5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me
Donncha tagged me here to do the five things. Five things you don’t know about me. He doesn’t say they have to be interesting things.
I have five kids but only one daughter and she’s an unbelievable influence in my life. All men who have only sons should keep trying. Actually it was my wife who […]
Lap It Up, Miss USA: The Ads Are Also Short
Time is short especially at the top. I do want to point out one thing though Tara. You should read my blog. The most amazing things happen when I reference a celebrity in it, so much so that I’m thinking about including a weekly celeb watch.
What drives traffic other than names? I found out […]
Wasted: A Project or Two That Went Wrong
The presence of projects that go wrong is one of those modern events ever present in the lives of people like me - I assume also people like you otherwise you wouldn’t be here reading. In the old days economists measured productivity in simple terms. Goods went into the back door of a factory and […]
WRIPE at 600 and Building
It’s not exactly a YouTube rate of uptake but considering that WRIPE.net has so far had no publicity then 600 signed up users and about 75 a day coming onstream is cause for a little satisfaction before the Christmas break.
At IT@Cork we learned that sites need a significant update every three months so now it’s […]
New Blog Name - URL Still The Same
I decided last evening to change the name of this blog - though as yet I can’t see how to change the URL without losing every reader.
The change represents me knowing better what I’m talking about - though you could argue with that.
I mean I started the blog to try to understand how the media […]
We Think - A Book In the Making But…. Be Interested in Your Views
Charles Leadbeatter, an old Financial Times hack, is writing a book called We Think about the current revolution in media.
It’s one of those you can contribute too type books, a user-generated or user-assisted tomb.
I just left a comment there asking why we might want to find out about an area most bloggers know well […]
Podcasting in Ireland
I’ve had a few recommendations for the article I’m writing on Irish blogging and podcasting.
The Donal photographs. I also remembered Culture Sluts up in Dublin. Richard recommended copyblogger for some advice on improving blog copy. And Conor suggested, in addition to Donal: Twenty, Swearing, Donncha’s photo blog, Red Mum, That Friday Feeling and […]
Bloggers as Creative Content Providers
I’m writing an article on the Irish blogging scene and just got some good pointers from Conor over at Argolon. Just to cast the net a bit wider, it would be handy to compare what’s going on in Ireland with what’s happening in the rest of the world.
Any visitors have favourite content sites, specifically those […]
I Know The Spelling Sucks
Regular visitors might notice the appalling spelling on the site from time to time. I apologise. I do go round cleaning up after myself, sometimes days later.
A few years back I had to write a lot about nuclear war - invariably I spelled it “unclear”. Those were the days when typos worked to my advantage.
I […]
Can We Make Funders/VCs More Realistic?
Talking with Conor over at Argolon earlier today it occurred to us that VCs and other funders tend to take the view that project proposers will be unrealistic when in fact the reality might be that they are the ones with pipedreams.
What’s a realistic interpretation of today’s web? It is that there will be hundreds […]