Jake Grimley

we’re breaking into small teams of three (two programmers, one designer). We’re keeping the teams intact for two months at a time. During those two months, the teams will work on four separate iterations, two weeks each.

Does the work you are being shown contain your favourite colour? This is important. You can never truly love work that isn’t the right colour. Don’t worry about upsetting the creatives - they can just change colours.

Tweets are like the air. Anyone can do anything like to them, including quoting them with or without your permission. If an enterprising company wants to take something you said on Twitter and slap it on a tee shirt, they may do so. If a gent of the disturbed persuasion wants to engrave your tweet into a 600-foot swastika, he may do so.

The corporation’s web pages are to be halved, backed by a 25 per cent cut in staff numbers. Its £112 million budget will also be cut by 25 per cent. It is also pledging to include more links to newspaper articles to drive traffic to the websites of rival publishers.

The creative industries have long been the darling of the public sector, with local councils, the regional screen agency, Screen WM, and the regional development agency, Advantage West Midland (AWM), singling them out for special investment and support. But the sector – which spans the worlds of media, digital marketing, music, video games and film – is likely to face a very different post-election reality, and is particularly vulnerable given the large sums of public money currently channelled into it and the imperative on both sides of the political divide to make cutbacks.