All posts in Digital Media

Kirkpatrick to ‘talk digital’ and the upcoming referendum
March 15, 2013

THE use of social media in the upcoming Scottish independence referendum is to be discussed...

My Media Day: Paul Hineman, freelance TV producer/director
March 15, 2013

PAUL Hineman is a freelance television producer/director and has run his own production company since 2008....

Media Book Review: The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr
March 13, 2013

GILL BOOLES reviews The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr… REMEMBER The Tomorrow People? Well, it seems...

Local newspapers group launches online TV channel
March 12, 2013

A LOCAL newspapers group has created its own online TV channel, as an extension to...

Media Movers: Andrew Vipond, Neil McIntosh, etc
March 4, 2013

WELCOME to Media Movers, reporting the latest moves within the Scottish media, including promotions and...

Sunday Herald to launch lifestyle app
March 1, 2013

A ‘LIFESTYLE’ app is being launched this weekend by the Sunday Herald newspaper. Says the...

New, Glasgow-based online TV network goes for ‘bite-sized programming’
March 1, 2013

A SIX-channel online TV network launches today in Glasgow, offering ‘bite-size programming’, designed for people...

BBC Online and ‘Red Button’ appointment for McIntosh
February 28, 2013

THE BBC is reporting that Scots journalist, Neil McIntosh, has been appointed managing editor of...

In My Opinion: Craig McGill: On what newspapers could have done to avoid being hit by Google
February 27, 2013

IT’S not that long ago I was arguing how advertising teams in the media weren’t...

Here’s a Tip for You: Your Twitter feed as a rolling information source on your Mac screen
February 26, 2013

IN other words: How to install the official and free Twitter app on your computer...

Edinburgh students set themselves 24-hour magazine challenge
February 22, 2013

THE challenge is to design, produce and publish an online magazine within 24 hours. And...

My Top Ten: Alasdair Reid, senior sportswriter
February 22, 2013

MY Top Ten invites media practitioners to identify their top ten websites, apps, software tools...

In My Opinion: Alistair Duff: Is electronic punditry the future and should we welcome it?
February 22, 2013

MEDIA apocalypse, but when? And after death, what kind of resurrection? A new study at...

In My Opinion: Ellen Arnison: Twitter tips for journalists
February 21, 2013

IF you’re a journalist and not using twitter, then you should be. It’s a great...

Conference to consider the future of the Scottish media
February 20, 2013

THE future of the Scottish media is to be the subject of a day-long conference,...

In My Opinion: Mark Gorman: One year in and Edinburgh’s creative economy is ‘oxygenated’ by Creative Edinburgh
February 20, 2013

THE digital, media and creative industries are estimated to be worth £6 billion a year...

My Top Ten: Kayt Turner, group magazines picture editor, Scotsman Publications
February 19, 2013

MY Top Ten invites media practitioners to identify their top ten websites, apps, software tools...

In My Opinion: Nick Clayton: How I wasted my working life on social networks
February 15, 2013

WHEN I moved to Ibiza nearly nine years ago, I thought online social networking was...

Several Scots entries make the Celtic Media Festival shortlist
February 14, 2013

SEVERAL Scots entries have been named in the shortlist of the annual celebration of ‘Celtic’...