Saturday, October 6, 2007 Conor O’Neill has these tickets up for grabs for the Web2Expo in Berlin. This is the deal; the Irish (or Ireland-based) blogger who makes the best suggestion for an original Web Application with an Irish focus will win the tickets. Well Conor, as much as I’d love to go to Germany for that conference, if [...]
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 It’s that time of the year again – time to vote for your buddies in the Net Visionary Awards. The question on everybody’s lips: “How do Jacobs get the fig” “Whom should I vote for in all of those other categories?”. Even the all-knowing Michele is struggling with that one. As for the “Best Online [...]
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Monday, September 17, 2007 With the amount of sports on at the moment, I picked a bad two weeks to go to America. Hundreds of TV channels, including dozens of dedicated sports channels, and 90% of them show nothing but college football. In a country where 34.5 million people claim Irish heritage, I had expected it to be easier [...]
Thursday, September 13, 2007 The one stop shop for Irish politics on the web has just been relaunched . How it works: just install this plugin on your WordPress site and it will automatically link every time you mention an irish politician. I like the way it brings together so many different perspectives. Politics in Ireland posts whatever the [...]
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I had heard bits and pieces about somebody selling a vote for the Irish senate on eBay, and was surprised to see the coverage that it got in the Irish Times today. Dan was disgusted: I recognise that for a great portion of people the Seanad and all who sail in it are something of [...]
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It has been over a year since thousands of French tourists caused havoc on our roads as they emerged like lemmings from Cork airport in their rental cars, driving on the wrong side of the road. As they spilled precariously onto the Kinsale Road dual carriagway, hurtling towards the oncoming traffic (which was already agitated [...]
Head over to Irish Election for the latest updates as the votes are being tallied up. The site has really come into its own now, enhanced by technologies like twitter and mySay (allows you to phone up and leave a voicemail which will instantly be available on the web) which are made for times like [...]
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Zoe Conway’s website has been relaunched to complement her new album, the Horses Tail, which has been getting great reviews since it was released a few months back (including a nine out of ten from Hotpress). The album is for sale online, with some more samples on Zoë’s website. Note to all Americans: this would [...]
One of the best ways to hinder a cause is to promote it badly. I’ve just cringed through a bunch of videos on Blogorrah here and here urging young people to Rock the Vote. The idea is fair enough, and an initiative like Rock the Vote is an essential weapon in the war against apathy. [...]
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Most people laugh cynically when I say that I am not a geek. I have never seen Battlestar Galactica, I’m no good at electronics, and I don’t even know where that “smoke me a kipper” quote comes from. They just retort with the cruel wisdom: “any true geek is in denial”. It stings because despite [...]