin Maguire were roaming around at Shift_Happens 2.0, interviewing and filming the unwary. They were kind enough to point their camera in my direction for a while....

We’ve been in the press a fair bit recently, which is always exciting.

Codeworks, the organisers of Thinking Digital, do a fine job of booking world-class speakers and whipping up hype beforehand, and as the conference began last Wednesday I was really hoping it would live up to its promise. In the event I needn’t have worried. Far from over-egging the pudding it turns out the pre-event hype was actually pretty conservative, and that the pudding was far eggier than claimed.

The Thinking Digital conference ran from 13th to 15th May, filling the Sage Gateshead with all kinds of wonderment and insanity. I was there for all three days, and now my brain is threatening to leak out of my nostrils a little bit.