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“A funny thing happened on the way to the forum”: Article in Indo about 10 years of boards.ie

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20080214a.png Irish Independent > Business > Technology > A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
After 10 years, John Breslin’s online forum on everything from personal relationships to motors and mustard, boards.ie, is still blazing a trail

By Marie Boran
Thursday February 14 2008

Want to know where you can buy the cheapest digital camera, or how to go about claiming rent relief, or maybe if buying cowboy boots would be a fashion disaster?

The world relies on Google but the Irish have boards.ie. On this online bulletin board no question is too trivial or too bizarre and with an average 900,000 visitors to the site every month, there are plenty of answers on offer.

It is hard to believe that a decade ago, on 12 February, 1998, boards.ie founder John Breslin wrote expectantly: “The first of many messages, I hope.”

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Of course, there are four other people who have made boards.ie possible: Tom Murphy, Dan King, Gerry Shanahan, and Jerry Connolly. Without them and our amazing team of voluntary moderators, I doubt boards.ie would even exist today. Original questions and answers follow.

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An interesting talk by Mike Brodie…

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on 23/1/2008
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…was given at VLDB 2007 recently. Mike (chief scientist with Verizon Services Operations, and chair of the DERI advisory board) also gave this talk internally during his visit to DERI on Monday.

You can view the slides and the introductory video in high or low quality. There are some interesting figures on database growth, web usage and user-generated content in the slides / videos.

Interviewed for SemanticWeb.com

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on 21/1/2008
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You can read an interview I did recently with Jupiter Media’s Jennifer Zaino for SemanticWeb.com about SIOC.

The title of the article is SIOC-ing the Semantic Web.

Interviewed on Morning Ireland last week

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on 3/1/2008
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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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on 3/1/2008
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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!

Congrats to Eyal on his PhD defense

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on 4/12/2007
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20071204a.png Eyal Oren successfully defended his PhD at DERI, NUI Galway last week. I’d again like to say well done to Eyal, and since he was such a great person to work with, I know his new colleagues at VU Amsterdam will benefit greatly from his expertise and love of learning.

I first met Eyal when I arrived in DERI in early 2004 and I was talking at lunch about local access to IEEE papers that we’d secured. He had some tips on how to access related resources, and continued to be a source of knowledge that we will now miss in the Institute. The best of luck to you Dr. Oren.

Been a busy B…

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on 3/9/2007
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…for the past few months, hence the lack of regular blog entries. Most of my summer has been taken up with proposal writing for research funding here at DERI, the first of which finished up around the end of the June and the second ran from then until the end of August, so unfortunately I haven’t had time for much else…

Anyway, here are some updates about future social media / social software activities I’m involved in:

SIOC is a W3C Submission

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on 1/8/2007
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I am happy to announce that SIOC is now a W3C Member Submission, as mentioned today on the W3C SW blog.

The SIOC Ontology Submission is composed of:

  1. SIOC Core Ontology Specification
  2. SIOC Ontology: Applications and Implementation Status
  3. SIOC Ontology: Related Ontologies and RDF Vocabularies
  4. Snapshots of Namespace Documents

Thanks to Uldis for all his work, and to all our authors, contributors and supporters! More information about SIOC is available from sioc-project.org. Our SIOC work in DERI, NUI Galway is funded by Science Foundation Ireland.

Another Lord of the Rings link to NUI Galway

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on 30/6/2007
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An interesting comment by NUI Galway President Iggy Ó Muircheartaigh at last week’s graduation (in reference to Enya’s music for the Lord of the Rings): he said that JRR Tolkien was an external examiner for the University in the 1950s.

“Podcasting: What’s New?” talk by Conn Ó Muíneacháin at DERI today

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on 13/3/2007
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Conn gave a great talk and question / answer session at DERI, NUI Galway this morning about podcasting and his experiences producing both “An tImeall” and “An Líonra Sóisialta”.

My Digital Media students recorded a video of his talk - due to some upcoming exams, it will probably be about two weeks before they can edit / upload a video podcast of the event. Conn also captured an audio recording of the talk, so maybe there can be an upload race :)