Author Archives: Grant

Guest blog post live on Nesta's Destination Local site

<![CDATA[ For close to a year I’ve been working with my colleagues at the Herald & Times Group and independent charity Nesta to bring OurTown to life. The history of the project is documented here and here. On Friday, Nesta kindly published a guest blog post I wrote for them outlining the successes, challenges andContinue reading “Guest blog post live on Nesta's Destination Local site”

Sunday Herald Life app launches this weekend

<![CDATA[ This weekend sees the launch of the Sunday Herald Life app, the first public app I’ve released based on the Adobe DPS platform. Issue number one is available now, free of charge from iTunes: http://bit.ly/sh-life I’ve been using Adobe DPS on and off for a couple of years now and have been really impressedContinue reading “Sunday Herald Life app launches this weekend”

Wee Red Book app is now free!

<![CDATA[Last summer I was given the opportunity to develop my first iPhone app. It was for the Wee Red Book, the Evening Times football almanac that has been published since the 1920s. Today we’re making the app completely free for the rest of the 2012-13 season. Hit the relevant store link below to get yourContinue reading “Wee Red Book app is now free!”

Digital Street Paper project visits New York

This week, amidst one of the worst snow storms to hit the Northeast US, the Digital Street Paper project I’ve been working on with the INSP was the subject of one of the talks at the Brand Perfect Tour in New York. The INSP’s Maree Aldam talked about the challenges that street papers face inContinue reading “Digital Street Paper project visits New York”

My home-built arcade cabinet featured on IKEA Hackers

<![CDATA[A couple of months ago I put together a retro arcade cabinet using our old TV, an X-Arcade Tankstank and a Mammut Children's shelf unit from IKEA. I'm quite pleased with the end result – I didn't want it to look like a bulky, black 1980's arcade cabinet, but I did want it to feelContinue reading “My home-built arcade cabinet featured on IKEA Hackers”

My Nesta hyperlocal app featured in the Evening Times

<![CDATA[The mobile web/app I'm developing for Johnstone got some nice coverage in the Evening Times last week. Here's a grab from the PDF of the paper… And here’s the original copy… A SCHEME to bring communities together also aims to boost business, it was revealed today. The Herald & Times Group, the company behind theContinue reading “My Nesta hyperlocal app featured in the Evening Times”

Digital Street Paper project goes live!

<![CDATA[ A couple of years ago I had an idea to take street papers like the Big Issue into the digital age. Working with the INSP and David Craik we got buy-in from several street papers around the world and the Big Issue in the North agreed to support a pilot project. Our project receivedContinue reading “Digital Street Paper project goes live!”

EE's 4G pricing announced: First thoughts… no thanks!

<![CDATA[Yesterday, the UK's first 4G operator, EE, announced their pricing. As they’re the first UK network to get iPhone 5 compatible 4G LTE spectrum (and one of only two that ever will) their pricing will be of interest to many people. At first look, it really disappoints. I’ll ignore subsidised phone contracts for now sinceContinue reading “EE's 4G pricing announced: First thoughts… no thanks!”

Is this whole music policy report the result of a calculator slip?

<![CDATA[Today my attention was drawn to a widely-covered (link, link, link) MusicTank energy report with an alarming headline statistic – Streaming media could have larger carbon footprint than plastic discs – and, specifically, streaming an album 27 times could use more energy than producing and shipping the physical product. Wow, sounds alarming. Could that beContinue reading “Is this whole music policy report the result of a calculator slip?”