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I went to see U2 last night. They weren’t very good. Part of it was the sound – maybe it’s just me, but when I go to see a four-piece guitar band I quite like to hear the guitar and bass guitar – and part of it was that they seemed a bit lacklustre. Most… [more]
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Oh yes it is. The information superhighway, as pundits described it in the dark days of the 1990s, was going to change not just the way we lived and worked, but the way we thought. No longer would we languish in the darkness of dumb despair. The internet would shine the Torch of Truth on… [more]
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You know who, you know where: For one tenth of the money it would have cost to buy Twitter, Facebook has got itself some of the best brains in the social networking business – brains who are used to building things to a Google scale. [more]
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Why, you’ll have to read The Sad, Slow and Entirely Predictable Death of Friends Reunited to find out. ITV bought Friends Reunited in 2005, by which time it was pretty obvious that free social networking was going to be a big deal: MySpace was already attracting millions of users, and Facebook was catching up fast.… [more]
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I think augmented reality is ridiculously exciting. My brain crashed yesterday. I was sitting in the BBC, waiting to blab about gadgets, and I was next to a distinguished-looking chap who looked incredibly familiar. “I know him,” I thought. “I know that face.” But my brain wasn’t playing, and it was only when I asked… [more]
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Words on the Internet? I writes ’em! First up, what will we be able to watch on Sky TV when it goes 3D next year? 7.00pm BrunoSky Movies Premiere 3DYou know that bit where the focus group sees Bruno’s pilot for a TV programme? Remember THAT bit? Now you can see it again – in 3D!… [more]
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The real Steve Jobs’ liver transplant appears to have given Fake Steve a new lease of life: We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have microwave ovens and refrigerators and TV sets and everything else at the prices we’re paying for them. There’s no way we get all this… [more]
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Despite my ongoing cynicism about high definition TV, I’ve just upgraded my Sky box to a shiny new HD one – not for the HD content, but because I wanted more storage space (series-linking Waybuloo and Timmy Time takes up more space than you’d think) and the ability to record two things while watching something… [more]
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God, I love PopJustice. This is ostensibly about Shakira’s new album: We always find playbacks like this totally toe-curling. You’ve got someone who’s just spent a couple of years recording their (hopefully) incredible new album sitting in front of you and your fellow ‘scribes’, watching for your reaction to their new songs. But how do… [more]
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A great post by Eric Karjaluoto of smashLAB on the subject of web design celebrity: Don’t get me wrong; I believe in design and am a vocal proponent of it. At the same time, I sometimes feel that we too easily inflate the importance of what we do. We talk a good game with terms… [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.
