Author Archives: Grant

Winners announced in the heraldscotland.com Digital Business Awards

<![CDATA[For the second year running, I had the pleasure of chairing the judging panel for the heraldscotland.com Digital Business Awards. The awards, now in their third year, are going from strength to strength with more entries and more award categories than ever before. The awards ceremony, hosted by Catriona Shearer, was held on Thursday nightContinue reading “Winners announced in the heraldscotland.com Digital Business Awards”

Great Scottish Run + Facebook: An experiment in crowdsourcing metadata

<![CDATA[The Great Scottish Run took place on Sunday. Two races – a 10K and a half-marathon – happened under this banner and as always the Herald & Times photographers where there to capture the action. As in previous years, we ended up with thousands of photographs. And, as in previous years, we made hundreds ofContinue reading “Great Scottish Run + Facebook: An experiment in crowdsourcing metadata”

How to access the Kingston Wi-Drive from *any* web-enabled device

<![CDATA[The Kingston Wi-Drive is a new kid on the storage block. Aimed at providing extra storage to iOS devices, it pairs a wireless SSD storage gadget with a free iPhone app to double the capacity of your Apple handheld. I’m currently writing up my review of it for The Herald. What they don’t tell youContinue reading “How to access the Kingston Wi-Drive from *any* web-enabled device”

First thoughts on Google's Page Speed Service

<![CDATA[I'm currently Beta testing Google's new Page Speed Service on my site. It’s basically a transparent page content optimiser and CDN which aims to speed up delivery of sites to end users. This could be a huge deal for anyone who, like me, hosts their site from home. Hosting a personal site from home isContinue reading “First thoughts on Google's Page Speed Service”

ABCe audit figures released: heraldscotland increases audience by over 60%

<![CDATA[Great news today from ABCe… year-on-year we've increased traffic to heraldscotland.com by over 60%. That's a massive boost, especially for a site that was already attracting over 550,000 unique users per month. The new figure of 893,000 puts us second top of all UK regional newspapers in terms of growth. I'm particularly pleased with theContinue reading “ABCe audit figures released: heraldscotland increases audience by over 60%”