Now my dad has started commenting on my blog - so that’s good because I hate telephones (I’m one of the non-mobile phone carrying public). I can now transfer my news across the waters of Galway Bay to my parents’ home in Fanore via my blog, so no more holding a silly handset to my ear and getting bored or impatient or angry or all of the above. I wish 
Anyway, this reminds me of a blog cartoon I used in a lecture I gave on blogs and the Semantic Web two weeks ago.
Archive for April, 2005
As boards.ie moves to a new IP address, I’ve had to update the POTB IPs. This may take a few hours to propagate.
On the Yahoo! Groups Irish Blogs mailing list, I broke the news that Cloudlands has been removed from the aggregator irishblogs.ie. I believe that I’m the first person to be removed, and I wish I could say that it was for a legitimate reason (e.g. my blog content being too controversial), but instead it seems to be because I run rival site Planet Of The Blogs:
Interesting development, I just noticed that my blog has been dropped from irishblogs.ie.
I think I’ve been fair in my treatment of them in the past, even linking to irishblogs.ie from Planet Of The Blogs.
I was in Dublin for some meetings with SFI and the IDA related to DERI, and coincidentally there was a BSD Users Group of Ireland (BUGI) meetup that same evening, so met with some of the IRC regulars (irlZaphod, Sniper, svan) and had some fun discussions.
I’ve just added some money to my e-wallet at newsstand.com, and purchased a few of today’s newspapers there. I like to keep up with the news stateside (the main offline option here is the quite dilute USA Today), and rather than having to travel on a plane or pick up out-of-date papers from Eason or Tower Records, I now have in my hand copies of the latest Sacramento Bee and Washington Times. The emigrants have been doing this for years with de paper, IT, Indo and sundays all available on the web (the Sunday Tribune is on the aforementioned newsstand.com). But sometimes you don’t have to be an emigrant to enjoy news from remote localities…
Irma strikes warning note to music file sharers
Jamie Smyth
Net Results: “This is not me over reacting and being a knob. DO NOT BUY ANY CD. None, not even one. When enough people do this then they will learn that we decide what’s fair.”
This is the defiant message for the Irish Recorded Music Association (Irma) posted on www.boards.ie, the Irish online bulletin board, this week by a member who goes by the colourful title, 4Xcut.
Scores of other messages on the website cannot be printed in a family newspaper. However, it is clear that Irma’s assault on illegal “uploaders” of music has focused minds among the tens of thousands of people using file-sharing networks to swap music tracks.
Continue reading ‘Irish Times Quotes boards.ie User in Irma Article’
What’s the best car number plate you’ve seen? Last week, I saw before me, OSMOSIS - then I realised it was 05-MO-515, written in squarish type…
Didn’t get around to blogging this since the weekend, but I met up with a delegation from the Irish blog community at Dublin’s IFC on Saturday afternoon. Many thanks to Bernie Goldbach for organising the event, as I think it was useful from both a technical and non-technical point of view. Discussions included methods for bloggers to protect themselves, how should blogs be categorised on aggregator sites like POTB, ways to increase the visibility of Irish blogs, etc. Attendees were (name - blog or organisation): Bernie Goldbach - Irish Eyes; Martin Feeney - Frog Brothers; Maura McHugh - Babblogue; David Stewart - Science Friction; Dan King - boards.ie; John Breslin - Me!; Bernard Tyers - Running With Bulls; Treasa - Winds And Breezes; Ciaran - Indymedia; Markham Nolan - Year Of The Big Drought; MacDara Conroy - Original Miscellanea And Textual Repository; Sean McGrath - Propylon; Anthony - Indymedia; Fergal McKay - Loop Di Loop.
On Saturday night, we had a boards.ie directors’ meeting, to discuss future directions and current crises. I think this has motivated us to put more effort into the site, as a new “Help Desk” system has been implemented to help us keep on top of user issues, and a PHP accelerator / cacher has been installed to deal with server slowdowns. Most of the night focussed on company issues which I won’t go into here.
Spent some hours on the train at the weekend so it gave me some time to update my radio show playlists for the Ambient Zone. I must find an easier / more efficient way to manage this though, because writing songs down on paper / transcribing to Excel / exporting to CSV / importing to phpMyAdmin is just too laborious. Perhaps some automatic generation of metadata from an M3U playlist would be better. Ideally it’d be nice to have a separate AudioScrobbler account tied in to the studio somehow Anyway, here’s last week’s playlist.
Thanks for the article text Bernie. That’s the quickest I’ve managed to get from site design (1st April) to press!
In the Sunday Tribune, Joe Bloggs asks, “Who is the Blogsphere?”
Forget about that, that’s a foreign word. Given the week that’s in it, there’s no suggestion of a Rule 42 for Irish blogs, but some name changes have been mooted in discussions about the two competing collectors of posts from Irishblogs, Irishblogs.ie and www.PlanetOfTheBlogs.com.
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A hardcopy of this article found its way to me, it’s a bit old (17 March) but still interesting: Seven Implications of Yahoo! 360. That reminds me to get invited to this again, I mustn’t have followed up an invite.
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