Archives for October, 2006
I came across something yesterday that may develop into quite a neat little project… 365 fewer belongings The ‘give it away girl’, based in Seattle has decided to blog about giving away/selling one of her possessions every day for a year… I think it’s going to be quite interesting if she keeps it up. [...]
For one of those days when i can’t be bothered to write a proper post… Julian Beevers amazing 3D chalk pavement art – I’ve been mailed a lot of his images over the years, but this is the full gallery – I’d love to see some of this in real life… The concept of cosmic ordering – [...]
One of the undercurrents running through the day-long “Blogging the Election” conference in Dublin is a follow-on working group for elected officials. It’s a little like merging “Writing for the Web” with “Effective Blogging”. Anyone who reads blogs appreciates blogs with content more than blogs with pretty adornment. Sourcing quality content and then presenting it [...]
Simon McGarr is one of the few lawyer/solicitors out there that understands the law relating to bloggers and libel. The law varies dependant on whether bloggers are counted as editors, publishers, content owners etc… As soon as you moderate comments you become an editor of content published by others. You might be the publisher as [...]
Slugger O’Toole is also liveblogging today. Tags: IrishBlogCon IrishBlogCon1 IrishElections2007
Guido Fawkes starts by telling us that he carries an Irish passport, why does everyone want to be Irish?? He started in Sep 2004, with a mission to make mischief and be a 21st century court jester, basing his image on a “Guy Fawkes” style character, aiming to disrupt the British Parliament. Guido’s talk was aimed towards [...]
Politicians who blog, chaired by Suzy Byrne brought us three blogging politicians; Damien Blake, Letterkenny Town Council Member Ciarán Cuffe, TD for Dún Laoghaire Dominic Hannigan, Meath County Councillor Damien, spoke about how he has blogged for the past 18 months, and how it proved useful during his term as mayor of Letterkenny. He tries to be open [...]
So why are we here today? Why blog the election? The Blogging the Election Conference kicked off today in the Digital Exchange with Richard Delevan (Business Editor of The Sunday Tribune) posing that question to the crowd. I answered with, to me, the most simplistic answer – “because we blog everything�. But really, why bother? [...]
I love my Off the Mark cartoons, I have a daily calendar that I treated myself to this year. Spotted this one last week and just had to share it!! © Mark Parisi www.offthemark.com
So it’s all over the news this morning that Ryanair has launched a takeover bid for Aer Lingus just over 1 week after it was floated. They’re offering a very reasonable markup on the current share price, and I have to admit, I’d take it if I was a shareholder. We mustn’t forget that [...]
A few interesting things that caught my attention this week while surfing around the blog-o-sphere… Spotted on the invisible Mr Mulley’s blog: Glass bridge for the Grand Canyon – A phenomenal idea for the Grand Canyon, when you’re there you have an irresistible urge to get close to the edge and a few people have gotten a [...]
‘Cos if you’ve been sitting on the throne for a while, then your legs might fall asleep…. And if you try to stand up, then they might buckle under you… And you might try to grab the towel rail for support… And the towel rail might come away from the wall…. And you’ll need to spend Saturday doing DIY… (Couldn’t [...]
In a similar vein to my presentation at BarCamp last weekend, I found an article this week over on “back in skinny jeans” that explains RSS the ‘Oprah’ way. It’s a really clear guide that would be perfect to give to a non-technical person of any age, nevermind your granny – one of the [...]
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