Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher has written for UK national newspapers including the The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times and magazines including The New Statesman. For the last seven years he has been a consumer technology columnist for The Irish Times in Dublin. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and The Industry Standard Europe and he has launched or relanched several media web sites. In 2000 he was nominated as NetMedia’s European Internet Journalist of the Year. In 2004 he was voted **‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’** by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 Mike was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry the UK by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club. He has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg, commenting on technology and new media. In August 2008 TechCrunch UK was named the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in