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No jargon, people who want to code come from all walks of life

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* Blazing a trail based on empowerment through knowledge of code, Kathryn Parsons is co-founder of Decoded, teaching anyone to code in a
day. Little Grey Cells peers inside the mind of a 2012 digital mover and shaker.

Contrary to popular belief people who want to understand how to code come from all walks of life…  

We have had students, teachers, politicians, entrepreneurs, brands, CEOs of FTSE 100 companies…we even had a very well-known Hollywood director get in contact recently (his latest film is going to be about hackers!). Code is not the preserve of a select few, it is a creative and strategic skill too. Continue reading →

Little Grey Cells #4… No jargon, people who want to code come from all walks of life

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* Blazing a trail based on empowerment through knowledge of code, Kathryn Parsons is co-founder of Decoded, teaching anyone to code in a
day. Little Grey Cells peers inside the mind of a 2012 digital mover and shaker.

Contrary to popular belief people who want to understand how to code come from all walks of life…  

We have had students, teachers, politicians, entrepreneurs, brands, CEOs of FTSE 100 companies…we even had a very well-known Hollywood director get in contact recently (his latest film is going to be about hackers!). Code is not the preserve of a select few, it is a creative and strategic skill too. Continue reading →

Hollywood dumps critics for (surprisingly viable) Twitter ‘experts’

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This weekend The Hangover Part Two is expected to be the first Hollywood comedy to take $100 million on its opening weekend.

The producers of the film seem surprisingly confident about it, especially in the face of tepid reviews from the world’s critics. But the age of the critic has been dead for many years as potential film-goers prefer to look to their peers for the quality of a movie. Continue reading →

Hollywood dumps critics for (surprisingly viable) Twitter 'experts'

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This weekend The Hangover Part Two is expected to be the first Hollywood comedy to take $100 million on its opening weekend.

The producers of the film seem surprisingly confident about it, especially in the face of tepid reviews from the world’s critics. But the age of the critic has been dead for many years as potential film-goers prefer to look to their peers for the quality of a movie. Continue reading →

How Marilyn Monroe wrote the first celebrity-endorsed Tweet

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Unless you’ve been hanging out in North Korea or have been more occupied with finding a hiding place within the labyrinths of Benghazi, then you’ve probably heard about new Twitter king Charlie Sheen and his Joaquin Phoenix-like ‘breakdown’.

The aging actor has been cavorting around social media this week with 25 Tweets and a following of almost 1.5 million followers, but his management’s approach to saving their client’s career through Twitter has been interesting. Continue reading →