Irish Blogs: Irish Blogs and Bloggers
Nice move by irishblogs.ie, a directory is a great idea.
But why does it say irishblogs.com? 
Welcome to IrishBlogs.com
We are a directory of blogs of Irish content or of Irish interest. Our directory is not solely for Irish people but for anyone all over the world who may have a Irish flavoured blog. You don’t have to be Irish to blog about Ireland.
Back from our DERI offsite, had no internet for the week so sorting through 2900 e-mails. But it could be worse
After logging on using the Galway Airport free wireless access two hours ago, I’m now making use of the Dublin Airport service. Very handy. Tomorrow I’m off to the DERI offsite in Crete, which should be interesting. More as I find hotspots…
I guess I’ve had a web page for about 10 years now, as I set one up when I was a postgrad in 1995. At that time, I remember getting some e-mails from namesakes, fascinated that they had found another John Breslin on the web. Over the years, this has continued, and even today, I got a message from someone who’s friend has the same name:
you have the same name as my friend john breslin
byebye
I’m fascinated too, but in a slightly different way…
Semantic Bits: Bloggers Unveiled
I’ll be chairing this talk tomorrow, so if you want to find out more about blogging, the details are as follows:
Date, Time: 18 May 2005, 8:00 PM
Location: Menlo Park Hotel
Speaker: Ina O’Murchu, DERI, NUI Galway
irishblogs.org | Irish Blogs. Organised.
Started another site for free Irish blogs, because I wanted this one to be different: I’d like to allow people to organise their posts by category (using taxonomies) or tag (using folksonomies).
I’ve started the taxonomy, which is a hybrid of Yahoo! Directory and the Open Directory Project, but I’ll add the new folksonomy module for Drupal (backported from 4.7 to 4.6) later on. I hope to enrole some taxonomy editors from the irishblogs mailing list too.
BTW there’s a good article on Drupal in this month’s Linux Magazine, and I’m happy to see that the latest release of Drupal (4.6 from last month) has PHP5 support.
From galwayadvertiser.ie/dws/story.tpl?inc=2005/05/12/news/59770.html by Una Sinnott:
It has been dubbed the journalism of the 21st century and has brought eye-witness accounts of wars and atrocities to an online audience of millions, but weblogging, or blogging as it is popularly known, is just as useful for keeping in touch with people in your neighbourhood and finding someone to car pool with.
Continue reading ‘Galway Advertiser: Blogging - Power to the People’
From seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/archives/2005_05_08_seanmcgrath_archive.html:
I’m not the worlds greatest fan of applying very general, very abstract models to day-to-day problems.
That does not mean I am not a fan of that bedrock of knowledge representation : the humble triple (for example: subject,predicate,object).
I found myself wondering where on earth all the triples are out there in the real world of day-to-day IT, as opposed to the perfect but more abstract worlds of RDF/Topic Maps/HyTime etc?
Then it hit me.
Spreadsheets:-) Think about it. Row 1 cells - subject. Col 1 cells predicate. Other cells: objects…
Duh!
Just heard on the radio that LastMinute.com are being bought for something like 850 million by Travelocity. Couldn’t find it on /. or the Register but maybe it’s too new…
You can get more stories about Travelocity and LastMinute from Google News.
In related news, I went to LastMinute and laughed at their boss page - harks back to the old days of the boss screen in computer games.
Just noticed this in the Galway Advertiser today; it’s probably been long announced but now we have another flight destination from Galway: the Isle of Man with EuroManx.
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