I’ve created a podcasts section on my Ambient Zone site.
I hope to add many podcasts there from the electronica show on Galway’s Flirt FM. As I don’t know yet how to make the site “podsafe”, I’ve decided to try and only use freely-available music (i.e. royalty free) on shows that will be made public in this podcasts section.
To start off with, I’m doing a special featuring music from the online record label (or “netlabel”) Monotonik. Enjoy!
Got a phone call to say that boards.ie was mentioned on RTE Radio 1’s Today with Pat Kenny in relation to a discussion about Irish Psychics Live on our forums (Pat did an ‘exposé’ about them the previous Friday). Was funny to hear Pat reading out some comments from members of our site…
Pat, if by some chance you’re reading this, I have to confess that I’m not you’re biggest fan; in fact, I’d go so far as to say that I hate your TV show interviews - but I really enjoyed hearing you laying in to the Irish Psychics Live guy and debunking his ’service’ last week. The Irish Skeptics Society are proud of you too!
(Here’s an audio snippet of today’s show. Link to the discussion thread in question.)
Updated my RSS 1.0 export for vBJournal on vBulletin 3.5.
I’ve updated both the vBFOAF RDF metadata producer and vBFriends social network browser extensions for vBulletin 3.5.
This has been useful because I’ve learned a bit about how the new “hook” system works in vBulletin 3.5, and can use this for my next two add-ons that I’m planning to implement next week: a forum post tagger (using Freetag) and a SIOC RDF metadata exporter (which will also export these tags).
One of the most exciting integrations I’ve seen: Drupal and vBulletin (vBulletin.org Forum - vB Drupal: Community Plumbing (CMS + Blogs)).
I was surprised and delighted that I won the IIA Net Visionary award for social contribution on Thursday!
I wanted to say thanks (but didn’t get the chance to) to my colleagues at the DERI research institute at NUI Galway, my co-administrators at boards.ie and all the moderating team who do an amazing job, those who’ve helped with both Planet of the Blogs and latest venture Wiki Ireland, my family and friends, and finally to all those who voted online as well as the awards jury.
I also wanted to say that fellow nominees Concern deserve your support, whether you give a regular donation or just a one-off present of a goat or chicken or whatever through their website this Christmas - please do it!
Had a great night, met people I hadn’t seen in seven or eight years, my voice went towards the end and was gone for most of Friday unfortunately but hopefully a relaxing weekend will kill off this flu!
Forgot to mention this, but Michele Neylon has set up YAIBA (yet another Irish blogs aggregator ;)) at Planet.IrishBlogs.info. POTB and IrishBlogs.ie have some competition! And that’s good to keep us on our toes…
Been in bed / on the couch for most of the past two days with the flu. Thank Yahweh for broadband and wireless access points.
Heading to Dublin tomorrow morning for the IIA Net Visionary event. Should be a good night, looking forward to meeting lots of people and putting faces to names.
I saw on the Y! Groups irishblogs mailing list today that the IrishBlogs.ie site has been revamped. I checked in this morning to find some WordPress error on the site, so at least now I know how it is being powered 
Of course, using WordPress as an aggregator is cool because now they have some RDF, RSS and Atom feeds.
Quoting from my post on boards.ie, really enjoyed the Novembeers on Saturday night in Dublin.
Had a great night, I’d say it was the best Boards Beers I’ve attended so far, as I got to meet around 90% of you and hopefully learned half of your names
Well, maybe a bit more than that…
I won’t repeat the rollcall as it’s all above or in the other thread but on behalf of the team I appreciate the turnout (as November isn’t really the best time of year for such things and accommodation was pretty hard to come by what with the NZ game etc. etc.) and I was surprised by how many people were actually there (70+?)…
Favourite photos so far:
Thanks also for the free drinks
More: November Boards Beers - 6pm Sat 12th Nov - White Horse Inn, Dublin - boards.ie/vbulletin
I think it is fair to say that EirtaKon 2005 was an amazing event, and that the numbers that attended far exceeded any expectations that Art_Wolf, CuLT and crew may have had in mind…
There were over 170 people there on Saturday alone, and this is for something that wasn’t even advertised that much (mostly viral word-of-mouth information). The guys did an amazing job at the event organisation, from programmes to bags to badges to t-shirts - kudos to the EirtaKon 2005 team!
For my part, I only got to attend for a few hours on Sunday, but Pazuzu won the anime.ie slogan competition for an Eva-03 model and CuLT won a poster with my raffle tickets
So again, well done, and the stage is set for an even bigger event in 2006!
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