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.
In the real world, the Boston Globe is a hard-hitting broadsheet newspaper. It is the largest circulation title in New England and it has, for a long time, had a website that delivers content to an online audience.
Last week, it was itself in the news for redesigning its website. So what? Websites are being redesigned every day, that’s not a story I hear you say.
But what the Boston Globe has done... 
My prediction for 2011.
Mobile web will become ubiquitous
I can retrace predictions back to 2000 that each successive year was going to be the ‘year of the mobile web’. Yet it has never been more than a glint in the eye of a few geeks. This year, it WILL happen.
How do I know this? Firstly, the mobile web could never have happened without capable devices. But just what is capable? I’ve... 
A hyperlocal news blogger has turned the print-to-digital convergence model on its head by publishing a print version of his blog. (Guardian: Hyperlocal blogger expands into print publishing)
In a complete reversal of what is happening elsewhere in the publishing industry, where many newspapers are battling against dwindling advertising revenue and circulation figures, an entrepreneurial blogger could... 
The picture Marmaduke Grimwig and Co wanted for its website.I love the web. I love the way it connects people whose paths might never cross.
About a month ago, I was pointed to a website via Twitter that stuck in my mind. It was Marmaduke Grimwig and Co, a marketing company creating ‘unique brand experiences’. At the time I remarked to myself that it was a clever piece of marketing and design,... 
