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.

Those of us who use Twitter were pretty animated about Thinking Digital, generating a thriving backchannel via the #tdc hashtag which filtered and refined ideas alongside what was happening onstage.

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.