Archive for January, 2008

Interviewed on Morning Ireland last week

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Along with Joe Zefran of rté.ie, John Waters from the Irish Times, former DCU student Deirdre Reynolds, Gráinne Barry of anotherfriend.com, and Dr. Siobhan Barry from Cluan Mhuire, I took part in a panel hosted by Richard Downes on RTÉ Radio 1’s “Morning Ireland” show last week to discuss the phenomenon of online social networking.

You can listen to the show using the RTÉ site’s real audio archive or via my MP3 recording from digital satellite (I’m on at 17m30s and 26m30s).

It was a very good year…

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…during which I created and taught a new course on Emerging Web Media (twice!); spoke on Today FM’s “The Last Word” about cyberstalking; hosted the first Drupal Ireland meetup; gave a short opening presentation at the first ExpertFinder workshop; guest blogged on the IIA blog; was nominated in the blog category of the Digital Media Awards; sold the Boards Group of sites; launched the UK boards site; spoke at MIT and met Tim Berners-Lee; organised the first WebCamp event on social networks; made the first SIOC exporter for phpBB; took part in the TalkTourism.ie launch; participated in a documentary about Bebo made by the Multime group; got a comment from Patrick Tilley on my blog; met Enya; went to BarCamp Belfast; co-edited the SIOC W3C Member Submission; spoke at the Digital Hub about social networks and gaming; was interviewed by Silicon Republic; launched SocialMedia.net; organised BarCamp Galway; was nominated for a Net Visionary award; gave a presentation on social networking for enterprise at a Fidelity / ITAG conference; wrote an article about the future of social networks with Stefan for Internet Computing; recorded some muppet extra voices for an Irish-language Sesame Street spinoff; went to ISWC 2007 and chaired the second ExpertFinder workshop there; attended Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo and met Tim O’Reilly; went to the blognation Japan launch; had a SIOC tutorial accepted for WWW2008; and spoke on RTÉ Radio 1’s “Morning Ireland” about social networks.

I am looking forward to the year ahead - between organising BlogTalk 2008 / WebCamp SNP, and giving tutorials and invited presentations at the World Wide Web Conference, the Semantic Technologies Conference and the Reasoning Web Summer School - it’s going to be an exciting 2008!