Since The Guardian broke the news of the extent of the News of the World‘s phone hacking, our author Peter Burden has been asked for his views on Sky News, BBC News, ITN, Newsnight, Radio 4′s The World Tonight, 5 Live BBC One’s The Big Questions (click here to see this programme on BBC iPlayer) and many others. He has also written an article for The Guardian, (click here to read), for Comment is Free on The Guardian‘s website (click here to read), and another article for the Independent on Sunday (click here to read).

He has also been interviewed or mentioned in the below articles:
- The Guardian, “News of the World phone hacking: MPs grill media”

- The Guardian “The biggest media story in years – so why the silence?”

- The Guardian “Masters of the dark arts”

- Yorkshire Post “Hacks and hackers hit the headlines”

- Book Brunch Daily (membership required)

Check out his blog at www.peterburden.net

EyeCycle’s very own Rob Ainsley has launched a new blog. In his announcement of its launch he wrote:

“Cycling in London has more than doubled in the last ten years – but looking at blogs and websites, you would hardly know it.

So I thought it was about time that someone started a cycling blog that was genuinely witty and fun to read; well illustrated; well informed; bang up to the minute with the issues; and, most important, refreshed every single day, giving you that regular office fix.

And who knows, one day that might happen. Instead, in the meantime, there’s my new blog ‘Real cycling’:

If you enjoy reading it half as much as I enjoy writing it, then I’ll enjoy writing it twice as much as you enjoy reading it.”

And if you missed it, he wrote the highly amusing and amazingly practical: 50 Quirky Bike Rides Around England and Wales. You should buy it and give it to a cycling friend.

Waseem Mahmood, author of Good Morning Afghanistan, is again showing us how the media can be used for good with his new project, Ye Hum Naheen. What started out as a song became a worldwide anti-terrorist movement, with more than 62 million people in Pakistan signing up. In his own words, Waseem explains why he decided to take action.

The inspiration for the song came from my children who were tired at the way a minority of misguided young people were vehemently putting forward a message of radicalization and terrorism that was at odds with what the majority of Muslims believe. It was time to re-address the imbalance, and from the smallest child to the oldest person, Yeh Hum Naheen sought to give a voice to the voiceless. [...] The objective of the Yeh Hum Naheen foundation is to build on the essence of Islam as a faith that promotes tolerance, peace and harmony removing prejudices within the community and amongst non-Muslims around the world.

The Independent has published an article about the phenomenal success of Yeh Hum Naheen, including an interesting interview with Waseem.

Thunder and Sunshine by Alastair Humphreys has been reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott, of the online book journal Curled Up With a Good Book.

Excerpt from Barbara Bamberger Scott’s review:

In an age when there are, in the older way of looking at things, no new frontiers, an adventure like this is a great achievement and no doubt an inspiration to others. There may be no roads untraveled, but there are still new ways to travel them and much to learn along the way. Humphreys is a hopeful person – there is no taint of cynicism or world-weariness in his writing. Constantly self-motivated, he had only himself to thank when he got up each day and cycled another few miles. He was nearly always treated with kindness and “nobody ever refused me water.” He concludes, “Don’t believe what you see on the TV; the world really is a good place.”