Auction Culture
I’m working on an article about how auctions have changed the way we relate to products. I found this somewhere on the web - wish I could remember where but it seemed pertinent without going far enough. Auctions work when the local information economy works. Without good information, you have lousy auctions. The fact that […]
Here Come Ole Flat Top
Why does John Lennon accompany every tribulation in my life? I love the old flat top line. He come grooving up slowly. He one holy roller. He got hair down to his knees. They don’t write them like that any more. In fact my oldest son still at home was telling me a day or […]
Irish Politics
When I think about politics it tends not to have a nationality. I guess a lot of baby boomers are like me. Politics was a set of ideas that evolved through a debating process that was mysteriously global in an era when we only had books to use as transmitters. No internet, no IM, […]
Inflation?
Inflation in Ireland is now running at over 5% or twice the European average, says this morning’s news. Still seems a modest figure to me, if you compare it with experience. I mean my car parking costs never go up by 5%, they go up 20%. Five years ago it was still possible to buy […]
And Another Thing
I got myself tied up in a debate over at Sarah Carey’s blog a few days back. Subject: should Gillian McKeith be allowed to sell snake oil. McKeith has a mix of legitimate and hooey ideas about how to be healthy through diet and supplements and she’s been under sustained attack from Guardian writer […]
On Holiday: Still, Time to Gripe
We came up to south Donegal for a bit of a break but the drive took six and a half hours so we were….broken, dishevelled, wrecks. Surprise surprise the sun was shining this morning and everything suddenly looked and felt better. It’s one of the miracles of Ireland.
Time for reflecting a little. A couple of […]
Don’t Discuss Technology
Gearing up for another Convergence Culture column, this time for March and it is on how artists are responding to mixed realities, I got talking with Nathaniel Stern, a US artist now doing a PhD at Trinity.
Though the subject of our discussion was supposed to be art we got onto technology and I referenced […]
My Diet Friends Offer
I have a couple of ideas for promoting My Diet Friends that I’m playing around with. We just negotiated a deal with Body and Soul Experience,a diet related holiday provider for a discount for My Diet Friends readers. The details are on mydietfriends.com.
My Diet Friends is actually a group blog put together with the same […]
Any Comments
I’m writing an article for the Irish Times to coincide with the Irish Blog Awards and I’d appreciate comments from anybody interested.
The line I’m thinking of taking is Irish blogging has had a great year, expanded in numbers, diversity and talent but has it all come a bit late? In the USA the blogging scene […]
IrishBlog Awards
I’m honoured that someone has gone to the trouble of nominating this blog for two awards in the Irish Blog Awards 2007. Many thanks. I’m nominated in the Best Newcomer and Best Technology blog sections, though I don’t think of this as a technology blog in the same sense that Tom Raftery’s is (and excels […]
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