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Voting has opened for this year’s Irish blog awards. I’ve been nominated in the Best Business Blog category, pretty cool to be upside the likes of Pat Phelan and Krishna De (Here’s the full list of nominations). Voting ends on February 16th, so here’s the voting form.

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The nominations for the Irish Blog Awards have opened. The nomination page can be found here. It’s a tad annoying that you have to enter individual nominations rather than being faced with a page for each category. Edelman Dublin will also be sponsoring the Best Newcomer award at this year’s awards. […]

There’s been plenty of talk about digital music sales and the flattening of iTunes transactions of late. Nicholas Carr offers some good commentary as usual.
As an iPod user and iTunes user I see a lot of truth in what is being said. Despite owning an iPod for around three years now, I have […]

I recently purchased Ordinance Survey Ireland’s StreetSmart application for mobile phones and have been playing around with it. It has been pointed out to me that I could have used the Google Maps mobile application instead, but some of StreetSmart’s features appealed to me. Either way I desperately needed some mapping software because […]

Here’s some Christmas shopping ideas:
A pair of Powerizers (via tcal). Powerizers are spring loaded sportswear that will let you run at speeds up to 30 km per hour, make strides of three metres and up two metres into the air. They look similar to the equipment some athletes use in the paraolympics. […]

I’ve left Drury Communications to join Edelman’s Dublin office. Over the past couple of years, I’ve had fantastic opportunities and gotten to work with some great people at Drurys. After saying farewell to clients and a night out with my colleagues, I finished up last Friday week.
The only thing I won’t miss […]

Needless to say that it’s been a busy couple of weeks hence this website lying stagnant. Better get back to updating it often again, looks like I rank as the 29th most popular blog in Ireland. Not sure whether I should take that to equate as a failed boyband or an indie group […]

I’m looking for a recorder that I can record directly to MP3 so I can start podcasting. Does anyone have any recommendations that I can order straight from Amazon? I’ve looked at both of these (Sanyo ICRS700RM & Sanyo ICRS240RM), but don’t want to go splashing 200 bucks yet because there’s no reviews […]

Pat Phelan recounts a conversation with Keith Bohanna about the possibility of a new career emerging - a blog technologist. I’d have to side with Pat about it, a blog technologist sounds a bit like a Y2K consultant (remember those!) As my first year Computer Science lecture told us, Y2K consultant is a […]

Ended up on Today FM this evening off the back of a story in the Daily Telegraph about a new Rent-aGeek service. No not to offer my services, but to talk about how gadgets are getting too complicated and how little is done to help consumers understand to use the technology (Something I touched […]

The Late, Late Show is one of Ireland’s popular television programmes. Its current presenter, Pat Kenny, is sometimes criticised for being a bit wooden, hence his being called a plank.
Not everyone is turned off by his performance as one avid RTE fan can attest. In last week’s Sunday Business Post, Adrian Weckler wrote […]

I was on the Last Word on Today FM this evening to talk briefly about podcasting. I’ll throw up a link to the show when it goes up on their website. First time for me to wear the headphones in studio as opposed to a client.

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A friend, Morgan Roche, has just launched a new Irish business blog. Morgan is a kitesurfing instructor and extreme sports enthusiast. On the site, he’ll be discussing tips, basic tricks, safety and suitable equipment for beginners.
It’s ideal subject matter for a business blog because kitesurfing is so niche and it provides the perfect […]

I love a good quote. Why try think of the words to express yourself, when someone has said it better? More importantly from a communications perspective, a good quote can often encapsulate what you are trying to say in a few words, thus conveying your message more efficiently.
So I was delighted when I […]

Damien Mulley rightly points out the reason why Irish bloggers have gotten so upset over the fact that it@Cork received a cease and desist letter over the use of the phrase ‘Web 2.0′ in the title of an upcoming conference is due to the fact , “Irish bloggers couldn’t give a toss about web 2.0 […]

One.
It the rest of them to talk about it.
Supposedly blogs might replace traditional media. Realistically, blogs and other forms of social media will compliment traditional media.
However, you’ve really got to question that in an Irish context when the thing which has irked Irish bloggers the most since the Dublin riots is the fact that […]

Doing my usual trawl through Irish tech media websites and discovered that Damien Mulley, probably Ireland’s fourth most popular blogger (behind Doncha, Slugger and Twenty), has started to pen a column for Electric News.
This is the latest shrewd move by Electric News to increase traffic to their website. They recently signed a syndication deal […]

Inspired by Brian Greene’s photo below which highlights how much Ireland has changed over the past year, and after reading about a lot of related activity over the last few weeks - I thought I’d post my twelve days of a changing Irish society (More like twelve observations on Irish life at the minute […]

Today marks the first anniversary of this website. I found out the hard way when I discovered that my domain had lapsed and I thought that it had been hijacked. Drama over, but I thought I’d take a quick moment to reflect on the past twelve months.
Simply put, the site has been an […]

The Gardai have appealed for cameraphone footage from witnesses after this afternoon’s rampage by a stolen bus across Dublin. The chaos, reminiscent of similar incidents in the United States, left one person dead and thirteen people injured.
Whilst it was a terrible incident, I was a little taken aback when the officer in charge of […]

Just want to thank Tomasz Kozlowski for creating a new template for my blog. The downside for regular readers is that you have to see my ugly mug on every page…the upside is my ever encroaching baldness makes me look a little like a white Mr. T minus the beard.
The photo on the website […]

A recent post on the Hosting365 blog perked my interest. Ed Byrne, their new marketing director, pointed out that they are the only Irish hosting company with their own data centre and lists the benefits of this. He also threw out an invite to all readers to come in and check out their […]

For all the talk about how blogs, podcasts, etc are changing the world we live in, the media landscape or how we communicate with each other, what do we really contribute to society?
Let’s face it, I’m posting this from a 12″ laptop worth around €1000, with a Nokia N70 worth €249 in my pocket and […]

Ed Byrne has launched a new blog which will be well worth a read. He’s recently joined Hosting365 as their Marketing Director, hence the lack of posts on his old site. He will also maintain the Hosting 365 blog.
Ed has just announced the launch of a series of geek dinners in Ireland. […]

It appears some people are having problems posting comments. I think it’s something to do with my comments blacklist so I’ve switched everything over into my moderation list. Hopefully this should resolve any problems. So from now on, if your comment doesn’t appear, it’s probably stuck in moderation.