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Me, on Techradar: In December 2009, on this very website, I wrote a very silly thing. “There’s no way any device, not even an Apple one, can live up to the hype the long-awaited Apple Tablet has generated,” I grumbled. Oops! Elsewhere on the site I’ve written a wee piece on the NGP, aka the… [more]
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Me, on the news that Intel has hired will.i.am as some kind of creative powerhouse: For the finale of last month’s Paper Clips and Metal Fastenings 2011 show, they wheeled out the pint-sized popstress Pixie Lott. “All the paper clips, they’ve got it going on,” she sang to a crowd of chubby middle-aged men, tears… [more]
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Me, at Techradar: Social media Chinese Whispers and thoughtless retweets tend to be more innocuous than tales of crazed gunmen, but they can still be annoying: a few days ago otherwise sensible people were retweeting “an actual letter that was sent to a bank by a 96-year-old woman”, a newspaper humour column that has been floating… [more]
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Before getting my iPad, I promised to dump my expensive newspaper habit. It didn’t really work, because I missed the serendipity of a printed newspaper. So I came up with a compromise. I’d get a daily paper again, but instead of the full-fat Guardian I’d get i, the abridged Independent. From tomorrow, I’m back to… [more]
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Sensible doesn’t mean timely – this should have happened about ten years ago – but at long last two major record labels have wised up: they’ll no longer release records to radio months and months and months before anyone can buy them. David Joseph, the chief executive of Universal Music, said: “Wait is not a… [more]
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Dave Pell: I think about a lot of things before I share online. But here’s one thing I never think about: The unthinkable. Daniel Miller didn’t think of that either. So he shared photos on Facebook and Flickr, wrote anecdotes in his blog, and managed his finances using Mint. And then his one year-old daughter… [more]
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Sad news. [more]
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If you haven’t heard, communications minister Ed Vaizey is asking ISPs to consider adopting an opt-in system for online porn. Essentially ISPs will filter unless you specifically ask them not to. Me, over at Techradar: There’s some awful stuff out there, and I don’t think kids should see it any more than I think The Human… [more]
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If you’re a parent you’ll know Oliver Jeffers: he’s the writer and artist who created the sublime Lost And Found. And now, one of his books is an iPad app. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, the iPad version is a digital delight. And as it’s about death, it *will* make you cry. The app is… [more]
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You know how I’m often to be found banging on about augmented reality and its potential for awesomeness? Check this out. It’s real and it works. Astonishing. More here. [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
