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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”

Microblogging platform and anti-smoking campaign in same bird shocker

<![CDATA[I was walking to work this morning and spotted a poster on the back of a Glasgow bus. What caught my eye is that it had the Twitter.com bird on it. I thought "Twitter… advertising in Glasgow… on a bus? Pretty cool!". Then I noticed the ad was for something completely different — the GreaterContinue reading “Microblogging platform and anti-smoking campaign in same bird shocker”

Local launches today!

<![CDATA[Today sees the launch of s1’s first five ‘local’ sites, serving individual communities in Scotland. We hope to offer these sites to many more communities in future, but for now we’re focussing our attention on Bo’ness, Craigmillar, Culross, Galashiels and Millport. We hope the sites will become a place for people to discuss issues importantContinue reading “Local launches today!”

Clarification on ReadyBoost performance tests

<![CDATA[I recently received an email from John Marshall pointing out that everyone was reporting sequential write performance on my ReadyBoost compatibility chart, whilst the official requirements were for random write performance. I couldn’t get to the bottom of it on the web, so I emailed Matt Ayers at Microsoft, the Program Manager who’s in chargeContinue reading “Clarification on ReadyBoost performance tests”

Sony Bravia Glasgow ad goes live

<![CDATA[Sony published their follow up to the San Francisco 'Balls' ad today. Filmed in Glasgow, the new ad features a tower block getting blasted with coloured paint. It'll be shown on TV tonight, but you can see it online now at: http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/ To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with the end result. WhenContinue reading “Sony Bravia Glasgow ad goes live”