Passionate about technology, media and chocolate eclairs, I've worked in web and print for over twenty years and now run a digital media consultancy in Scotland.
Having lived in some of Scotland’s remotest areas, I have an appreciation for being digitally connected. I have a pretty decent ADSL connection in Forres, and I have a good mobile phone signal most of the places I visit in my local area. It can be patchy ‘out in the sticks’ but I never really feel ‘out of touch’.
When I went ’south’ for my holidays this year, I... 
Product launches are scary things. You spend however long perfecting your product, but there’s no test like putting it in the hands of the public.
Flipboard is a new app for the iPad that got rave reviews all over the internet on the day it launched. Some of the nicest things that have ever been said about anything were said about Flipboard. It’s a free app that scans your friends’... 
Foursquare has come in for a lot of criticism recently. It’s been branded a waste of time, another Farmville and various other unsavoury names.
It was also recently highlighted that less than 10% of businesses would pay to have their profile on it, casting doubt on its usefulness to the business community.
But I’m sticking with Foursquare, despite this display of negativity for the following... 
