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Bill Thompson in Cambridge

Bill Thompson 6 October 1960 is an English technology writer best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online, his appearances on Digital Planet, a radio show on the BBC World Service, and his bouffant hair.

Born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, he grew up in Corby. He graduated from Cambridge University in philosophy and with a diploma in computing in 1984. He was a correspondent for the Big Byte on BBC Radio. He began to write for The Guardian in 1990, and in 1994 went to work there, setting up the paper's website. He left in 1996 to work as a freelance writer and consultant.

Publications

• Your Own Website Activators series (17 June 1999) Hodder Children's Books, ISBN 0-340-73650-X
• Your Own Chat Room Super.Activ series (21 September, 2000) Hodder Children's Books, ISBN 0-340-78482-2
• Homework Busters: How to Use the Internet to Be Top of the Class Internet @ction series (August 2001) Sterling Publishing ISBN 0-8069-3675-4
• To tag or not to tag on the BBC website
• BBC Webwise Column

External links

• Bill Thompson's personal website
• Working 4 an MP has technical support provided by Bill Thompson
• BBC article